From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Vong Subject: Re: guix can't find (gnutls) Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2017 19:10:43 +0800 Message-ID: <87o9ybmxfw.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87bmuhghgr.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36495) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cbmcy-0003Lu-Jn for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2017 06:11:05 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cbmcv-0006bE-Em for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2017 06:11:04 -0500 Received: from mail-pg0-x242.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c05::242]:36003) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cbmcv-0006ZI-9K for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2017 06:11:01 -0500 Received: by mail-pg0-x242.google.com with SMTP id 75so21637pgf.3 for ; Thu, 09 Feb 2017 03:10:59 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: (Federico Beffa's message of "Sun, 5 Feb 2017 12:10:42 +0100") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Federico Beffa Cc: Guix-devel --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Federico Beffa writes: > On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 9:38 AM, Alex Vong wrote: >> Federico Beffa 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 --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEEdZDkzSn0Cycogr9IxYq4eRf1Ea4FAlicTjMACgkQxYq4eRf1 Ea6A9A//br3AnUKBZfEskbM2uYI8r1XA0jmcNaediWYd+oOCxbVVb/iHxdmM2bY4 NNkfDdoW9aXTMUjJOzFwPBcVTBz3C7LEv2Cfqi1Ab68R25V9uc1VYgQyiXfrgWKZ ErOCB9LswZQjzHs0tty87WeB+rzSH0P5PvEp8nPV5ua9VoYREW8qPp8r7LDgtB4K Pxf6p831PqfekMyPzL5xVcfcC4VCj+Xtv9toMSzp3Jnm4J7Ooj1ruxdOoWxdOgoG HyAi0tY65vGqHp957XJQo8stUASeUo+WOxq5LFjcNVBPfoCSov1Kdu78kzddipyR f/01X04dVoRGTIX/rRId+GSea5xv9KkxeQ7jine3BLwz9w/LboXmnDH6IDj6F5gW HwmNWYZoe7YOHVmH1+OMXX/cR6jGh+Ut2TUSefOoD+1LkSmQFrbu7pBaTjkgbzKH 4XDv0XMI1bX72/8ThcGUE+/UzW0COTg2wwZROTA6n777CPRIjD3pE+rbp4kytCHJ Sly2FjmU4WbwP0iY19sj7KCihxjcdilhR4tZ8JhZS77HRzL0VuWBPv9eFbXcghba 0J/X4J9QSjLBldDoq49IhIY4/xsDIcp8KC5NNmAuN1JtcLRYN8ZN31LyO+XEscUY gfNrcHLpPxUeHNeRFlGb6D04mO4e5IVZKfgeU4dJgUK4dPg2eTA= =z7J2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--