I don't know the reason, my guix store has broken and can't build emacs-snapshot, I remember it it the problem of pipline. When I do the below job: git clone file:///path/to/my-emacs /path/to/emacs-new --depth=1 the new repo can build :-) .... so I think the problem may be the size of repo.... At 2015-11-12 20:49:13, "ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic" <=?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=)> wrote: >tumashu skribis: > >> When I use the below command to build emacs from emacs.git >> >> guix build emacs --with-source=./emacs (emacs dir is git repo) >> >> Build fail, after i remove the .git, build success. > >Could you explain how it fails exactly, and post the tail of the >build log? > >> The repo of emacs.git is 1.5G, is it the reason? > >I don¡¯t think so. That certainly makes it a bad option, though. > >Thanks, >Ludo¡¯.