Hi Ludo, > From: Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> > Subject: Re: bug#51801: No warning when attempting to build unsupported > system with --system > To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.courno...@gmail.com> > Cc: 51801-d...@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2022 14:18:02 +0100 (1 day, 13 hours, 27 minutes ago) > > 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'.
Thank you! Maxim
