John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> writes:

> On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 09:18:30PM -0700, Chris Marusich wrote:
>      Hi,
>      
>      The manual says ((guix) Building from Git):
>      
>      --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>         The easiest way to set up a development environment for Guix is, of
>      course, by using Guix!  The following command starts a new shell where
>      all the dependencies and appropriate environment variables are set up to
>      hack on Guix:
>      
>           guix environment guix
>      --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>      
>      After running this command successfully, I get the following error while
>      running ./bootstrap:
>      
>      --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>      + exec autoreconf -vfi
>      ./bootstrap: line 5: exec: autoreconf: not found
>      --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>      
>      This makes me wonder: has something changed, and the manual is now
>      incorrect?
>      
>
> I don't think so.   Running ./bootstrap is not part of the normal process for *building*
> guix - only for bootstrapping.  But you are right - it is common to want to do that.
> For this reason I often run:
>
>  guix environment guix --ad-hoc automake autoconf texinfo help2man
>
>
> But perhaps you are right - the manual might want to mention this.
>
> J'

That makes sense.  I feel like it used to provide all the dependencies,
including autoconf etc., but that was months ago, and I might be
mis-remembering.  It works fine when I add the needed bootstrap
dependencies with --ad-hoc.

-- 
Chris