Hi Paul,
Paul Garlick <pgarl...@tourbillion-technology.com> skribis:
>> ‘guix pull’ will happily perform the transition.
>
> For me, I have an older Guix (16th May) that fails to install guile-
> gcrypt. As root:
>
> $ guix --version
> guix (GNU Guix) 6f84dc4314cd84550d9fc7e7afa11c495edc45a5
>
> When I try 'guix pull' there is an attempt to build guile-gcrypt
> locally that fails with the message './configure: No such file or
> directory'. I can see that the build procedure moves from the 'unpack'
> phase straight to the 'patch-usr-bin-file' phase with no 'bootstrap'
> phase in between.
Hmm…
> Aha, another chicken-and-egg, I thought; my older Guix does not have a
> 'bootstrap' phase. However, I can see that the commit for adding the
> new phase was made on 11th March, so perhaps 'guix pull' is failing for
> a different reason.
Indeed, that may well be the reason. Can you try to apply the patch
below in a local branch, and then run “make as-derivation”?
TIA, and apologies for the breakage!
Ludo’.
diff --git a/build-aux/build-self.scm b/build-aux/build-self.scm
index f472724f1..f91b43987 100644
--- a/build-aux/build-self.scm
+++ b/build-aux/build-self.scm
@@ -216,6 +216,16 @@ person's version identifier."
"1gir7ifknbmbvjlql5j6wzk7bkb5lnmq80q59ngz43hhpclrk5k3"))
(file-name (string-append name "-" version ".tar.gz"))))
(build-system gnu-build-system)
+ (arguments
+ ;; The 'bootstrap' phase appeared in 'core-updates', which was merged
+ ;; into 'master' ca. June 2018.
+ '(#:phases (modify-phases %standard-phases
+ (delete 'bootstrap)
+ (add-before 'configure 'bootstrap
+ (lambda _
+ (unless (zero? (system* "autoreconf" "-vfi"))
+ (error "autoreconf failed"))
+ #t)))))
(native-inputs
`(("pkg-config" ,(specification->package "pkg-config"))
("autoconf" ,(specification->package "autoconf"))
