I tried guix build bootstrap-tarballs and it seems to have worked the whole way until then end, (though I thought I saw warnings about exit and abort being undefined) leaving the following on the screen:
----8<--------------------------------------------------->8---- PASS: lib/tests/scaffold/a0-math-divide-signed-negative.c PASS: lib/tests/scaffold/a1-global-no-align.c PASS: lib/tests/scaffold/a1-global-no-clobber.c ============================================================================ Testsuite summary for GNU Mes ============================================================================ # TOTAL: 191 # PASS: 185 # SKIP: 0 # XFAIL: 6 # FAIL: 0 # XPASS: 0 # ERROR: 0 ============================================================================ phase `check' succeeded after 384.4 seconds starting phase `install' GNUmakefile:159: skipping info: no makeinfo GNUmakefile:165: skipping man: no help2man GNUmakefile:192: info: graphvis missing: no images GNUmakefile:286: update-hash: no guix /gnu/store/4yyw7brvww6dk9cwwvdq724qdfz2zn0v-bash-minimal-4.4.23/bin/bash install.sh phase `install' succeeded after 0.1 seconds starting phase `strip-install' Backtrace: 6 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/dk0ywzl09zqcdvln8j7l4sla61h?") In ice-9/eval.scm: 191:35 5 (_ _) In srfi/srfi-1.scm: 863:16 4 (every1 #<procedure 82648e0 at /gnu/store/qjikgbmjfn61?> ?) In /gnu/store/qjikgbmjfn618665s8jnn4r3zg5xzf8c-module-import/guix/build/gnu-build-system.scm: 799:28 3 (_ _) In ice-9/eval.scm: 619:8 2 (_ #(#(#(#(#<directory (guile-user) 817e910>) (?)) #) #)) In /gnu/store/qjikgbmjfn618665s8jnn4r3zg5xzf8c-module-import/guix/build/utils.scm: 340:23 1 (delete-file-recursively "/gnu/store/xjbkz6645qccnvfkm?" ?) In unknown file: 0 (lstat "/gnu/store/xjbkz6645qccnvfkmbc4wsvh7lffg2jn-mes?") ERROR: In procedure lstat: In procedure lstat: No such file or directory: "/gnu/store/xjbkz6645qccnvfkmbc4wsvh7lffg2jn-mes-minimal-0.20/share/mes/scaffold" builder for `/gnu/store/w8y538fhxr9d9sm6653jq5xsl89q0aqk-mes-minimal-0.20.drv' failed with exit code 1 build of /gnu/store/w8y538fhxr9d9sm6653jq5xsl89q0aqk-mes-minimal-0.20.drv failed View build log at '/var/log/guix/drvs/w8/y538fhxr9d9sm6653jq5xsl89q0aqk-mes-minimal-0.20.drv.bz2'. cannot build derivation `/gnu/store/xccfsbs29dhimindp133c172nskyjx72-mes-minimal-stripped-0.20.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built cannot build derivation `/gnu/store/pjrx07gwqlh6di8in8f401jqghwriqx6-mes-minimal-stripped-tarball-0.20.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built cannot build derivation `/gnu/store/fqcvn41c0ja1ml7hl1pbbaadgbm29xyd-bootstrap-tarballs-0.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built guix build: error: build of `/gnu/store/fqcvn41c0ja1ml7hl1pbbaadgbm29xyd-bootstrap-tarballs-0.drv' failed [21:39 ~/ug/test]$ su -c 'setterm -file guix-build-bootstrap-tarballs.txt -dump 1' ----8<--------------------------------------------------->8---- Looking in /gnu: ----8<--------------------------------------------------->8---- [22:25 ~/ug/test]$ find /gnu -iname '*mes-minimal*' > find-mes-minimal.txt ... [22:27 ~/ug/test]$ less find-mes-minimal.txt /gnu/store/xjbkz6645qccnvfkmbc4wsvh7lffg2jn-mes-minimal-0.20.lock /gnu/store/dk0ywzl09zqcdvln8j7l4sla61h9zwra-mes-minimal-0.20-guile-builder /gnu/store/w8y538fhxr9d9sm6653jq5xsl89q0aqk-mes-minimal-0.20.drv /gnu/store/rpcmp8ip1vwjzbw60ihq686zs7m3wiak-mes-minimal-stripped-0.20-guile-builder /gnu/store/xccfsbs29dhimindp133c172nskyjx72-mes-minimal-stripped-0.20.drv /gnu/store/arn6dk33rlwpv20kjc84x0gkmii4hhx6-mes-minimal-stripped-tarball-0.20-guile-builder /gnu/store/pjrx07gwqlh6di8in8f401jqghwriqx6-mes-minimal-stripped-tarball-0.20.drv /gnu/store/xjbkz6645qccnvfkmbc4wsvh7lffg2jn-mes-minimal-0.20 ----8<--------------------------------------------------->8---- guix describe ----8<--------------------------------------------------->8---- Generation 13 Sep 13 2019 18:20:16 (current) guix 6e377b8 repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git branch: master commit: 6e377b88930226f3f74ba9fac74d80c36494d9be ----8<--------------------------------------------------->8---- ----8<--------------------------------------------------->8---- [23:24 ~/ug/test]$ readlink $(find /gnu -iname '*bootstrap*tarballs-0')/*|xargs file /gnu/store/ciprl3dvgxnh290jfxwiyybn5g9zm525-binutils-static-stripped-tarball-2.31.1/binutils-static-stripped-2.31.1-x86_64-linux.tar.xz: XZ compressed data /gnu/store/ylkls2zc2144bi5k2zr73g4zfpkn8w7r-gcc-stripped-tarball-5.5.0/gcc-stripped-5.5.0-x86_64-linux.tar.xz: XZ compressed data /gnu/store/36hi46xywgskl35f3n94m6f5lvalxdwr-glibc-stripped-tarball-2.28/glibc-stripped-2.28-x86_64-linux.tar.xz: XZ compressed data /gnu/store/7wnpikfng5kdg7bnjd49dmmgswlsfd5c-guile-static-stripped-tarball-2.2.4/guile-static-stripped-2.2.4-x86_64-linux.tar.xz: XZ compressed data /gnu/store/xy17z7ichfr1gdpw53cqpd3b3zzfzmc7-static-binaries-tarball-0/static-binaries-0-x86_64-linux.tar.xz: XZ compressed data [23:24 ~/ug/test]$ [23:24 ~/ug/test]$ readlink $(find /gnu -iname '*bootstrap*tarballs-0')/*|xargs lsc ~/ug/test: 1,819,060 1969-12-31 16:00:01 [f] /gnu/store/36hi46xywgskl35f3n94m6f5lvalxdwr-glibc-stripped-tarball-2.28/glibc-stripped-2.28-x86_64-linux.tar.xz 5,930,448 1969-12-31 16:00:01 [f] /gnu/store/7wnpikfng5kdg7bnjd49dmmgswlsfd5c-guile-static-stripped-tarball-2.2.4/guile-static-stripped-2.2.4-x86_64-l inux.tar.xz 2,157,516 1969-12-31 16:00:01 [f] /gnu/store/ciprl3dvgxnh290jfxwiyybn5g9zm525-binutils-static-stripped-tarball-2.31.1/binutils-static-stripped-2.31.1- x86_64-linux.tar.xz 6,099,348 1969-12-31 16:00:01 [f] /gnu/store/xy17z7ichfr1gdpw53cqpd3b3zzfzmc7-static-binaries-tarball-0/static-binaries-0-x86_64-linux.tar.xz 18,737,136 1969-12-31 16:00:01 [f] /gnu/store/ylkls2zc2144bi5k2zr73g4zfpkn8w7r-gcc-stripped-tarball-5.5.0/gcc-stripped-5.5.0-x86_64-linux.tar.xz ----8<--------------------------------------------------->8---- Looks like the tarballs did wind up in store... I just happened to be reading info guix and thought I'd try that simple command, guix build bootstrap-tarballs, not realizing how long it would take :-) FWIW, the only thing I could find relevant to scaffold was in an ocaml thing: guix package -s scaffold ----8<--------------------------------------------------->8---- name: ocaml-ppx-compare version: 0.11.1 outputs: out systems: x86_64-linux i686-linux armhf-linux aarch64-linux mips64el-linux dependencies: ocaml-base@0.11.1 ocaml-migrate-parsetree@1.4.0 + ocaml-ppxlib@0.6.0 location: gnu/packages/ocaml.scm:4076:2 homepage: https://github.com/janestreet/ppx_compare license: ASL 2.0 synopsis: Generation of comparison functions from types description: Generation of fast comparison functions from type expressions and + definitions. Ppx_compare is a ppx rewriter that derives comparison functions + from type representations. The scaffolded functions are usually much faster + than ocaml's Pervasives.compare. Scaffolding functions also gives you more + flexibility by allowing you to override them for a specific type and more + safety by making sure that you only compare comparable values. relevance: 4 ----8<--------------------------------------------------->8---- HTH in some way. Regards, Bengt Richter