Re: Linker error on installing gcc

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Chris Dale <adventureonthehighseas@gmail.com> skribis:

>>
>> There’s no actual error message here.  Could you look for the full log
>> under /nix/var/log/nix/drvs, and check if there’s an error message
>> somewhere above?  (It may have been built with ‘make -jX’, so the output
>> is intermingled.)
>>
>
> All that was above what I posted was the output of a linking command that
> worked correctly. What would I be looking for, for error message syntax?

Something starting with “error:”, I guess.

Also, are you running guix-daemon as root, with a special-purpose build
user group, as noted in the “Installation” section of the manual?

>> > x86_64 architecture
>>
>> Normally it should be using pre-compiled binaries from hydra.gnu.org by
>> default.
>>
>> What do you have in /nix/var/nix/substitute-binary/cache?
>>
>
> I have no directory /nix/var at all - just /nix/store. That may be related!

The actual directory name depends on your --localstatedir or --prefix
option passed to ‘configure’.  Can you check the value of
‘localstatedir’ in the config.log file?

TIA!

Ludo’.