From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net>
Cc: 27080@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27080: ¨make install" fails because of missing gawk
Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 18:44:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zidzefej.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9a1ca3b7-2eeb-15a2-6af7-a218a5de3292@fastmail.net>
Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net> writes:
> On 26/05/2017 16:56, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>
>>> in order to prevent Guix from overwriting some of Ubuntu's system files.
>>
>> Guix will not overwrite any system files. It only writes to /gnu,
>> /var/guix, and /etc/guix.
>
> It did when I first tried install-from-source a few months ago, and it
> took me a while to clean up the mess. More precisely, it put a lot of
> stuff into /usr/local, overwriting files in /usr/local/share that
> Ubuntu-installed software depended on. If that has changed in the
> meantime, that's great.
I don’t think it ever behaved like that, because it hardly has anything
to install. Hence I don’t think there have been any changes. Without
additional details it’s not very productive to talk about this, though.
>> No, the configure script is probably okay. Maybe something’s up with
>> your environment. Have you tried “guix environment --pure guix”?
>
> I just did. No difference. Same config.log, same Makefile, same error
> messages.
Could you share the output of “env” within the pure guix environment?
--
Ricardo
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-26 16:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-26 7:18 bug#27080: ¨make install" fails because of missing gawk Konrad Hinsen
2017-05-26 11:10 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-05-26 13:53 ` Konrad Hinsen
2017-05-26 14:56 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-05-26 16:01 ` Konrad Hinsen
2017-05-26 16:44 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2017-05-26 18:38 ` Konrad Hinsen
2017-05-26 20:27 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-05-28 9:22 ` Konrad Hinsen
2017-05-28 20:24 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-28 20:28 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-29 14:47 ` Konrad Hinsen
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