Re: build issues with "make dist" generated tarball

[Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>]

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On 2021-11-13, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> Which generates an upstream tarball, in my case,
> guix-1.3.0.8337-2bb0d.tar.gz, nice ...
>
> Then I try to build the .deb package for Debian using the tarball, but
> various guix.*.info pages fail to build following some odd warnings:
>
>   guix.fa.texi:14464: warning: node `Btrfs file system' unreferenced
>   guix.pt_BR.texi:35375: @include: could not find he-config-bare-bones.scm
>   guix.pt_BR.texi:14537: warning: node `Btrfs file system' unreferenced
>   guix.it.texi:35302: @include: could not find he-config-bare-bones.scm
>   guix.it.texi:14466: warning: node `Btrfs file system' unreferenced
>   make[3]: *** [Makefile:4684: doc/guix.de.info] Error 1
>   make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
>   guix.es.texi:37090: @include: could not find he-config-bare-bones.scm
>   guix.es.texi:15281: warning: node `Sistema de archivos Btrfs'
>   unreferenced

Fixed by e95acc0919e5018a715bc62b0a3c980c9715fcc3, thanks roptat!

After some repeated experimentation, I also figured how to get the
correct environment to run "make dist" without leaking bits of the
Debian environment into the build environment:

  guix shell --container --pure --development guix guix git imagemagick perl glibc-locales glibc


I had to specify both glibc-locales and glibc in order to get the
en_US.UTF-8 locale, used during the build process to ensure a UTF-8
locale. (On a related note, getting a C.UTF-8 locale enabled in glibc
upstream seems to have had activity as recently as April!
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17318)

live well,
  vagrant

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