Re: How to solve "abiI-check: recompilation needed"

[Maxime Devos]

Maxim Cournoyer schreef op vr 17-09-2021 om 16:03 [-0400]:
> Hello,
> 
> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
> 
> > Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com> writes:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > quite often, after "git pull" I'm facing this error when running
> > > "make-make-go":
> > > 
> > > $ make make-go
> > > Compiling Scheme modules...
> > > Compiling Scheme modules...
> > > [ 69%] LOAD     gnu/packages/admin.scm
> > > error: failed to load 'gnu/packages/check.scm':
> > > ice-9/eval.scm:293:34: In procedure abi-check: #<record-type
> > > <package>>: record ABI mismatch; recompilation needed
> > > make: *** [Makefile:7096: make-packages-go] Fehler 1
> > > 
> > > How can I solve this, without removing and rebulding *all* files -
> > > which is time consuming and a waste of electric power.
> > 
> > You need to rebuild all users of the modified record types.  I don’t
> > know if you can easily figure out which files these are.
> > 
> > The suggested fix is in fact to rebuild all go files, i.e. “make
> > clean-go” and then “make -j”.
> 
> For this example, there's no good way as 'package' is used in a majority
> of the Guile modules.  It it had been something more specific, such as
> the <bootloader-configuration> record, you could have gotten away with:
> 
> $ git grep -l bootloader-configuration | grep '.scm' \
>   | sed 's/.scm/.go/' | xargs rm
> 
> $ make
> 
> Which I often though to save recompilation time.

The ‘dependency tracking‘ patch in <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/50384#9>
could be adapted to let all source files using the ‘package’ macro depend
on guix/packages.scm.  Likewise for origin records and other records.

Greetings,
Maxime.

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