That fixed tcsh, thanks. Here is the next stop - glib (libgio), seems to be failing its unit tests: .... PASS: defaultvalue 80 /Default Values/GZlibCompressor PASS: defaultvalue 81 /Default Values/GZlibDecompressor tap-driver.sh: internal error getting exit status tap-driver.sh: fatal: I/O or internal error Makefile:3751: recipe for target 'defaultvalue.log' failed make[8]: *** [defaultvalue.log] Error 1 make[8]: Leaving directory '/tmp/nix-build-glib-2.44.0.drv-0/glib-2.44.0/gio/tests' Makefile:3653: recipe for target 'check-TESTS' failed make[7]: *** [check-TESTS] Error 2 make[7]: Leaving directory '/tmp/nix-build-glib-2.44.0.drv-0/glib-2.44.0/gio/tests' Makefile:4353: recipe for target 'check-am' failed make[6]: *** [check-am] Error 2 make[6]: Leaving directory '/tmp/nix-build-glib-2.44.0.drv-0/glib-2.44.0/gio/tests' Makefile:3440: recipe for target 'check-recursive' failed make[5]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1 make[5]: Leaving directory '/tmp/nix-build-glib-2.44.0.drv-0/glib-2.44.0/gio/tests' Thanks, Alex On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Alexander Vorobiev skribis: > > > Pulled, restarted. The next stop is tcsh. The tarball at ftp.astron.com > s > > gone, replaced with more recent version... > > Fixed, thanks. > > > One observation: apparently coreutils refuses to be built as root so I > had > > to create a build user/group to give to guix-daemon. > > Right, and both the manual and guix-daemon warn you against running > guix-daemon as root without --build-users-group. :-) > > Ludo’. >