Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org> writes:

> On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 9:38 AM, Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org> writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> for some reason Guix can't find (gnutls) despite the module being
>>> installed and usable in Guile:
>>>
>> Are you running guixsd or runnign guix on a foreign distro?
>
> I'm on Debian testing.
>
>> I personally run guix on debian and had the same problem. I solved the
>> problem by building gnutls from source and installing it into
>> /usr/local. The problem is debian's gnutls doesn't contain
>> gnutls-guile.
>>
>> One might suggests to install guix's gnutls and build guix using it, but
>> it doesnt't work for me, so I resort to building from source.
>
> I had a similar experience: I installed gnutls manually in /usr/local
> and successfully compiled Guix.
>
> However, for various reasons, I then wanted to recompile Guix with
> Guix (and remove the manually installed gnutls and Debian Guile) and
> that's where I was struggling to make things work. I fixed things as
> in my reply to Alex Kost.
>
I would try Alex Kost's method too, installing gnutls manually has the
disadvantage of needing to track security update manually. I adopt that
method only because I don't know a better one. Thanks Alex.

> Thanks for your reply.
> Fede