bug#63845: unbound evaluate-populate-directive variable error with guix shell -C --symlink

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:

> This appears to be a recent regression:
>
> $ LANG=C guix shell --container --symlink=/usr/bin/env=bin/env coreutils 
> ;;; Failed to autoload evaluate-populate-directive in (gnu build install):
> ;;; no code for module (gnu build install)
> Backtrace:
>           18 (primitive-load "/home/maxim/.config/guix/current/bin/g?")
> In guix/ui.scm:
>    2300:7 17 (run-guix . _)
>   2263:10 16 (run-guix-command _ . _)
> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>   1752:10 15 (with-exception-handler _ _ #:unwind? _ # _)
>   1752:10 14 (with-exception-handler _ _ #:unwind? _ # _)
> In guix/store.scm:
>    659:37 13 (thunk)
>    1298:8 12 (call-with-build-handler _ _)
>    1298:8 11 (call-with-build-handler #<procedure 7f2709325510 at g?> ?)
> In guix/status.scm:
>     839:4 10 (call-with-status-report _ _)
> In guix/scripts/environment.scm:
>   1152:11  9 (_)
> In guix/store.scm:
>   2168:25  8 (run-with-store #<store-connection 256.99 7f270924b4b0> ?)
> In guix/scripts/environment.scm:
>     864:8  7 (_ _)
> In gnu/build/linux-container.scm:
>    397:16  6 (call-with-container (#<<file-system> device: "none?> ?) ?)
>    265:16  5 (run-container _ _ (cgroup mnt pid ipc uts user net) _ # ?)
> In guix/scripts/environment.scm:
>    894:14  4 (_)
> In srfi/srfi-1.scm:
>     634:9  3 (for-each #<procedure 7f271a45bc90 at guix/scripts/env?> ?)
> In guix/scripts/environment.scm:
>    894:29  2 (_ (directory "/usr/bin"))
> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>   1685:16  1 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
>   1685:16  0 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
>
> ice-9/boot-9.scm:1685:16: In procedure raise-exception:
> error: evaluate-populate-directive: unbound variable

Fixed in 69dfdb7bd190a1562eb11555da6f556b222245d3.

The regression was introduced in
abdf812acc70d5424e51e2d6fb280bf08b087b68.

Thanks,
Ludo’.