bug#19630: error message when referencing non-existing output not helpful

2015-01-19 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
When a package recipe specifies as input a non-existing output of a package, the build process fails with a rather unhelpful late error message. The following is the output of building a package that depends on the "bin" output of libtool, which has since been removed. ~ [rwurmus@workstation:

bug#19618: ftp 404

2015-01-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Vince Zd skribis: > Thanks. I was confused because guix and gnu-guix are on the same download > page (and I didn't scroll down so I didn't see the guix package), and I was > drawn to my mistake because of the screenshot of the guix-based > distribution. “Guix” and “GNU Guix” really refer to the

bug#19618: ftp 404

2015-01-19 Thread Vince Zd
Thanks. I was confused because guix and gnu-guix are on the same download page (and I didn't scroll down so I didn't see the guix package), and I was drawn to my mistake because of the screenshot of the guix-based distribution. 2015-01-17 11:44 GMT+01:00 Ludovic Courtès : > Vince Zd skribis: >