I just ran the following command on my Thinkpad X200 running GuixSD: ./pre-inst-env guix environment guile --ad-hoc autoconf automake libtool flex gettext
Using the guix client from a git checkout at v0.13.0-1496-gcfd6a3b1e, and using guix-daemon from guix-0.13.0-3.b547349. This command took approximately 20 minutes of CPU time before downloading anything except possibly some NARINFOs. During this initial 20 minutes of CPU-bound activity, the only output was 4 occurrences of the following message: substitute: updating list of substitutes from 'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org'... 100.0% The CPU time was roughly evenly split between the following two processes: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 8456 57.0 0.1 37420 7788 ? Rs 22:27 11:31 \_ /gnu/store/gkv8zl774h2qpa89mrf6d74fry3rsnpa-guix-0.13.0-3.b547349/bin/guix-daemon 8450 guixbuild --max-silent-time 0 --timeout 0 --substitute-urls https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org --gc-keep-derivations=yes --gc-keep-outputs=yes root 8457 45.0 0.9 124040 38556 ? Rl 22:27 9:03 \_ /gnu/store/z16li2znnk2pdgrg3ldm34k669pcrdcx-guile-2.2.2/bin/guile --no-auto-compile /gnu/store/gkv8zl774h2qpa89mrf6d74fry3rsnpa-guix-0.13.0-3.b547349/bin/.guix-real substitute --query --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Immediately before this, I had run the same command but without the final "gettext" argument, and it ran quite quickly. I've run a similar command in the last couple of weeks, with the "gettext" argument, and as I recall it ran reasonably quickly as well. Mark
