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Subject: Re: guix environment guix doesn't provide guix dependencies?
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 23:20:24 +0200
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Hi Chris,

Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> skribis:

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

[...]

>> I don't think so.   Running ./bootstrap is not part of the normal proces=
s 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.

In fact there=E2=80=99s a small time window during which =E2=80=9Cguix envi=
ronment guix=E2=80=9D
doesn=E2=80=99t provide autoconf et al.: it=E2=80=99s when the =E2=80=98gui=
x=E2=80=99 variable in (gnu
packages package-management) refers to a released tarball instead of a
Git checkout, since a build from tarball doesn=E2=80=99t depend on autoconf=
 et
al.

So if you run =E2=80=9Cguix environment guix=E2=80=9D on a commit different=
 from
v0.11.0 + 1, you effectively get all the dependencies.

I admit this is a bit confusing.  Not sure how to document/improve that.

Ideas?

Ludo=E2=80=99.