Re: Merging core-updates?

[Julien Lepiller]

Le Sun, 12 Feb 2023 12:06:14 +0100,
Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> a écrit :

> Hello,
> 
> Am Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 10:05:40AM +0100 schrieb Julien Lepiller:
> > As discussed at Guix Days before Fosdem, we haven't merged
> > core-updates in a very long time. I'd volunteer to lead this
> > effort, but I don't know what steps I should follow. Do we have
> > some documentation about that?  
> 
> I volunteer to follow your lead, but also have no clue what is
> actually expected.
> 
> With Chris's help, I scheduled an evaluation on the build coordinator,
> which has not finished yet, so there is not yet anything to see at
>    
> http://data.qa.guix.gnu.org/gnu/store/bjyfp7bhb9j25sw62nrkqjiivnzjxija-mpc-1.3.1.drv
> But if you click down the dependency tree, some of them have been
> built. And the first one already failed:
>    
> http://data.qa.guix.gnu.org/gnu/store/0p0zs4gv8vg7rny25ki1szv4c7yk9zzb-patch-mesboot-2.5.9.drv
> With a strange error:
> starting phase `build'
> make: stat:Makefile: sterror: unknown error
> make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
> error: in phase 'build': uncaught exception:
> srfi-34 #<condition &invoke-error [program: "make" arguments: ()
> exit-status: 2 term-signal: #f stop-signal: #f] 1439cc0> phase
> `build' failed after 0.0 seconds command "make" failed with status 2
> Having failed three times in a row, this does not look like a
> transient error.
> 
> I also reconfigured bayfront to do more builds itself.
> 
> Actually I am wondering whether the first step of killing these
> untamed non-feature branches would not be to build and merge staging?
> It is based on master, supposed to contain only medium sized changes,
> but which I suspect end up being a world-rebuilding cluster of
> changes.
> 
> Andreas
> 

I just tried to build mpc on my machine, from core-updates. I get the
same derivation as the one shown on the data service, and it built
fine. Maybe there's something wrong with the machines behind bordeaux?
I probably got substitutes from berlin, for gcc and friends (though I
built gmp, mpfr and mpc).