Re: Error building cdrtools and dvd+rw-tools

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Hi,

> After my latest "guix pull", I tried building dvd+rw-tools, but it is
> erroring out when trying to build cdrtools. Attempting to build cdrtools
> directly, returns the same fatal error with a rather lengthy log file
> associated with the build.
>
> After digging through it, I noticed several possible issues in the build 
> process:
>
> - no perl is installed (shouldn't this be in the package's inputs list?)
> - warning that GNU make is unmaintained and suggesting that we use s-make 
> instead
> - broken ext2_fs.h 
> (/gnu/store/3c9a43ifhbjm8lsc1s183y8a8874fz01-linux-libre-headers-4.14.67/include/linux/ext2_fs.h
>  is broken... yes)

The cdrtools author is known for being snarky and this is reflected in
the output of the build system.

It’s possible that we need to add “#:parallel-build? #f” to the
build system arguments to address the non-deterministic failures.

--
Ricardo