bug#41481: Can't build glibc-mesboot0

[Roel Janssen]

Hi Mathieu,

Thanks for the fast response!

On Sat, 2020-05-23 at 15:31 +0200, Mathieu Othacehe wrote:
> Hello Roel,
> 
> > I installed Guix System on my computer but I am facing two
> > problems:
> > 
> > 1. "guix pull" returns:
> > Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at '
> > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git'...
> > Building from these channels:
> >   guix      https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git       28e9a11
> > guix pull: error: glibc-bootstrap-system-2.2.5.patch: patch not
> > found
> > 
> > I worked around that by doing:
> > $ find /gnu/store -name "glibc-bootstrap-system-2.2.5.patch"
> > $ mkdir ~/dummy; cd ~/dummy; ln -s <the-location-of-this-file>
> > $ export GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH=~/dummy
> > 
> > Is there a proper way to fix this?
> 
> This has been fixed by 179e6c524ae4957e6ace83f72a5651767f786ca4. I
> guess
> that if you pull again it should be fixed.

Right, so this will fix itself once I can do a 'guix pull'.

> > 2. Installing emacs fails because the build of glibc-mesboot0 fails
> > with:
> > 
> > patch: **** Can't open patch file
> > /gnu/store/wcz8d4vkcjs7c6m56mz3lsbkxgvnb17v-glibc-bootstrap-system-
> > 2.2.5.patcherror 02:  
> > command "patch" "--force" "-p1" "-i"
> > "/gnu/store/wcz8d4vkcjs7c6m56mz3lsbkxgvnb17v-glibc-bootstrap-
> > system-
> > 2.2.5.patch" failed with status 2
> 
> I don't know what forces a build of glibc-mesboot0, but this looks
> like:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2020-05/msg00335.html.
> 
> Is your store on an NVME disk, without encryption, by any chance?

No, but it is on an SSD (Samsung EVO 850), and there are two NVME
drives in the system, but these are not mounted.  So I think I should
dodge that bug.

Is there a substitute available for glibc-mesboot0?

Kind regards,
Roel Janssen