As part of the earth-view Nix module I advertised here a few weeks ago, I am rebuilding the Go modules into a small Go CLI program.
The program works fine and I plan to release it soon. I’m in the process of adding some tests, which work fine with go test ./....
However, I am facing a weird issue with both nix-build and nix build: the checkPhase never ends when I try to build the package! The build worked fine without the tests, so I disabled them for now.
Weirdly, if I enter a nix-shell and manually run the phases, everything is working fine.
Here is the source code. And below are the commands I run:
Build with nix build
# enable check phase
$ sed -i 's/doCheck = false;/doCheck = true;/' package.nix
$ nix build -L .#earth-view
earth-view> Running phase: unpackPhase
earth-view> unpacking source archive /nix/store/5fz0pjkqxxypdxxciw05zzqzavfhr7sm-src
earth-view> source root is src
earth-view> Running phase: patchPhase
earth-view> Running phase: updateAutotoolsGnuConfigScriptsPhase
earth-view> Running phase: configurePhase
earth-view> Running phase: buildPhase
earth-view> Building subPackage .
earth-view> Building subPackage ./cmd
earth-view> Building subPackage ./cmd/fetch
earth-view> Building subPackage ./cmd/list
earth-view> Building subPackage ./lib
earth-view> Running phase: checkPhase
Once the checkPhase is reached, my laptop fans start and quickly reach their max speed. I tried to let the checkPhase run for 5 minutes but it never ended, I had to kill the build. Note that running the tests are running fine with go test ./....
The same issue appears with nix-build:
$ nix-build -A earth-view
this derivation will be built:
/nix/store/75j98kk617qrs4afy55d8axn9i7gmrhb-earth-view-1.0.0.drv
building '/nix/store/75j98kk617qrs4afy55d8axn9i7gmrhb-earth-view-1.0.0.drv'...
Running phase: unpackPhase
unpacking source archive /nix/store/9dvyi9p0kpvddfbb10mmdqsvy365m0jw-src
source root is src
Running phase: patchPhase
Running phase: updateAutotoolsGnuConfigScriptsPhase
Running phase: configurePhase
Running phase: buildPhase
Building subPackage .
Building subPackage ./cmd
Building subPackage ./cmd/fetch
Building subPackage ./cmd/list
Building subPackage ./lib
Running phase: checkPhase
Build through nix-shell
As mentioned, everything is fine when run manually with nix-shell
$ mv shell.nix _shell.nix
$ nix-shell
$ mkdir build && cd $_
$ export out=$PWD/out
$ source $stdenv/setup
$ set +e
$ genericBuild
Running phase: unpackPhase
unpacking source archive /nix/store/9dvyi9p0kpvddfbb10mmdqsvy365m0jw-src
source root is src
Running phase: patchPhase
Running phase: updateAutotoolsGnuConfigScriptsPhase
Running phase: updateAutotoolsGnuConfigScriptsPhase
Running phase: configurePhase
Running phase: buildPhase
Building subPackage .
Building subPackage ./cmd
Building subPackage ./cmd/fetch
Building subPackage ./cmd/list
Building subPackage ./lib
Running phase: checkPhase
ok earth-view/cmd/fetch 0.934s
Running phase: installPhase
Running phase: fixupPhase
shrinking RPATHs of ELF executables and libraries in /home/nicolas/work/perso/earth-view/build/out
shrinking /home/nicolas/work/perso/earth-view/build/out/bin/earth-view
checking for references to /run/user/1000/ in /home/nicolas/work/perso/earth-view/build/out...
patching script interpreter paths in /home/nicolas/work/perso/earth-view/build/out
stripping (with command strip and flags -S -p) in /home/nicolas/work/perso/earth-view/build/out/bin
shrinking RPATHs of ELF executables and libraries in /home/nicolas/work/perso/earth-view/build/out
shrinking /home/nicolas/work/perso/earth-view/build/out/bin/earth-view
checking for references to /run/user/1000/ in /home/nicolas/work/perso/earth-view/build/out...
patching script interpreter paths in /home/nicolas/work/perso/earth-view/build/out
stripping (with command strip and flags -S -p) in /home/nicolas/work/perso/earth-view/build/out/bin
Any ideas?
