Re: 02/02: services: Add Gitolite.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Christopher Baines <address@hidden> skribis:

> Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

>>> +(define-gexp-compiler (gitolite-rc-file-compiler
>>> +                       (file <gitolite-rc-file>) system target)
>>> +  (match file
>>> +    (($ <gitolite-rc-file> umask git-config-keys roles enable)
>>> +     (apply text-file* "gitolite.rc"
>>> +      `("%RC = (\n"
>>> +        "    UMASK => " ,(format #f "~4,'0o" umask) ",\n"

[...]

>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>>            0 (simple-format #f "~4,'0o" 63)
>>
>> ERROR: In procedure simple-format:
>> In procedure simple-format: FORMAT: Unsupported format option ~4 - use 
>> (ice-9 format) instead
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

[...]

> It sounds to me like adding #:use-modules (ice-9 format) to (gnu
> services version-control) would fix this, but I'll wait until I can
> reproduce the failure before re-adding the service.

Yes, adding #:use-module (ice-9 format) will fix the problem.

You should be able to reproduce it by running “make hydra-jobs”.

As to why you can’t necessarily reproduce it…  It turns out that loading
(ice-9 format) has the effect of set!ting the global ‘format’ binding.
So if some unrelated piece of code loads (ice-9 format), you don’t have
any problems; but if that doesn’t happen, you get the error.

This terrible behavior has been in Guile forever and nobody has dared
changing it so far.  :-)  The -Wformat warning tries hard to diagnose
the issue though.

HTH!

Ludo’.