I tried with a checked out guix and I got what follows ... validating RUNPATH of 1 binaries in "/gnu/store/kydnvbnz4vy4b7j2j595jjkc678lvn03-xdg-user-dirs-0.17/bin"... phase `validate-runpath' succeeded after 0.0 seconds starting phase `validate-documentation-location' phase `validate-documentation-location' succeeded after 0.0 seconds starting phase `delete-info-dir-file' phase `delete-info-dir-file' succeeded after 0.0 seconds starting phase `patch-dot-desktop-files' phase `patch-dot-desktop-files' succeeded after 0.0 seconds starting phase `install-license-files' installing 1 license files phase `install-license-files' succeeded after 0.0 seconds starting phase `reset-gzip-timestamps' phase `reset-gzip-timestamps' succeeded after 0.0 seconds starting phase `compress-documentation' compressing documentation in '/gnu/store/kydnvbnz4vy4b7j2j595jjkc678lvn03-xdg-user-dirs-0.17/share/man' with "gzip" and flags ("--best" "--no-name") phase `compress-documentation' succeeded after 0.0 seconds guix system: error: build failed: error parsing derivation `/gnu/store/dp8ywhh22n8ixikqdvsb6w6qbn4iw899-environment.drv': expected string `Derive([' the file /gnu/store/dp8ywhh22n8ixikqdvsb6w6qbn4iw899-environment.drv' seems to be empty. I opened it with nano