Hi Paul,

Paul Garlick <pgarlick@tourbillion-technology.com> skribis:

>> ‘guix pull’ will happily perform the transition.
>
> For me, I have an older Guix (16th May) that fails to install guile-
> gcrypt.  As root:
>
> $ guix --version
> guix (GNU Guix) 6f84dc4314cd84550d9fc7e7afa11c495edc45a5
>
> When I try 'guix pull' there is an attempt to build guile-gcrypt
> locally that fails with the message './configure:  No such file or
> directory'.  I can see that the build procedure moves from the 'unpack'
> phase straight to the 'patch-usr-bin-file' phase with no 'bootstrap'
> phase in between.

Hmm…

> Aha, another chicken-and-egg, I thought; my older Guix does not have a
> 'bootstrap' phase.  However, I can see that the commit for adding the
> new phase was made on 11th March, so perhaps 'guix pull' is failing for
> a different reason.

Indeed, that may well be the reason.  Can you try to apply the patch
below in a local branch, and then run “make as-derivation”?

TIA, and apologies for the breakage!

Ludo’.