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authorRichard Sent <richard@freakingpenguin.com>2024-06-17 21:02:29 -0400
committerMaxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>2024-06-24 08:51:45 -0400
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doc: Add message for common error about make check-system.
* doc/contributing.texi (Running the Test Suite): Mention that make clean-go may need to be run before running make check-system when previous builds were run with different work trees. Change-Id: I4b68d3a05f1425505816db969284487d725840d6 Signed-off-by: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> Fixes: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47573.
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@@ -411,6 +411,20 @@ computationally intensive or rather cheap, depending on whether
substitutes are available for their dependencies (@pxref{Substitutes}).
Some of them require a lot of storage space to hold VM images.
+If you encounter an error like:
+
+@example
+Compiling Scheme modules...
+ice-9/eval.scm:142:16: In procedure compile-top-call:
+error: all-system-tests: unbound variable
+hint: Did you forget `(use-modules (gnu tests))'?
+@end example
+
+@noindent
+there may be inconsistencies in the work tree from previous builds. To
+resolve this, try running @command{make clean-go} followed by
+@command{make}.
+
Again in case of test failures, please send @email{bug-guix@@gnu.org}
all the details.