Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> skribis: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 09:01:07AM -0400, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: >> From 06ba66d1949ba59573518f471ad3cbacefea6ea2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >> From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.courno...@gmail.com> >> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 08:49:50 -0400 >> Subject: [PATCH] build: git-fetch: Print message when falling back to a full >> checkout. >> >> Otherwise the user might believe that git-fetch stalled, observing the lack >> of >> output following a 'fatal' git error message (see: >> https://debbugs.gnu.org/33100). >> >> * guix/build/git.scm (git-fetch): Print message when falling back to a full >> checkout. > > I like it, but it doesn't seem to actually print anything for me when I > trigger the failing case, for example by fetching the libssh source over > HTTP.
If might be that current-output-port is fully buffered. What if you add: (setvbuf (current-output-port) 'line) before the ‘format’ call? Thanks, Ludo’, who is found guilty of not actually running the code.
