On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 08:52:36AM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > It does seem to work. To test this I added (error "foo") to a build > phase in the “diamond” package and ran > > guix package -i diamond > > This ends with > > Build failed: > /gnu/store/wk9qbhmdzs62mp40casrndcgm3p50m3b-diamond-0.9.22.drv > guix package: error: build failed: build of > `/gnu/store/wk9qbhmdzs62mp40casrndcgm3p50m3b-diamond-0.9.22.drv' failed > > So I ran > > guix build --log-file > /gnu/store/wk9qbhmdzs62mp40casrndcgm3p50m3b-diamond-0.9.22.drv > > which gave me > > /var/log/guix/drvs/wk/9qbhmdzs62mp40casrndcgm3p50m3b-diamond-0.9.22.drv.bz2 > > which contains the build log for this failed build, including the "foo" > error message.
Thanks Ricardo! I am still learning stuff. Very useful. Pj.