On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 05:20:23PM +1000, Ben Woodcroft wrote: > >One of the benefits of Guix is that you can press Ctrl-C any time > >without consequences (I do it regularly).
> Thanks for the update. I knew this was true of installing packages, > just wasn't sure about other operations. It is not true for compiling Guix the first time from source. Once you are running guix itself to install/compile packages is a transaction. Sometimes annoyingly so because it keeps downloading and building the same tarballs until completion. > >This tells that your gnutls misses guile bindings (it may be that your > >distro compiles gnutls with "--disable-guile" option). I think it > >should be fixed if you install gnutls with guix: "guix package -i > >gnutls". > This does indeed fix the error, and now I'm all set. Thanks. Guile is everywhere, even GNU make: https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Guile-Integration.html Blessed is the man in whose spirit there is no guile ;). Pj.
