Re: Inscrutable error when using “guix deploy”

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

address@hidden (Jakob L. Kreuze) skribis:

> I saw this specific error message a few times while I was building 'guix
> deploy'. It means something's been printed that can't be read, which
> (might) be the case if something doesn't have a G-Expression compiler.
> My money is on the target not having a reader for <operating-system>,
> but as you've observed, the error reporting makes this incredibly
> difficult to diagnose.

We could probably arrange so that ‘gexp->sexp’ reports about objects
without a read syntax that remain in the resulting sexp.

Ludo’.