Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add a generalized `wrap-language-programs`

[Alex Sassmannshausen]

Fwiw, I have now succeeded at building offlineimap, and as a result, it
seems youtube-dl also was able to be built easily (presumably because
they share a great number of dependencies).

In both cases, the programs work fine with the generalized patch.

Alex

Alex Sassmannshausen writes:

> Hello
>
>> You may try e.g. scons, pip, sphinx, or youtube-dl.
>
> Hartmut was kind enough to suggest the above python applications to test
> this `wrap-language-programs` patch set against, however I have been
> stuck in "Rebuild the world"-hell for the last day and a half setting up
> testcases.
>
> I end up feeling a bit desesperated and incompetent, as I'm sure it's
> not supposed to be this hard to create an appropriate test scenario here
> — so I was wondering whether anyone has any pointers in avoiding
> constantly rebuilding the world?
>
> For details:
> - I run on i686
> - using GuixSD
> - I rebased my patch set on master 2 days ago and tried to test from
> there
> - this resulted in a bunch of "401 - Not Found" for a number of the
> binary substitute dependencies.
> - and from then I have been rebuilding those dependencies
>
> I guess part of the problem is that the substitute servers won't
> necessarily have substitutes for a particular program from master yet?
>
> I guess an additional problem is that some of the packages fail tests on
> my setup intermittently (they fail using
> `guix package -i youtube-dl --fallback`, for instance, but would then
> succeed if I build using `guix build $dependency`).
>
> But would people have recommendations to ensure some level of substitute
> stability or some such?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Alex
>
> Hartmut Goebel writes:
>
>> Am 16.11.2016 um 14:27 schrieb Alex Sassmannshausen:
>>> as I did not know of an
>>> appropriate test candidate (I tried to build offlineimap, but this failed
>>> because address@hidden failed at least one of it’s tests).
>>
>> You may try e.g. scons, pip, sphinx, or youtube-dl.