That fixed tcsh, thanks. Here is the next stop - glib (libgio), seems to be failing its unit tests:

....
PASS: defaultvalue 80 /Default Values/GZlibCompressor
PASS: defaultvalue 81 /Default Values/GZlibDecompressor
tap-driver.sh: internal error getting exit status
tap-driver.sh: fatal: I/O or internal error
Makefile:3751: recipe for target 'defaultvalue.log' failed
make[8]: *** [defaultvalue.log] Error 1
make[8]: Leaving directory '/tmp/nix-build-glib-2.44.0.drv-0/glib-2.44.0/gio/tests'
Makefile:3653: recipe for target 'check-TESTS' failed
make[7]: *** [check-TESTS] Error 2
make[7]: Leaving directory '/tmp/nix-build-glib-2.44.0.drv-0/glib-2.44.0/gio/tests'
Makefile:4353: recipe for target 'check-am' failed
make[6]: *** [check-am] Error 2
make[6]: Leaving directory '/tmp/nix-build-glib-2.44.0.drv-0/glib-2.44.0/gio/tests'
Makefile:3440: recipe for target 'check-recursive' failed
make[5]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
make[5]: Leaving directory '/tmp/nix-build-glib-2.44.0.drv-0/glib-2.44.0/gio/tests'

Thanks,
Alex

On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
Alexander Vorobiev <alexander.vorobiev@gmail.com> skribis:

> Pulled, restarted. The next stop is tcsh. The tarball at ftp.astron.com s
> gone, replaced with more recent version...

Fixed, thanks.

> One observation: apparently coreutils refuses to be built as root so I had
> to create a build user/group to give to guix-daemon.

Right, and both the manual and guix-daemon warn you against running
guix-daemon as root without --build-users-group.  :-)

Ludo’.