bug#28144: info-dir ERROR: no code for module (guix build utils)

[Ludovic Courtès]

Heya,

Christopher Baines <address@hidden> skribis:

> I've had the following issue a few times now, it seems that somehow,
> the info-dir builder can be incorrectly generated, without the usual
> module import stuff.
>
> The most recent time this occurred, I worked around this by finding the
> guix package in the store which I thought was being used at the time,
> and explicitly garbage collected it (guix gc -d ...). I then rebuilt
> it, and this seemed to work around the problem. I was using the same
> guix package, pinned to an revision in a git repository.
>
>
> The builder starts with:
>
>   (begin (use-modules (guix build utils)
>
>
> This is the error which you get:
>
> The following derivations will be built:
>    /gnu/store/8qi10kwz4ghabdj5p7s252z11snvhhgf-profile.drv
>    /gnu/store/0jxiph2hvmvakcj6gkz9d00a8ncma903-info-dir.drv

Could you check if the .drv has the right -L and -C flags for guile?

What commit was this on?

Looking at (guix profiles), what you describe Cannot Happen™ because
there’s a correct ‘with-imported-modules’ form there.

Thanks,
Ludo’.