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authorLars-Dominik Braun <lars@6xq.net>2021-09-19 11:10:16 +0200
committerLars-Dominik Braun <lars@6xq.net>2021-10-08 09:13:52 +0200
commitb74ca403cbb11c60d57b6a0148d97c6572019754 (patch)
tree527fbd8e38b4d32f5b2534dbe004231656007bca
parentedd912a128cf467050c1a76a021d91ea8b90e759 (diff)
downloadguix-b74ca403cbb11c60d57b6a0148d97c6572019754.tar.gz
build-system/haskell: Explain failure.
Provide human-readable failure message and explain how to fix it.

* guix/build/haskell-build-system.scm (register): Raise error if source
file does not exist.
-rw-r--r--guix/build/haskell-build-system.scm2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/guix/build/haskell-build-system.scm b/guix/build/haskell-build-system.scm
index 4d0bf6f38a..ef6cb316ee 100644
--- a/guix/build/haskell-build-system.scm
+++ b/guix/build/haskell-build-system.scm
@@ -217,6 +217,8 @@ given Haskell package."
          (if (not (vhash-assoc id seen))
              (let ((dep-conf  (string-append src  "/" id ".conf"))
                    (dep-conf* (string-append dest "/" id ".conf")))
+               (when (not (file-exists? dep-conf))
+                   (error (format #f "File ~a does not exist. This usually means the dependency ~a is missing. Was checking conf-file ~a." dep-conf id conf-file)))
                (copy-file dep-conf dep-conf*) ;XXX: maybe symlink instead?
                (loop (vhash-cons id #t seen)
                      (append lst (conf-depends dep-conf))))