From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pjotr Prins Subject: Re: Building GUIX Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 15:02:40 +0200 Message-ID: <20140508130240.GA13827@thebird.nl> References: <20140508123200.GB13782@thebird.nl> <20140508125254.GB7094@debian> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49511) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WiOCL-0002F6-6T for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 May 2014 09:17:23 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WiOCE-00089x-Uc for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 May 2014 09:17:17 -0400 Received: from mail.thebird.nl ([95.154.203.175]:35294) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WiOCE-00089g-Pd for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 May 2014 09:17:10 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140508125254.GB7094@debian> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Andreas Enge Cc: guix-devel On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 02:52:54PM +0200, Andreas Enge wrote: > On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 02:32:00PM +0200, Pjotr Prins wrote: > > I am not having much luck installing GUIX because of the long list of > > version specific dependencies. The best route, so far, is installing > > Nix 1.7 first and then try to bootstrap using those tools. Now I have > > What do you mean by "version specific dependencies"? I have no problems > on my debian stable, which certainly does not have the newest version of > anything... On a fresh Debian I could make it work. On an aging centos it is too hard. But that is beside the point, I am almost there with Nixpkgs available. My question is How do I tell 'configure' what guile to use? Pj.