Hi, Maxim Cournoyer writes: > Hi, > > While updating Mutter to version 42.4, I encountered this: > > starting phase `shrink-runpath' > error: in phase 'shrink-runpath': uncaught exception: > wrong-type-arg "struct-vtable" "Wrong type argument in position ~A (expecting ~A): ~S" (1 "struct" #f) (#f) > phase `shrink-runpath' failed after 0.0 seconds > Backtrace: > 10 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/l5ri9gc942zpr8hqags8gl66ck0…") > In guix/build/gnu-build-system.scm: > 906:2 9 (gnu-build #:source _ #:outputs _ #:inputs _ #:phases . #) > In ice-9/boot-9.scm: > 1752:10 8 (with-exception-handler _ _ #:unwind? _ # _) > In srfi/srfi-1.scm: > 634:9 7 (for-each # …) > In ice-9/boot-9.scm: > 1752:10 6 (with-exception-handler _ _ #:unwind? _ # _) > In guix/build/gnu-build-system.scm: > 927:23 5 (_) > In guix/build/meson-build-system.scm: > 105:2 4 (shrink-runpath #:elf-directories _ #:outputs _) > In srfi/srfi-1.scm: > 634:9 3 (for-each # (("out" . #))) > 634:9 2 (for-each # ("/gnu/s…" …)) > In ice-9/boot-9.scm: > 1685:16 1 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _) > 1685:16 0 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _) > > ice-9/boot-9.scm:1685:16: In procedure raise-exception: > In procedure struct-vtable: Wrong type argument in position 1 (expecting struct): #f > builder for `/gnu/store/r5w8fl87b1ps7rdj9cn6w198qik5i9x5-mutter-42.4.drv' failed with exit code 1 > @ build-failed /gnu/store/r5w8fl87b1ps7rdj9cn6w198qik5i9x5-mutter-42.4.drv - 1 builder for `/gnu/store/r5w8fl87b1ps7rdj9cn6w198qik5i9x5-mutter-42.4.drv' failed with exit code 1 > derivation '/gnu/store/r5w8fl87b1ps7rdj9cn6w198qik5i9x5-mutter-42.4.drv' offloaded to 'localhost' failed: build of `/gnu/store/r5w8fl87b1ps7rdj9cn6w198qik5i9x5-mutter-42.4.drv' failed > build of /gnu/store/r5w8fl87b1ps7rdj9cn6w198qik5i9x5-mutter-42.4.drv failed > View build log at '/var/log/guix/drvs/r5/w8fl87b1ps7rdj9cn6w198qik5i9x5-mutter-42.4.drv'. > > I do not have the head clear enough to pursue investigating this now, > but it should be reproducible by undeleting the shrink-path phase of the > mutter 42.4 update that I should push soon. > > Thanks, > > Maxim It seems this was caused by Mutter using '-Wl,--disable-new-dtags' as a linker flag, which was causing no runpath to be registered by our linker script. That's a pathological case, but perhaps we could fail more gracefully and provide a hint. Thanks, Maxim