Chris Marusich <cmmarus...@gmail.com> skribis: > If you try to build Guile 3 without substitutes using any recent version > of Guix, it can frequently fail. I had to try about 12 times > in a row before it succeeded. The failure simply said "FAIL: > check-guile" - I didn't save the build logs, which were lost once the > build succeeded. If anyone is interested in debugging, it should be > easy to reproduce. Just do this: > > - Run Guix in a 1-core VM or a similarly slow x86_64-linux system. > > - Try to build any recent version of Guile 3 using any recent version of > Guix. > > I've seen the failures happen for Guile 3.0.2 and Guile 3.0.4. I > observed this on a 1-core VM, so perhaps a slow system exacerbates this > bug. This can make running "guix pull" without substitutes tedious, > since you have to manually retry many times.
I don’t think that applies to 3.0.9, or at least I haven’t seen any such failures or reports thereof. Closing! Ludo’.
