bug#39294: Can't run ./configure

bug#39294: Can't run ./configure

[Damien Cassou]

Hi,

I'm on Fedora and just installed Guix by using guix-install.sh. I also
checked out Guix git repository. When inside this repository, I face the
following issue:

    $ guix environment guix
    ...
    
    guix$ ./bootstrap
    ...
    
    guix$ ./configure
    ...
    checking if (gnutls) is available... yes
    checking if (git) is available... no
    configure: error: Guile-Git is missing; please install it.

I tried passing "--ad-hoc guile-git git" as parameter to "guix
environment", but this doesn't fix the problem.

-- 
Damien Cassou

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without
losing enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill

bug#39294: Can't run ./configure

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix]

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Damien,

Damien Cassou 写道：
>     guix$ ./configure
>     ...
>     checking if (gnutls) is available... yes
>     checking if (git) is available... no
>     configure: error: Guile-Git is missing; please install it.
>
> I tried passing "--ad-hoc guile-git git" as parameter to "guix
> environment", but this doesn't fix the problem.

Could you try ‘--ad-hoc guile3.0-git’ instead?  Guix was recently 
upgraded to use Guile 3.0, but not all (any?) guile-* packages 
were updated in tandem.

Kind regards,

T G-R

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bug#39294: Can't run ./configure

[Gábor Boskovits]

Hello Damien,

Damien Cassou <damien@cassou.me> ezt írta (időpont: 2020. jan. 26., V, 17:58):
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm on Fedora and just installed Guix by using guix-install.sh. I also
> checked out Guix git repository. When inside this repository, I face the
> following issue:
>
>     $ guix environment guix
>     ...
>
>     guix$ ./bootstrap
>     ...
>
>     guix$ ./configure
>     ...
>     checking if (gnutls) is available... yes
>     checking if (git) is available... no
>     configure: error: Guile-Git is missing; please install it.
>
> I tried passing "--ad-hoc guile-git git" as parameter to "guix
> environment", but this doesn't fix the problem.
>
The issue seems here, is that the current guix is too old.
guix environment guix should be enough if the current guix and the
checked out one shares the dependencies.

Could you try this again after 'guix pull'?

> --
> Damien Cassou
>
> "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without
> losing enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill
>
>
>


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bug#39294: Can't run ./configure

[Julien Lepiller]

Le 26 janvier 2020 11:57:45 GMT-05:00, Damien Cassou <damien@cassou.me> a écrit :
>Hi,
>
>I'm on Fedora and just installed Guix by using guix-install.sh. I also
>checked out Guix git repository. When inside this repository, I face
>the
>following issue:
>
>    $ guix environment guix
>    ...
>    
>    guix$ ./bootstrap
>    ...
>    
>    guix$ ./configure
>    ...
>    checking if (gnutls) is available... yes
>    checking if (git) is available... no
>    configure: error: Guile-Git is missing; please install it.
>
>I tried passing "--ad-hoc guile-git git" as parameter to "guix
>environment", but this doesn't fix the problem.

Hi Damien,

don't listen to them, they don't fave a fedora workstation :p

On my fedora system, configure finds the system guile which doesn't want to use any of the libraries in the environment. I always have to do this:

$ guix environment guix --pure
^C if your terminal asks you to install whatever
[env]$ ./bootstrap
[env]$ ./configure --localstatedir=/var # this should now work
[env]$ exit # to exit the pure environment
$ guix environment guix # no need for pure anymore, so now we can use things outside of the environment too
[env]$ make

HTH :)

bug#39294: Can't run ./configure

[zimoun]

Hi Damien,

Thank you for reporting the issue.

Which Guix version do you use (command "guix describe")? Against which
Git commit?
Because I am not able to reproduce. :-(


I am using a fresh checkout with the Git commit
5e61de242156cdb3314abac168d9682ca7a4c28f.
And I have tried the old Guix version
d68de958b60426798ed62797ff7c96c327a672ac which is the Guix version of
v1.0.1 (a fresh install), I guess.


Inside a fresh checkout, I run (an old Guix version with time-machine):

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
guix time-machine \
  --commit=d68de958b60426798ed62797ff7c96c327a672ac \
  -- environment --container guix
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Then ./bootstrap and ./configure and the error is about Guile-JSON but
not Guile-Git.

Note that the option '--container' requires to set to 1 that
'/proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_userns_clone' on my stable Debian.


As Gábor said, "guix pull" should fix the issue.
As Julien pointed out, the option '--pure' could avoid some PATH
issue. Or the "stronger" option '--container' is your kernel supports
it.


I do not know if it is related to the option '--localstatedir=/var'.
But except if you have changed the default when installing Guix, it is
required at ./configure time. Well, it is documented for example here
[1] or there [2] or overthere [3]. I know... :-) My question is:
because you missed it (as I also did), it means that the documentation
could be improved, so where do you think this information should be
provided?

[1] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/guix.html#Requirements
[2] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/guix.html#The-Store
[3] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/guix.html#Building-from-Git


Please tell us if you have fixed your issue.

All the best,
simon

bug#39294: Can't run ./configure

[Damien Cassou]

Gábor Boskovits <boskovits@gmail.com> writes:
> The issue seems here, is that the current guix is too old.
> guix environment guix should be enough if the current guix and the
> checked out one shares the dependencies.
>
> Could you try this again after 'guix pull'?


this doesn't help. Maybe the installed guix should point to the master
branch? I don't know how to do that though.

-- 
Damien Cassou

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without
losing enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill

bug#39294: Can't run ./configure

[Damien Cassou]

Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> writes:
> $ guix environment guix --pure
> ^C if your terminal asks you to install whatever
> [env]$ ./bootstrap
> [env]$ ./configure --localstatedir=/var # this should now work
> [env]$ exit # to exit the pure environment
> $ guix environment guix # no need for pure anymore, so now we can use things outside of the environment too
> [env]$ make

This did the trick, thank you. I got a lot of error messages though:

$ guix environment guix
guile: warning: failed to install locale
substitute: /gnu/store/q19l04vd2za80mk1845pz7r8cz29qk43-bash-minimal-4.4.23/bin/bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.utf8)


perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
	LANGUAGE = (unset),
	LC_ALL = (unset),
	LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.


bash: gpg-connect-agent: command not found...
Similar command is: 'gpg-connect-agent'
bash: gpgconf: command not found...
Install package 'gnupg2' to provide command 'gpgconf'? [N/y] y

Failed to install packages: gnupg2-2.2.18-2.fc31.x86_64 is already installed

-- 
Damien Cassou

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without
losing enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill

bug#39294: Can't run ./configure

[Efraim Flashner]

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On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 09:17:44AM +0100, Damien Cassou wrote:
> Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> writes:
> > $ guix environment guix --pure
> > ^C if your terminal asks you to install whatever
> > [env]$ ./bootstrap
> > [env]$ ./configure --localstatedir=/var # this should now work
> > [env]$ exit # to exit the pure environment
> > $ guix environment guix # no need for pure anymore, so now we can use things outside of the environment too
> > [env]$ make
> 
> This did the trick, thank you. I got a lot of error messages though:
> 
> $ guix environment guix
> guile: warning: failed to install locale
> substitute: /gnu/store/q19l04vd2za80mk1845pz7r8cz29qk43-bash-minimal-4.4.23/bin/bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.utf8)
> 
> 
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> 	LANGUAGE = (unset),
> 	LC_ALL = (unset),
> 	LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
>     are supported and installed on your system.
> 

In the daemon service file you can change the Environment field to
change LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 to en_US.UTF-8.

> 
> bash: gpg-connect-agent: command not found...
> Similar command is: 'gpg-connect-agent'
> bash: gpgconf: command not found...
> Install package 'gnupg2' to provide command 'gpgconf'? [N/y] y
> 
> Failed to install packages: gnupg2-2.2.18-2.fc31.x86_64 is already installed

gpg-connect-agent and gpg-connect-agent look similar to me too ...

not sure about gpgconf. Could it have something to do with SElinux?

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bug#39294: Can't run ./configure

[Damien Cassou]

zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:
> Which Guix version do you use (command "guix describe")?

$ guix describe
guile: warning: failed to install locale
Generation 1    Jan 27 2020 21:46:02    (current)
  guix 4fc4e5f
    repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
    branch: master
    commit: 4fc4e5fdd9da6320aa94eeec61cbb84a7dc9460e

>  Against which Git commit?

$ git log | head -n 1
commit 195e1c1b080e41f5405d820a4f02fc7b20194ace

> I do not know if it is related to the option '--localstatedir=/var'.
> But except if you have changed the default when installing Guix, it is
> required at ./configure time. Well, it is documented for example here
> [1] or there [2] or overthere [3]. I know... :-) My question is:
> because you missed it (as I also did),


I didn't miss it when I tried. I just missed it while writing the
email. Adding the option didn't change a thing. Also, I followed the
easy installation method with guix-install.sh to I expect I'm using
defaults.


Best,

-- 
Damien Cassou

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without
losing enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill

bug#39294: Can't run ./configure

[zimoun]

Hi Damien,

On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 at 09:18, Damien Cassou <damien@cassou.me> wrote:
> Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> writes:

> > $ guix environment guix --pure

[...]

> This did the trick, thank you. I got a lot of error messages though:

You mean using the option '--pure', right?

Which shell do you use ? Bash or a more exotic one?


> $ guix environment guix
> guile: warning: failed to install locale
> substitute: /gnu/store/q19l04vd2za80mk1845pz7r8cz29qk43-bash-minimal-4.4.23/bin/bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.utf8)

I think Ludo answered you in another bug report [1]. :-)

Well, you need to install 'glibc-locales' both in your user profile
and in the root profile (do not forget to restart the Guix daemon
service).
Note that the subset 'glibc-utf8-locale's provides ("de_DE" "el_GR"
"en_US" "fr_FR" "tr_TR"), lighter than the fill 'glibc-locales' if it
fits your locale.

[1] https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=39325#8



All the best,
simon

bug#39294: Can't run ./configure

[zimoun]

Hi Damien,

On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 at 09:38, Damien Cassou <damien@cassou.me> wrote:
> zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:

> > Which Guix version do you use (command "guix describe")?
>
> $ guix describe
> guile: warning: failed to install locale
> Generation 1    Jan 27 2020 21:46:02    (current)
>   guix 4fc4e5f
>     repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
>     branch: master
>     commit: 4fc4e5fdd9da6320aa94eeec61cbb84a7dc9460e
>
> >  Against which Git commit?
>
> $ git log | head -n 1
> commit 195e1c1b080e41f5405d820a4f02fc7b20194ace

I think it works with these versions.
And the issue you have reported should come from your env variables,
which are turned off when using '--pure' (or '--container').


> I didn't miss it when I tried. I just missed it while writing the
> email. Adding the option didn't change a thing. Also, I followed the
> easy installation method with guix-install.sh to I expect I'm using
> defaults.

Ok, nice! :-)


All the best,
simon

bug#39294: Can't run ./configure

[Julien Lepiller]

Le 28 janvier 2020 03:31:39 GMT-05:00, Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> a écrit :
>On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 09:17:44AM +0100, Damien Cassou wrote:
>> Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> writes:
>> > $ guix environment guix --pure
>> > ^C if your terminal asks you to install whatever
>> > [env]$ ./bootstrap
>> > [env]$ ./configure --localstatedir=/var # this should now work
>> > [env]$ exit # to exit the pure environment
>> > $ guix environment guix # no need for pure anymore, so now we can
>use things outside of the environment too
>> > [env]$ make
>> 
>> This did the trick, thank you. I got a lot of error messages though:
>> 
>> $ guix environment guix
>> guile: warning: failed to install locale
>> substitute:
>/gnu/store/q19l04vd2za80mk1845pz7r8cz29qk43-bash-minimal-4.4.23/bin/bash:
>warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.utf8)
>> 
>> 
>> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>> 	LANGUAGE = (unset),
>> 	LC_ALL = (unset),
>> 	LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
>>     are supported and installed on your system.
>> 

Also try guix install glibc-utf8-locales (and maybe the same for root, I'm not sure).

>
>In the daemon service file you can change the Environment field to
>change LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 to en_US.UTF-8.
>
>> 
>> bash: gpg-connect-agent: command not found...
>> Similar command is: 'gpg-connect-agent'
>> bash: gpgconf: command not found...
>> Install package 'gnupg2' to provide command 'gpgconf'? [N/y] y
>> 
>> Failed to install packages: gnupg2-2.2.18-2.fc31.x86_64 is already
>installed

This message is from fedora, not guix. Apparently it tries to run gpg-agent, but it can't because you're in a pure environment (the $PATH does not contain /usr/bin or /bin). However, the package is already installed, so dnf can't do anything :)

At this question, just kill it with a ^C, because if you say no, it will ask the same for other packages.

>
>gpg-connect-agent and gpg-connect-agent look similar to me too ...
>
>not sure about gpgconf. Could it have something to do with SElinux?

bug#39294: Can't run ./configure

[Damien Cassou]

Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> writes:
> This message is from fedora, not guix. Apparently it tries to run
> gpg-agent, but it can't because you're in a pure environment (the
> $PATH does not contain /usr/bin or /bin). However, the package is
> already installed, so dnf can't do anything :)
>
> At this question, just kill it with a ^C, because if you say no, it
> will ask the same for other packages.


thank you for your answer. All of this is very confusing.

-- 
Damien Cassou

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without
losing enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill

bug#39294: Can't run ./configure

[Damien Cassou]

zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:
>> > $ guix environment guix --pure
>
> [...]
>
>> This did the trick, thank you. I got a lot of error messages though:
>
> You mean using the option '--pure', right?


yes


> Which shell do you use ? Bash or a more exotic one?


sometimes bash in `M-x ansi-term`, sometimes `M-x eshell`. When
frustrated by the first two I usually go to urxvt but I try to avoid
that.

Thank you all for your help.

-- 
Damien Cassou

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without
losing enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill

bug#39294: Can't run ./configure

[zimoun]

Hi Damien,

Is your issue solved now?
Is it ok for closing this bug?

All the best,
simon

bug#39294: Can't run ./configure

[Damien Cassou]

zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:
> Is your issue solved now?
> Is it ok for closing this bug?

my issue is solved for me so you can close the bug. But the next Fedora
user will struggle similarly. You decide.

-- 
Damien Cassou

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without
losing enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill

bug#39294: Can't run ./configure

[zimoun]

On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 at 16:33, Damien Cassou <damien@cassou.me> wrote:

> my issue is solved for me so you can close the bug. But the next Fedora
> user will struggle similarly. You decide.

I am not sure that if one user struggles similarly then they searches
first in the bug tracker[*]. :-)
And I am not convinced that it is bug neither. :-)


Well, I am closing.

All the best,
simon

[*] or the user is an Emacs user. ;-)

bug#39294: Can't run ./configure

[Julien Lepiller]

Le 29 janvier 2020 11:09:05 GMT-05:00, zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> a écrit :
>On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 at 16:33, Damien Cassou <damien@cassou.me> wrote:
>
>> my issue is solved for me so you can close the bug. But the next
>Fedora
>> user will struggle similarly. You decide.
>
>I am not sure that if one user struggles similarly then they searches
>first in the bug tracker[*]. :-)
>And I am not convinced that it is bug neither. :-)
>
>
>Well, I am closing.
>
>All the best,
>simon
>
>[*] or the user is an Emacs user. ;-)

We could fix the documentation to recommend using --pure when running confiqure, but not afterwards, with a warning that some systems might ask you to install software you already have, and you should ignore that. How does that sound?

bug#39294: Can't run ./configure

[zimoun]

Hi Julien,

On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 at 18:30, Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> wrote:

> We could fix the documentation to recommend using --pure when running confiqure, but not afterwards, with a warning that some systems might ask you to install software you already have, and you should ignore that. How does that sound?

About tweak the doc, for sure. :-)
Even the better is to recommend '--container' and if the kernel does
not have it, then '--pure'.
And I guess that using '--container', the 'gpg' issue should not show
up. I did not checked but what step requires this 'gpg' when "guix
environment guix -- (./bootstrap && ./configure && make)"?


Cheers,
simon