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From: HiPhish <hiphish@posteo.de>
Subject: Re: Guix and $XDG_DATA_DIRS
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 14:20:56 +0200
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To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
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On Friday, 12 April 2019 11:11:31 CEST Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> HiPhish <hiphish@posteo.de> writes:
>=20
> You shouldn=E2=80=99t set this one.  If you=E2=80=99re concerned about GC=
C not finding
> libraries you should use LIBRARY_PATH, not LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
>=20
> When installing gcc-toolchain, however, CPATH and LIBRARY_PATH should be
> set automatically.
>=20
> Generally, the search path variables are set automatically when an
> installed package declares a search path.
>=20
> 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 us=
ing=20
the GCC that cam with my distro, but I might as well use GCC from Guix now.=
=20
That still leaves $XDG_DATA_DIRS open, there is probably another package th=
at=20
I would have to install.