Carl Dong writes: Hello!
> Some more information from my debugging: > > 1. This error is reproducible even when I specify --cores=1, which is very > strange > 2. I have attached the full log to this email Diffing this with the build log from --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- guix build -e '(@@ (gnu packages commencement) binutils-mesboot0)' --log-file wget https://ci.guix.gnu.org/log/jfa9b78rdniyw7qilsmw3bh02x8x68ly-binutils-mesboot0-2.14 -O jfa9b78rdniyw7qilsmw3bh02x8x68ly-binutils-mesboot0-2.14.gz gunzip jfa9b78rdniyw7qilsmw3bh02x8x68ly-binutils-mesboot0-2.14.gz diff -u jfa9b78rdniyw7qilsmw3bh02x8x68ly-binutils-mesboot0-2.14 2020-10-10-binutils-mesboot0.log [..] @@ -5538,16 +5537,16 @@ checking for i386-unknown-linux-windres... no checking for windres... windres checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no -updating cache ./config.cache +not updating unwritable cache ./config.cache creating ./config.status creating Makefile [..] @@ -5558,7 +5557,7 @@ checking whether the C compiler (tcc -D __GLIBC_MINOR__=6 -g ) works... yes checking whether the C compiler (tcc -D __GLIBC_MINOR__=6 -g ) is a cross-compiler... no checking whether we are using GNU C... no -checking for ranlib... (cached) true +checking for ranlib... true checking for POSIXized ISC... no checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for working const... yes --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- config values do not get cached (why is config.cache unwritable?)...which seems to lead to a misdectected presence of lex: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- -@ build-succeeded /gnu/store/bz6xjpzlwf57m4bg3w5ihlq638sscx54-binutils-mesboot0-2.14.drv - -checking for flex... (cached) /tmp/guix-build-binutils-mesboot0-2.14.drv-0/binutils-2.14/missing flex -checking for flex... (cached) /tmp/guix-build-binutils-mesboot0-2.14.drv-0/binutils-2.14/missing flex -checking for yywrap in -ll... (cached) no -checking lex output file root... (cached) lex.yy [..] +checking for flex... no +checking for lex... no +./configure: line 4417: flex: command not found +checking for flex... lex +checking for yywrap in -ll... no +checking lex output file root... ./configure: line 4505: lex: command not found +configure: error: cannot find output from lex; giving up +make: *** [configure-ld] Error 1 --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- What is your build environment/version of guix you're using? It looks like some unreproducible bit is leaking in somewhere?? Greetings, Janneke -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <jann...@gnu.org> | GNU LilyPond http://lilypond.org Freelance IT http://JoyofSource.com | Avatar® http://AvatarAcademy.com
