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From: Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net>
Subject: bug#27080: =?UTF-8?Q?=C2=A8make?= install" fails because of missing
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Date: Sun, 28 May 2017 11:22:10 +0200
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To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
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Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:

> You are correct, however, that building from source and running =E2=80=9C=
make
> install=E2=80=9D *will* install Guix to the specified prefix.  What I=E2=
=80=99m pretty
> sure does *not* happen, though, is that this *overwrites* any files that
> Ubuntu (or any other system) uses.  It is well-behaved in that it
> installs things into the expected directories under the given prefix.

It does put everything into the correct directories, but that doesn't
prevent version conflicts with my Ubuntu installation. If I remember
correctly it was the locale definitions that were not compatible.

> (With the =E2=80=9Cpre-inst-env=E2=80=9D script it=E2=80=99s possible to =
run Guix without
> installing it, so you don=E2=80=99t even have to run =E2=80=9Cmake instal=
l=E2=80=9D at all if
> you just want to bootstrap Guix.)

That's a useful suggestion, thanks! All I want to do is develop my own
package definitions, and eventually contribute them to the official
distribution. All I need is a way to run Guix-from-source under my user
account.

Konrad.