From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: alt.ep-co5h6f0t@yopmail.com Subject: Re: which of the two ArchLinux PKGBUILDs is better ? -- guix on Arch su errors Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2016 11:49:21 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52586) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bhZUf-0004hz-ME for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2016 05:50:10 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bhZUa-0005Rl-QA for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2016 05:50:08 -0400 Received: from sewer.dizum.com ([194.109.206.211]:47869) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bhZUa-0005Pj-JC for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2016 05:50:04 -0400 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: help-guix@gnu.org > ArchLinux installers of guix should be aware that the standard size of > /tmp on a 4 GB computer is too small for a full install of guix. > > Please enlarge your swap file and resize /tmp to like 20 GB, else > you will repeatedly break during > > guix package -i hello > > After those mods I successfully ran guix on Manjaro (Arch derivate). What exactly goes wrong when /tmp is less that 4 GB? There are a handful of packages that require more than 4 GB of storage while building, but I don't believe any of them are required to build hello. after guix package -i hello there was 3 hours of building on a desktop machine. looked like a make world build was going on. I wonder why, since on a guixSD it installing hello was much faster. also beginners should be advised to make sure that `locale` does not print any errors. export LC_... vars in bashrc so locale is 100 percent OK BEFORE you go to install guix. Else you will run into `cannot set locale` error repeatedly.