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bug#56503: Poor error message on missing file using substitute*
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#56503: Poor error message on missing file using substitute* |
Date: |
Mon, 18 Jul 2022 14:57:08 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Daniel Meißner <daniel.meissner-i4k@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> skribis:
> It prints:
>
> #<&compound-exception components: (#<&external-error> #<&origin origin:
> "mkstemp"> #<&message message: "~A"> #<&irritants irritants: ("Datei oder
> Verzeichnis nicht gefunden")> #<&exception-with-kind-and-args kind:
> system-error args: ("mkstemp" "~A" ("Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden")
> (2))>)>
>
> So maybe this is a bug in Guile? Shouldn’t ‘mkstemp!’ list the path in
> the irritants?
Yes, it should, but it’s a change that’s probably not safe to do within
a Guile stable series.
For the record, (guix ui) works around this for selected procedures—look
for ‘error-reporting-wrapper’. These are not used (and cannot be used)
in (guix build utils) though.
Ludo’.