George Clemmer <myg...@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi Mark, > > Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> writes: > >> George Clemmer <myg...@gmail.com> writes: >>> Brian, I believe that what you are experiencing as a "hang" is actually >>> the incredibly long time that it takes for guile to bootstrap itself. >> >> That's not what's happening here, because this hang is happening during >> "make check". Thanks anyway :) >> >> Mark > > Well, ISTM 'make check-TESTS' is bootstrapping guile for some reason. I > say that because the fragment quoted by Brian ... > >> This is what is displaced on the screen when the hang occurs: >> >> … >> make check-TESTS >> make[3]: Entering directory ‘/tmp/guix-build-guile-2.2.3.drv-0/guile-2.2.3’ >> Testing /tmp/guix-build-guile-2.2.3.drv-0/guile-2.2.3/meta/guile … >> with GUILE_LOAD_PATH=/tmp/guix-guild-guile-2.2.3.drv-0/guile-2.2.3/test-suite > > ... matches the log for ... > > building /gnu/store/55f2ihxyjyskpv9w0m2c4g0zcinjylif-guile-2.2.3.drv... > > ... that I have here. > > HTH - George And, with the current state of the guix infrastructure, even a 'guix pull' on a fresh vm-image triggers guile bootstrap. And a guile bootstrap, on the best of days, displays these symptoms: howling CPUs and hardly any disk activity. So, relative to what one expects when installing a distro this feels hung. Not the most confidence inspiring experience to subject a guix noob to ;-)
