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| author | Guix Together <jgart@dismail.de> | 2021-12-16 01:46:49 -0500 |
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| committer | Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> | 2022-01-28 10:14:56 +0100 |
| commit | 087ad097da798b2a019b7b469699b09b116d7d74 (patch) | |
| tree | abbca5e4ad5a026c95ea32af949781b2e69ba26a | |
| parent | 3da297997dad5b3525277fcecdca84f01d45b104 (diff) | |
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doc: Explain the use of make clean-go when an ABI mismatch occurs.
* doc/contributing.texi (Building from Git): Adds section on using
make clean-go.
Co-authored-by: jgart <jgart@dismail.de>
Co-authored-by: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
Co-authored-by: Ryan Prior <rprior@protonmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Blake Shaw <blake@nonconstructivism.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
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diff --git a/doc/contributing.texi b/doc/contributing.texi index 9f97788c0b..f258d79bd2 100644 --- a/doc/contributing.texi +++ b/doc/contributing.texi @@ -157,6 +157,18 @@ You are advised to run @command{make authenticate} after every changes to the repository. @end quotation +After updating the repository, @command{make} might fail with an error +similar to the following example: + +@example +error: failed to load 'gnu/packages/dunst.scm': +ice-9/eval.scm:293:34: In procedure abi-check: #<record-type <origin>>: record ABI mismatch; recompilation needed +@end example + +This means that one of the record types that Guix defines (in this +example, the @code{origin} record) has changed, and all of guix needs +to be recompiled to take that change into account. To do so, run +@command{make clean-go} followed by @command{make}. @node Running Guix Before It Is Installed @section Running Guix Before It Is Installed |