Jan Nieuwenhuizen <jann...@gnu.org> writes: > Hi, > > I tried to get going with guix and again I was frustrated. Is there > a tutorial or recipe that helps newbies to get started? > > [Thinking that guix is a guile script, it very much surprised me that > I need to bootstrap, configure and make.]
Guile source files are compiled to .go files, though they don't have to be. Things will just be slower to load initially. In addition to Scheme files, there are C++ source files to compile from the upstream Nix project, so make is absolutely needed. The configure phase is needed not only to check for dependencies, but to pre-process *.in files like guix/config.scm.in. > > Anyway, below is what I tried [ Snipped long shell output ] It looks like you've skipped over some of the installation steps described in the manual. It looks like you have some permission errors, among other things. See the "Installation" section for the details. I also noticed that you resorted to "make install" to try to get things to work. You can start the guix daemon without installing by running something like: sudo ./pre-inst-env guix-daemon --build-users-group=guix-builder The above snippet assumes that you have already set up build users under the group 'guix-builder'. Hope this helps! -- David Thompson Web Developer - Free Software Foundation - http://fsf.org GPG Key: 0FF1D807 Support the FSF: https://fsf.org/donate
