Re: Building GUIX

[Cyril Roelandt <tipecaml@gmail.com>]

On 05/08/2014 02:32 PM, 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
> 
>    nix-env --version
>    nix-env (Nix) 1.7
>    [pprins@blauwspar guix]$ ls /nix/store/*guile*
>    /nix/store/gkm53ax9j38r9pvl5jq3dsj2if79rdml-guile-2.0.9.tar.xz.drv
>    /nix/store/j9ifci462jzph8pgiwbq61gq1x3plb6r-guile-2.0.9.drv
> 
>    /nix/store/1asl58lg6z3pg6icard31lnb24j0ndr0-guile-2.0.9:
>    bin  include  lib  nix-support  share
> 
> ./bootstrap gives
> 
>   autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
>   autoreconf: running: autopoint --force
>   autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4
>   autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
>   autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool
>   autoreconf: running: /nix/store/k2k666rwfr7s8daf03x3fymzni9fdp8q-autoconf-2.69/bin/autoconf --force
>   autoreconf: running: /nix/store/k2k666rwfr7s8daf03x3fymzni9fdp8q-autoconf-2.69/bin/autoheader --force
>   autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --force-missing
>   configure.ac:18: warning: The 'AM_PROG_MKDIR_P' macro is deprecated, and its use is discouraged.
>   configure.ac:18: You should use the Autoconf-provided 'AC_PROG_MKDIR_P' macro instead,
>   configure.ac:18: and use '$(MKDIR_P)' instead of '$(mkdir_p)'in your Makefile.am files.
>   autoreconf: Leaving directory `.'
> 
> which is probably harmless and now ./configure does not find guile, even though
> 
>   which guile
>     ~/.nix-profile/bin/guile
> 
>   ls /nix/store/*guile*
>   /nix/store/gkm53ax9j38r9pvl5jq3dsj2if79rdml-guile-2.0.9.tar.xz.drv
>   /nix/store/j9ifci462jzph8pgiwbq61gq1x3plb6r-guile-2.0.9.drv
> 
>   /nix/store/1asl58lg6z3pg6icard31lnb24j0ndr0-guile-2.0.9:
>   bin  include  lib  nix-support  share
> 
>   checking for the Guix system type... x86_64-linux
>   checking for the store directory... /gnu/store
>   ./configure: line 6775: syntax error near unexpected token `GUILE,'
>   ./configure: line 6775: `PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GUILE, guile-2.0 >= 2.0.5)'
> 
> Any switch that I can pass in to make this work?
> 


Isn't this rather an issue with the PKG_CHECK_MODULES macro? Where is
pkg.m4 on your system?


Cyril.