Looking at the status of old patches, I hit this one patch#33318:
On Thu, 08 Nov 2018 at 17:00, swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net> wrote:
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> +@cindex producing the binary guix tarball
> The binary installation tarball can be (re)produced and verified simply
> by running the following command in the Guix source tree:
> @@ -743,8 +745,15 @@ make check TESTS="tests/base64.scm" SCM_LOG_DRIVER_FLAGS="--brief=no"
> Upon failure, please email @email{bug-guix@@gnu.org} and attach the
> @file{test-suite.log} file. Please specify the Guix version being used
> as well as version numbers of the dependencies (@pxref{Requirements}) in
> +your message, e.g. by running this command:
> +guile --version | head -1 && guix --version | head -1 && \
> +gcc --version | head -1 && echo -n ``libgcrypt `` && \
> +libgcrypt-config --version && make --version | head -1
Well, I do not know if this example is really useful.
I mean, if one is able to successfully run ’make’ without running before
“guix shell -D guix”, then this person probably already know how to
provide the versions of the dependencies, I guess. :-)
Moreover, such failures are rare so once the bug report open, we can ask
more details if the initial report does not contain enough.
I propose to close this submission without applying. WDYT?