bug#30879: Commit bc499b113 broke guix on address@hidden, improper <operating-system> field initialization

[Ludovic Courtès]

Eric Bavier <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 12:12:02AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>
>> That sounds a lot like regular ABI breakage: a new <operating-system>
>> field was added but gnu/tests/base.go wasn’t rebuilt, and thus was
>> expecting the previous struct layout.
>> 
>> Does “rm gnu/tests/base.go && make” suffice to fix this issue?
>
> No, it doesn't help.  Previously I had been running "make clean-go"
> before each "make.
>
> The error/backtrace is issued when build-aux/compile-all.scm tries to
> load gnu/tests/base.scm, before it even gets to compilation.

Oh, can you “rm -rf ~/.cache/guile”?

One thing that could be an issue is that (gnu system install) loads
‘examples/bare-bones.tmpl’.  Thus ‘bare-bones.tmpl.go’ ends up in
~/.cache/guile and could be out of sync.

Thanks,
Ludo’.