Re: guile-emacs build failure

[Christopher Allan Webber]

Danny Milosavljevic writes:

> $ ./pre-inst-env guix package -i guile-emacs
> ...
> configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
> See `config.log' for more details
> phase `configure' failed after 0.4 seconds
> builder for 
> `/gnu/store/izc4h0kd4pxh65v7yirshhprv5m13xnq-guile-emacs-20150512.41120e0.drv'
>  failed with exit code 1
> cannot build derivation 
> `/gnu/store/r6qr621r0y3y7897wg87f3j315r2qs6l-profile.drv': 1 dependencies 
> couldn't be built
> guix package: error: build failed: build of 
> `/gnu/store/r6qr621r0y3y7897wg87f3j315r2qs6l-profile.drv' failed
> $ ./pre-inst-env guix environment guile-emacs
> $ cd .........
> $ cp -r /gnu/store/jlkhs6ypnlvbzl4jassp871v0z86199y-git-checkout .
> $ chmod -R +w .
> $ ./autogen.sh
> $ ./configure
> checking whether the C compiler works... no
> configure: error: in 
> `/home/dannym/g/jlkhs6ypnlvbzl4jassp871v0z86199y-git-checkout':
> configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
> $ ld
> Throw without catch before boot:
> Throw to key misc-error with args ("make_objcode_from_file" "bad header on 
> object file: ~s" ("\x7fELF\x02\x01\x01�\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00") 
> #f)Aborting.
> Aborted
> $ which ld
> /gnu/store/7hjv46s5apn1cwj6wb7i21gna77bwq92-profile/bin/ld
> lrwxrwxrwx 7 root guixbuild 63 Jan  1  1970 
> /gnu/store/7hjv46s5apn1cwj6wb7i21gna77bwq92-profile/bin/ld -> 
> /gnu/store/zzahbk6ld5ir48g11qaqglik11p32w8x-ld-wrapper-0/bin/ld
> $ strace ld
> ...
> open("/gnu/store/7hjv46s5apn1cwj6wb7i21gna77bwq92-profile/lib/guile/2.2/ccache/ice-9/eval.go",
>  O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 6
> fstat(6, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=56869, ...}) = 0
> mmap(NULL, 56869, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 6, 0) = 0x7f17265b3000
> close(6)                                = 0
> munmap(0x7f17265b3000, 56869)           = 0
> write(2, "Throw without catch before boot:"..., 33Throw without catch before 
> boot:
> $ file 
> /gnu/store/7hjv46s5apn1cwj6wb7i21gna77bwq92-profile/lib/guile/2.2/ccache/ice-9/eval.go
> /gnu/store/7hjv46s5apn1cwj6wb7i21gna77bwq92-profile/lib/guile/2.2/ccache/ice-9/eval.go:
>  ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, no machine, version 1, dynamically linked, not 
> stripped
>
> (Same for guile-wm when I install guile-for-guile-emacs, actually. But 
> guile-wm works after I uninstall guile-for-guile-emacs)

You shouldn't install guile-for-guile-emacs in your profile, just
install guile-emacs itself.

I'm not sure why guile-emacs stopped working though...