From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice Subject: Re: installing libraries Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 21:18:47 +0200 Message-ID: <31af1589c582dd0fb2682c908030c673@tobias.gr> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58430) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQfyM-0005yF-TB for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2016 15:18:59 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQfyL-00021x-0S for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2016 15:18:57 -0400 In-Reply-To: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Vincent Legoll Cc: help-guix@gnu.org, Help-Guix Vincent, On 2016-07-22 14:36, Vincent Legoll wrote: > I'm trying to do a kernel "make menuconfig", so I have to install some > packages, > make, gcc, binutils, ncurses, glibc, linux-libre-headers... > > but ncurses despite being installed, is not picked up... > vince@guixsd ~/tmp/build-linux$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LIBRARY_PATH > will make it work... I've no experience with forcing LD_LIBRARY_PATH manually like that, but it smells fishy. > Is that the "right" way to do it ? This is how I do it, so it must be the one true way: $ guix environment linux-libre --ad-hoc ncurses ... -- make ... (or drop the ‘-- ...’ for an interactive build shell) That will set LIBRARY_PATH (and everything else) up for you. Kind regards, T G-R -- Sent from a web browser. Excuse my brevity.