Re: Guix and $XDG_DATA_DIRS

[HiPhish <hiphish@posteo.de>]

On Friday, 12 April 2019 11:11:31 CEST Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> HiPhish <hiphish@posteo.de> writes:
> 
> You shouldn’t set this one.  If you’re concerned about GCC not finding
> libraries you should use LIBRARY_PATH, not LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
> 
> When installing gcc-toolchain, however, CPATH and LIBRARY_PATH should be
> set automatically.
> 
> Generally, the search path variables are set automatically when an
> installed package declares a search path.
> 
> GUIX_LOCPATH, SSL_CERT_DIR, SSL_CERT_FILE, and GIT_SSL_CAINFO are not
> search paths and are thus not set automatically.

Thank you, installing gcc-toolchain did the trick for C libraries. I was using 
the GCC that cam with my distro, but I might as well use GCC from Guix now. 
That still leaves $XDG_DATA_DIRS open, there is probably another package that 
I would have to install.