On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 09:28:24PM -0500, Kete wrote:
     On Thursday, January 02, 2014 06:44:00 AM Nikita Karetnikov wrote:
     > $ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/guix.git
     > $ cd guix
     > $ ./bootstrap && ./configure --localstatedir=/nix/var && make && make check
     > 
     > (See ‘HACKING’ for more information.)
     > 
     > Then you could add a recipe (i.e., the definition of a package) to
     > ‘guix/gnu/packages’.  For instance, this commit [1] adds the elfutils
     > recipe to ‘gnu/packages/elf.scm’.
     > 
     > Did I forget to address anything?
     
     I copied my package definition to gnu/packages and added a line for it in gnu-
     system.am. Then, I ran './pre-inst-env guix build zsh' and got this output: 
     guix build: error: failed to connect to `/nix/var/nix/daemon-socket/socket': 
     No such file or directory

This would suggest that you haven't got a guix daemon running.

Install guix and set up the daemon as described in Chapter 2 of the GUIX manual.

J'

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