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From: Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org>
Subject: Re: guix can't find (gnutls)
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2017 12:10:42 +0100
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To: Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com>
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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.

Thanks for your reply.
Fede