Hey Ludo, > That would ensure we’re only changing Guile’s notion of the terminal > width and not interfering with other tools we might launch as child > processes. > > Thoughts?
Seems like a better idea indeed. Here's an update patch. About using 200 or a much larger value as Danny suggested, I don't have a strong opinion myself. WDYT? Thanks, Mathieu
>From d5f792414d0666d554dc8c7b6fee351bbe7a1c14 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mathieu Othacehe <m.othac...@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 14 May 2019 14:05:36 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] installer: Increase backtrace verbosity. * gnu/installer.scm (installer-program): Set terminal-width to 200 to make guile backtraces more verbose. --- gnu/installer.scm | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/gnu/installer.scm b/gnu/installer.scm index 3dd76707bf..40c06af320 100644 --- a/gnu/installer.scm +++ b/gnu/installer.scm @@ -336,6 +336,8 @@ selected keymap." (gnu services herd) (guix i18n) (guix build utils) + ((system repl debug) + #:select (terminal-width)) (ice-9 match)) ;; Initialize gettext support so that installers can use @@ -359,6 +361,11 @@ selected keymap." (bindtextdomain "xkeyboard-config" #+(file-append xkeyboard-config "/share/locale")) + ;; Initialize 'terminal-width' in (system repl debug) + ;; to a large-enough value to make backtrace more + ;; verbose. + (terminal-width 200) + (let* ((current-installer newt-installer) (steps (#$steps current-installer))) ((installer-init current-installer)) -- 2.17.1