Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> skribis: > Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.courno...@gmail.com> skribis: > >> I was surprised that: >> >> guix build fpc --system=armhf-linux >> >> would send me in a dead end without any word of caution, given that >> armhf-linux is *not* listed in the supported-systems field. >> >> We should at least warn near the beginning of the build, and remind of >> that fact at the end of the build in case of failure. > > I came up with the patches below. > > The first part forbids unsupported packages altogether in user-facing > commands: ‘guix install’, ‘guix shell’, etc. Until now, they’d just > start building things that were bound to fail. > > The second part adds a mere warning for ‘guix build’ (it does not repeat > it at the end, though).
I went ahead and pushed them: 0ca26437cb guix build: Warn when attempting to build an unsupported package. 5a57313918 profiles: 'profile-derivation' rejects unsupported packages. 0572737a62 packages: 'package-transitive-supported-systems' ignores '%current-target-system'. Ludo’.
