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From: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
Subject: Re: Errors encountered in building guix from source.
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2018 21:45:50 +0100
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To: Fis Trivial <ybbs.daans@hotmail.com>
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On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 08:16:04PM +0000, Fis Trivial wrote:
> I am currently running guix on top of Fedora 26. This is a mix of several
> problems, and possibly contains bugs in guix, I am not sure if I have done
> anything wrong. So I will try to describe them in order. If you believe I
> should make separate threads or fill a bug report, just tell me to.
> 
> 
> I tried to build guix from git repo according to this menu:
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Building-from-Git
> 
> * Do as the menu said
> So I ran the following command in sequence:
> $ guix environment guix --ad-hoc help2man git strace
> $ ./bootstrap
> $ ./configure --localstatedir=/var

This looks inadequate to me. Try my

https://gitlab.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/blob/master/INSTALL.org

See building guix from guix - the bullet proof way. It builds Guix
inside Guix tooling - no leakage.

Pj.