On 11/10/2017 at 00:04 Ludovic Courtès writes: > > Thrilled by this idea, I pushed an unbound-variable handler that can > provide hints, such as: > > configuration.scm:88:19: zip: unbound variable > hint: Try adding `(use-modules (gnu packages compression))'. > > Feedback welcome!
I built and played with this. If I follow some of the hints literally they lead me astray. Here are some suggested hint rewording. Note: You can reproduce the errors/hints below with the attached files. HTH - George HINT REWORDING SUGGESTIONS: *** test2: "NON EXISTANT PACKAGE MODULE (qemu) for qemu PACKAGE SPECIFIED" The error messages ... /root/ctest/test2:4:0: error: module (gnu packages qemu) not found hint: Try adding `(use-package-modules virtualization)'. ... are followed literally in test2.fix, which does not fix the problem because the stale and non-existant 'qemu' package module reference also needs to be removed. Maybe a better hint would be ... hint: Remove the reference to the pachage module that was not hint: found and add `(use-package-modules virtualization)'. *** test3: 'NON EXISTANT (openssh) SERVICE MODULE specified' This has the same conceptual problem as test2 above. The error messages ... /root/ctest/test3:3:0: error: module (gnu services openssh) not found hint: Try adding `(use-service-modules ssh)'. ... are followed literally in test3.fix, which does not fix the problem because the non-existant 'openssh' service module reference also needs to be removed. Maybe a better hint would be ... hint: Remove the reference to the service module that was not hint: found and add `(use-service-modules ssh)'. *** test4: "SERVICE MODULE (ssh) for openssh-service-type SERVICE MISSING" A more helpful hint here ... /root/ctest/test4:46:19: /root/ctest/test4:46:19: openssh-service-type: unbound variable hint: Did you forget a `use-modules' form? ... would be ... hint: Try adding `(use-service-modules ssh)'. *** VERSION INFO: 74bea6a03 gnu: linux-libre: Update to 4.13.12. make check failed as reported in bug#29245 but I don't think those errors affect what I am seeing here. TEST FILES:
test0.scm
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try.sh
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