Hi,

I tried to make an ebuild for guix for the Gentoo meta-distribution.

I don't have a full Gentoo system at the moment, but an install known
as Gentoo Prefix [1], where you install packges in your home
directory, using the regular Gentoo tools (a bit like what guix does
on another distro).  So I wrote an ebuild for guix [2] atop of Gentoo
prefix (that sounds a weird setup as I write it).

So I run an uptodate Fedora 17, amd64, with a gentoo prefix in
~/gprefix.

The compilation goes fine. Except I don't get why guix-0.3 attempts to
download guile-2.0.7.tar.xz during compilation phase, while I do have
guile-2.0.9 installed.

However, make check fails:

============================================================================
Testsuite summary for GNU Guix 0.3
============================================================================
# TOTAL: 19
# PASS:  11
# SKIP:  0
# XFAIL: 0
# FAIL:  8
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0
============================================================================
See ./test-suite.log
Please report to bug-guix@gnu.org
============================================================================
make[4]: *** [test-suite.log] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/cnicolas/gprefix/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/guix-0.3/work/guix-0.3'
make[3]: *** [check-TESTS] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/cnicolas/gprefix/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/guix-0.3/work/guix-0.3'
make[2]: *** [check-am] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/cnicolas/gprefix/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/guix-0.3/work/guix-0.3'
make[1]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/cnicolas/gprefix/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/guix-0.3/work/guix-0.3'
make: *** [check] Error 2

I join the test-suite.log (compressed) and full build log (compressed
too).

I don't understand all failures, some are due to socket path length:

ERROR: In procedure connect:
ERROR: In procedure scm_to_sockaddr: unix address path too long: /home/cnicolas/gprefix/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/guix-0.3/work/guix-0.3/test-tmp/var/7770/daemon-socket/socket

1. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/
2. https://bitbucket.org/fulax/fulax-gentoo-overlay/src/61d0d4420dd1600c008173f4b5344b766f56ff49/sys-apps/guix/guix-0.3.ebuild

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