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From: David Craven <david@craven.ch>
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Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 12:27:40 +0100
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To: Ben Woodcroft <b.woodcroft@uq.edu.au>
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Hi Ben,

The problem is that binutils isn't retained. This is due to:

(string-append "--default-ar=" gcc "/bin/ar").

This is a bug in the rustc package, which I haven't fixed yet.

To work around this issue you should be able to do

guix environment --ad-hoc binutils rustc

Thanks!

David