Hello! Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> skribis:
> I documented the most common test errors, but there don’t seem to be any > quick fixes. Attached is a new patch based on yours. If this looks > good to you I’ll push it with you as the commit author and with a > “Co-authored-by: Ricardo Wurmus” line in the commit summary. Woow, congratulation, and a big thanks for taking the time to investigate the issues! > +++ b/gnu/packages/patches/elixir-disable-failing-tests.patch > @@ -0,0 +1,261 @@ > +Most of these tests fail for unknown reasons when run in the chroot > +environment of a Guix build process. > + > +Common failures are: > + > + * Mix.Shell.cmd() fails with error 130 Could it be that this method relies on /bin/sh? We have patches/substitutions for similar functions in libc, gawk, and Guile, for instance. > + * The git_repo fixture cannot be found > + * Communication with spawned processes fails with EPIPE It might be that processes are spawned with /bin/sh too, and thus fail instantly. Cheers, Ludo’.
