Trying to build guix from master on my 2 boxes, fails with undefined references /home/manolis/git_repos/guix_upstream/./nix/libutil/gcrypt-hash.hh:35: undefined reference to `gcry_md_copy' /home/manolis/git_repos/guix_upstream/./nix/libutil/gcrypt-hash.hh:35: undefined reference to `gcry_md_copy' /home/manolis/git_repos/guix_upstream/./nix/libutil/gcrypt-hash.hh:35: undefined reference to `gcry_md_copy' libutil.a(libutil_a-gcrypt-hash.o): In function `guix_hash_init': /home/manolis/git_repos/guix_upstream/nix/libutil/gcrypt-hash.cc:31: undefined reference to `gcry_md_open' libutil.a(libutil_a-gcrypt-hash.o): In function `guix_hash_final': /home/manolis/git_repos/guix_upstream/nix/libutil/gcrypt-hash.cc:46: undefined reference to `gcry_md_get_algo_dlen' /home/manolis/git_repos/guix_upstream/nix/libutil/gcrypt-hash.cc:45: undefined reference to `gcry_md_read' /home/manolis/git_repos/guix_upstream/nix/libutil/gcrypt-hash.cc:47: undefined reference to `gcry_md_close' libutil.a(libutil_a-gcrypt-hash.o): In function `guix_hash_update': /home/manolis/git_repos/guix_upstream/nix/libutil/gcrypt-hash.cc:38: undefined reference to `gcry_md_write' /home/manolis/git_repos/guix_upstream/nix/nix-daemon/guix-daemon.cc:231: undefined reference to `gcry_check_version' /home/manolis/git_repos/guix_upstream/nix/nix-daemon/guix-daemon.cc:239: undefined reference to `gcry_control' libutil.a(libutil_a-hash.o): In function `guix_hash_context': /home/manolis/git_repos/guix_upstream/./nix/libutil/gcrypt-hash.hh:35: undefined reference to `gcry_md_copy' /home/manolis/git_repos/guix_upstream/./nix/libutil/gcrypt-hash.hh:35: undefined reference to `gcry_md_copy' /home/manolis/git_repos/guix_upstream/./nix/libutil/gcrypt-hash.hh:35: undefined reference to `gcry_md_copy' libutil.a(libutil_a-gcrypt-hash.o): In function `guix_hash_init': /home/manolis/git_repos/guix_upstream/nix/libutil/gcrypt-hash.cc:31: undefined reference to `gcry_md_open' libutil.a(libutil_a-gcrypt-hash.o): In function `guix_hash_final': /home/manolis/git_repos/guix_upstream/nix/libutil/gcrypt-hash.cc:46: undefined reference to `gcry_md_get_algo_dlen' /home/manolis/git_repos/guix_upstream/nix/libutil/gcrypt-hash.cc:45: undefined reference to `gcry_md_read' /home/manolis/git_repos/guix_upstream/nix/libutil/gcrypt-hash.cc:47: undefined reference to `gcry_md_close' libutil.a(libutil_a-gcrypt-hash.o): In function `guix_hash_update': /home/manolis/git_repos/guix_upstream/nix/libutil/gcrypt-hash.cc:38: undefined reference to `gcry_md_write' You can see the error part, better in here http://paste.lisp.org/display/142640/raw I did `grep ^LIBGCRYPT_LIBS config.log` as Ludo suggested in the irc and got > LIBGCRYPT_LIBS='-L -lgcrypt' I am attaching the config.log as well, so you can have a look.