bug#19630: error message when referencing non-existing output not helpful

2015-01-24 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Commit f304c9c fixes that. Now the result is something like this: --8<---cut here---start->8--- $ ./pre-inst-env guix build abiword -n guix build: error: reference to invalid output 'binfds' of derivation '/gnu/store/7lxd5yri8s4vkailk1jg5bxiqrshblj1-glib-2.42.

bug#19630: error message when referencing non-existing output not helpful

2015-01-19 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
When a package recipe specifies as input a non-existing output of a package, the build process fails with a rather unhelpful late error message. The following is the output of building a package that depends on the "bin" output of libtool, which has since been removed. ~ [rwurmus@workstation: