Re: guix builds the old guix version

[Felix Lechner via <help-guix@gnu.org>]

Hi Adam

On Wed, Nov 9, 2022 at 1:09 AM Adam Kandur <kefironpremise@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi guix!
> I pulled the guix channel, reconfigured my system and cleaned my storage.
> But when I am trying to "guix build guix", I am getting this version
> guix-1.3.0-32.682639c which is old. What I need to do to build an
> actual guix version?

You may wish to try the instructions here. [1] Please make sure to
also have a look at this link (which is mentioned on that page, except
I gave you the 'devel' link for the latest version of the
documentation). [2]

In particular, you will want to run something like 'guix environment
guix' followed by './bootstrap' and './configure
--localstatedir=/var'. After a 'make' you can then issue commands like
'./pre-inst-env guix build guix' (or any other package from Git).

Hope that helps.

Kind regards
Felix Lechner

[1] https://guix.gnu.org/cookbook/en/html_node/Direct-checkout-hacking.html
[2] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Contributing.html