Hi Felix, Ekaitz, On 26/09/24 21:26, Ekaitz Zarraga wrote:
Hi,On 2024-09-26 23:13, Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution. wrote:Hi, A piece of software of mine using the guile-build-system runs tests after the 'install' phase. A recent system update failed because there is no such phase.
Sounds like what happened during my last failed upgrade (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2024-09/msg00076.html).
Looking at the Guix source code, the 'install' phase never existed. Shouldn't every build system have that phase? Why did the same package definition work three months ago? Thanks for helping with this mystery! Kind regards FelixThe fast and simple answer is that the 'install phase is not mandatory. The build system defines which of the steps it uses and how, they don't need to have specific names.
Yeah, although that fact doesn't seem to be documented. Nor that, currently, if you modify the phases of a build system using, say, "(add-after 'install 'check check)", the "install" phase *must* exist, otherwise the module fails to compile. And that wasn't the case in previous versions of Guix.
So, maybe additional documentation might be necessary. I think the documentation is missing more information on how define custom build systems even (?).
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