>>> Does the installation seem sane, basically?  Do ‘guix build’, ‘guix
>>> package’ etc. work somehow, or not even?

>> Turns out I can’t even build ‘hello’

> Please say exactly why you “can’t”.

Currently, it fails due to the “bad file descriptor” error.

> Why the hell do you keep deleting the store?  :-)

I want to make sure that ‘prefetch’ downloads all the needed tarballs.
Since I don’t use Guix on that machine, I delete the store each time
instead of using a different prefix.

>> SQLite header and source version mismatch
>> 2011-11-01 00:52:41 c7c6050ef060877ebe77b41d959e9df13f8c9b5e
>> 2013-09-03 17:11:13 7dd4968f235d6e1ca9547cda9cf3bd570e1609ef

>> This was discussed before and should be fixed by upgrading SQLite.

> OK.  Can you report how things go one that is fixed?

> 1. Run ‘git show c0412fedf | patch -p1 -R’, and then confirm that the
>    problem disappears.

> 2. Run ‘git reset --hard’, edit config.h, and comment out the HAVE_
>    macros corresponding to the functions listed in c0412fedf, one at a
>    time.

What would be a reliable way to run the testsuite after each of the
above steps?  Would ‘make clean && autoreconf -vfi && make && make
check’ be sufficient?