Re: [Guix] FTBFS on Ubuntu (12.04) 64bit. Various fatal during install.

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

"BlueT - Matthew Lien - 練喆明" <bluet@bluet.org> skribis:

> On 2013年07月08日 19:55, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> "BlueT - Matthew Lien - 練喆明" <bluet@bluet.org> skribis:
>>> checking for the Guix system type... x86_64-linux
>>> ./configure: line 6755: syntax error near unexpected token `GUILE,'
>>> ./configure: line 6755: `PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GUILE, guile-2.0 >= 2.0.5)'
>>
>> Yes, you need to have pkg.m4, as provided by pkg-config, in the
>> ACLOCAL_PATH.
>>
>>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2013-06/msg00037.html

[...]

> bluet@GuixOnUbuntu64:~$ dpkg -L pkg-config |grep pkg.m4
> /usr/share/aclocal/pkg.m4

Yes, but the Automake you installed by hand (in /usr/local I suppose?)
doesn’t look for .m4 files under /usr/share.  Thus you need to:

  export ACLOCAL PATH=/usr/share/aclocal

>>> 2. guix-0.2
>>> Test begin:
>>>   test-name: "package-field-location"
>>> Test end:
>>>   result-kind: fail
>>>   actual-value: #f
>>
>> You’re using Guile 2.0.5, right?
>
> bluet@GuixOnUbuntu64:~$ guile --version|head -n 1
> guile (GNU Guile) 2.0.5-deb+1-1
>
>> Can you try the patch below, run ‘make check’,
>> and report the “;;; (name” and “;;; (version” lines from test-suite.log?
>
> Hmmm there's no line with keyword 'version'.
>
> bluet@GuixOnUbuntu64:~/guix-0.2$ grep -P "(name|ver)" test-suite.log
> ;;; (name #<<location> file: "gnu/packages/bootstrap.scm" line: 188
> column: 5>)

This should be addressed by commit ee48b28.

(It’s a harmless issue that would only make the source location in
messages reported by ‘guix refresh’ slightly less precise.)

Thanks,
Ludo’.