Re: Cryptic error messages: Bug in guile?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Alex Vong <address@hidden> skribis:

> swedebugia <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I try to package for guix.
>> Sometimes I forget a parens somewhere.
>>
>> When I invoke make in the guix source tree the parens error will be
>> reported as any other kind of error. (unbound variable, package not
>> found, etc)

[...]

> What error message do you receive? Usually I get something like:
>
>   ERROR: In procedure read:
>   In procedure scm_i_lreadparen: #<unknown port>:1:2: end of file

This message is rather obscure (unless you’re familiar with
libguile/read.c) so Guix has a hack to translate it into a
human-readable message:

  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/guix/ui.scm#n348

Ludo’.