On my i686 standalone Guix system, using Guix v0.7-642-g3b50925 to build its 'guix' package (0.7.14e84b2) fails, due to a failed test. Here's the relevant section from gexp.log:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- Test begin: test-name: "gexp->derivation" source-file: "tests/gexp.scm" source-line: 227 source-form: (test-assert "gexp->derivation" (run-with-store %store (mlet* %store-monad ((file (text-file "foo" "Hello, world!")) (exp -> (gexp (begin (mkdir (ungexp output)) (chdir (ungexp output)) (symlink (string-append (ungexp %bootstrap-guile) "/bin/guile") "foo") (symlink (ungexp file) (ungexp output "2nd"))))) (drv (gexp->derivation "foo" exp)) (out -> (derivation->output-path drv)) (out2 -> (derivation->output-path drv "2nd")) (done (built-derivations (list drv))) (refs ((store-lift references) out)) (refs2 ((store-lift references) out2)) (guile (package-file %bootstrap-guile "bin/guile"))) (return (and (string=? (readlink (string-append out "/foo")) guile) (string=? (readlink out2) file) (equal? refs (list (dirname (dirname guile)))) (equal? refs2 (list file))))) #:guile-for-build (%guile-for-build))) Test end: result-kind: fail actual-value: #f actual-error: (srfi-34 #<condition &nix-protocol-error [message: "path `/tmp/nix-build-guix-0.7.14e84b2.drv-0/source/test-tmp/store/ry17r3hm48ckcchz9ls6yhd00alyiipx-foo' is not valid" status: 1] a587d68>) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- The 'guix-daemon' used to do this failed build is also 0.7.14e84b2. The 'guix' used to do this failed build was v0.7-642-g3b50925 plus one local patch that adds "--with-default-trust-store-file=/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt" to the GnuTLS configure flags. Mark