Hi Janneke! Oh, that’s a very good find! I have no idea why config.cache is not writable… This is most strange! I checked that my mountpoints have enough free space… Not sure what else to check? Looking at `guix describe`, I’m on bf8dfe3df025e4ac80cccb87497b4f072ba10e2a Cheers, Carl Dong > On Dec 11, 2020, at 1:33 AM, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > > Carl Dong writes: > > Hello! > >> Some more information from my debugging: >> >> 1. This error is reproducible even when I specify --cores=1, which is very strange >> 2. I have attached the full log to this email > > Diffing this with the build log from > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > guix build -e '(@@ (gnu packages commencement) binutils-mesboot0)' --log-file > wget https://ci.guix.gnu.org/log/jfa9b78rdniyw7qilsmw3bh02x8x68ly-binutils-mesboot0-2.14 -O jfa9b78rdniyw7qilsmw3bh02x8x68ly-binutils-mesboot0-2.14.gz > gunzip jfa9b78rdniyw7qilsmw3bh02x8x68ly-binutils-mesboot0-2.14.gz > diff -u jfa9b78rdniyw7qilsmw3bh02x8x68ly-binutils-mesboot0-2.14 2020-10-10-binutils-mesboot0.log > [..] > > @@ -5538,16 +5537,16 @@ > checking for i386-unknown-linux-windres... no > checking for windres... windres > checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no > -updating cache ./config.cache > +not updating unwritable cache ./config.cache > creating ./config.status > creating Makefile > [..] > @@ -5558,7 +5557,7 @@ > checking whether the C compiler (tcc -D __GLIBC_MINOR__=6 -g ) works... yes > checking whether the C compiler (tcc -D __GLIBC_MINOR__=6 -g ) is a cross-compiler... no > checking whether we are using GNU C... no > -checking for ranlib... (cached) true > +checking for ranlib... true > checking for POSIXized ISC... no > checking for ANSI C header files... yes > checking for working const... yes > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > config values do not get cached (why is config.cache > unwritable?)...which seems to lead to a misdectected presence of lex: > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > -@ build-succeeded /gnu/store/bz6xjpzlwf57m4bg3w5ihlq638sscx54-binutils-mesboot0-2.14.drv - > -checking for flex... (cached) /tmp/guix-build-binutils-mesboot0-2.14.drv-0/binutils-2.14/missing flex > -checking for flex... (cached) /tmp/guix-build-binutils-mesboot0-2.14.drv-0/binutils-2.14/missing flex > -checking for yywrap in -ll... (cached) no > -checking lex output file root... (cached) lex.yy > [..] > +checking for flex... no > +checking for lex... no > +./configure: line 4417: flex: command not found > +checking for flex... lex > +checking for yywrap in -ll... no > +checking lex output file root... ./configure: line 4505: lex: command not found > +configure: error: cannot find output from lex; giving up > +make: *** [configure-ld] Error 1 > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > What is your build environment/version of guix you're using? It looks > like some unreproducible bit is leaking in somewhere?? > > Greetings, > Janneke > > -- > Jan Nieuwenhuizen | GNU LilyPond http://lilypond.org > Freelance IT http://JoyofSource.com | Avatar® http://AvatarAcademy.com