Re: ‘core-updates’ building!

[Mark H Weaver]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>>
>>> I went ahead and started an evaluation of the full package set for
>>> ‘core-updates’:
>>>
>>>   https://hydra.gnu.org/jobset/gnu/core-updates
>>>
>>> I think we should focus on fixing remaining build issues now.
>>
>> Almost(?) all of the builds on armhf failed because of an early
>> guile-2.2.2 build timing out after 1 hour of silence.
>>
>> I set the 'max-silent-time' property to 6 hours in the package bound to
>> 'guile-2.2' in (gnu packages guile), but maybe the same property needs
>> to be set elsewhere, e.g. in 'guile-2.2/fixed' and maybe some other
>> places?
>
> ‘guile-2.2/fixed’ is just an alias, so that shouldn’t be necessary.
>
> Could it be that there was a cached build failure for Guile 2.2 on ARM?

Well, it's an alias that overrides the 'properties' field to be
'((hidden? . #t)).

Also, when I built it from the command line on Hydra, I found that
--max-silent-time=21600 (6 hours) is apparently not long enough.  It
timed out after 6 hours of silence:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
  CCLD     guile
  GEN      guile-procedures.texi
make[3]: Leaving directory 
'/tmp/guix-build-guile-2.2.2.drv-0/guile-2.2.2/libguile'
make[2]: Leaving directory 
'/tmp/guix-build-guile-2.2.2.drv-0/guile-2.2.2/libguile'
Making all in bootstrap
make[2]: Entering directory 
'/tmp/guix-build-guile-2.2.2.drv-0/guile-2.2.2/bootstrap'
  BOOTSTRAP GUILEC ice-9/eval.go
wrote `ice-9/eval.go'
  BOOTSTRAP GUILEC ice-9/psyntax-pp.go
  BOOTSTRAP GUILEC language/cps/intmap.go
  BOOTSTRAP GUILEC language/cps/utils.go
  BOOTSTRAP GUILEC language/cps/intset.go
building of `/gnu/store/2gqf0cy35yxpg3hhycj6s2ih66vgd7wn-guile-2.2.2.drv' timed 
out after 21600 seconds of silence
@ build-failed /gnu/store/2gqf0cy35yxpg3hhycj6s2ih66vgd7wn-guile-2.2.2.drv - 
timeout
derivation '/gnu/store/2gqf0cy35yxpg3hhycj6s2ih66vgd7wn-guile-2.2.2.drv' 
offloaded to 'hydra-slave1.netris.org' failed: build of 
`/gnu/store/2gqf0cy35yxpg3hhycj6s2ih66vgd7wn-guile-2.2.2.drv' failed

Some deprecated features have been used.  Set the environment
variable GUILE_WARN_DEPRECATED to "detailed" and rerun the
program to get more information.  Set it to "no" to suppress
this message.
@ build-failed /gnu/store/2gqf0cy35yxpg3hhycj6s2ih66vgd7wn-guile-2.2.2.drv - 1 
builder for `/gnu/store/2gqf0cy35yxpg3hhycj6s2ih66vgd7wn-guile-2.2.2.drv' 
failed with exit code 100
guix build: error: build failed: build of 
`/gnu/store/2gqf0cy35yxpg3hhycj6s2ih66vgd7wn-guile-2.2.2.drv' failed
address@hidden:~$ 
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I'll try again with --max-silent-time=36000 (10 hours).

       Mark