No worries! We’re all learning :-) I ended up asking my colleague to use: strace --env=MES_DEBUG=1 We’ll see what happens! > On Aug 11, 2021, at 8:53 AM, Bengt Richter wrote: > > Just this disclaimer: > I am just a lurker interested in mes, not a mes developer or team member. > (I am trying to do some minimal stuff too, so I cloned the mes repo and pull once > in a while to see what's going on :) > > Sorry for any implication that I really know anything about mes ;/ > > On +2021-08-11 03:21:18 +0200, Bengt Richter wrote: >> On +2021-08-11 02:38:54 +0200, Bengt Richter wrote: >>> On +2021-08-10 15:41:25 -0400, Carl Dong wrote: >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> While setting up Guix for a community member of mine, we encountered this somewhat inscrutable problem (I later learned this is not the first time Guix users have run into this problem!). When building /gnu/store/2nvaxgs0rdxfkrwklh622ggaxg0wap6n-bash-mesboot0-2.05b.drv, we encountered the following build failure: https://paste.sr.ht/~dongcarl/376b19b8349c329ed5329508c7fb43a7c3aec64b#2nvaxgs0rdxfkrwklh622ggaxg0wap6n-bash-mesboot0-2.05b.log-L1299 >>>> >>>> The error line is L1299: "make: stat:Makefile: sterror: unknown error” >>>> -- >>> >>> To me, sterror looks like a typo for strerror >>> so grepping for sterror might find the typo, if that's what it is? >>> >> Looking at ./lib/mes/__mes_debug.c, it looks like you could set/export environment >> MES_DEBUG=1 and run it again to see the error number ./lib/string/strerror.c >> (in git repo) doesn't like. >> >> Then run something like my error-printing kludge that will work on your system: >> >> I called it errno-grep >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- >> #!/usr/bin/bash >> if [ -z "$1" ];then >> echo "Usage: errno-grep [ grep switches for grepping the following files in order ]" >> echo " /usr/include/asm-generic/errno-base.h" >> echo " /usr/include/asm-generic/errno.h" >> exit 0 >> fi >> >> if [ "${1:0:1}" == "-" ]; then >> exec grep "$@" /usr/include/asm-generic/errno-base.h /usr/include/asm-generic/errno.h >> else >> exec egrep -wh "$@" /usr/include/asm-generic/errno-base.h /usr/include/asm-generic/errno.h >> fi >> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- >> >> HTH. >> >> >> > > -- > Regards, > Bengt Richter