Thanks for your help.
Giovanni Biscuolo writes: > Hi mikadoZero, > > mikadoZero <mikadoz...@yandex.com> writes: > >> I am trying to follow the instruction in the Contributing section of the >> manual, as I want to submit some patches. Following "14.1 Building from >> Git" I am getting an error when running `./bootstrap`. > > I'm also learning to build from git but I never had such problems with > ./bootstrap > > I'll try to reproduce your bug... > >> `guix describe` >> guix 19c0cdb >> repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git >> branch: master >> commit: 19c0cdb9e6271956015232421ef7f63a1ad001ae > > AFAIU it does not matter what Guix version is in your user profile since > following "7.2 Running Guix Before It Is Installed" you will «test the > changes made in your local source tree checkout without actually > installing them. So that you can distinguish between your “end-user” hat > and your “motley” costume.» > > so in this case is useful to show your "git describe" and not "guix > describe": > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > giovanni@anemone: git describe > v0.16.0-3520-gc0d43f6223 > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > AFAIU that means: version 0.16.0 and 3520th commit, current commit > "c0d43f6223" (I miss the meaning of g before c0d43f6223) > > that is: my “motley” costume will use c0d43f6223 for development > > compare it with my current guix version (used by my end-user costume): > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > Generation 5 Mar 16 2019 13:09:52 (current) > guix 703a095 > repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git > branch: master > commit: 703a095e7ec3c8247deb527f027615e5e34fe753 > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > `git describe` v0.16.0-3578-gfa5a25386 >> Here is what I am doing that leads to the error. >> >> `git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git` >> >> `cd guix` >> >> `guix environment guix` >> >> Then I run `./bootstrap` and it gives me this error output: > > I did it again (it's the third time I run ./bootstrap in my dev > environment) and it succeeded with no errors > Did get `./bootstrap` to work thanks to Ricardo Wurmus's suggestion to remove environment variables from my .zshrc. But I am not getting an error with configure. Details are in my reply to Ricardo's message. > [...] > >> configure.ac:88: error: possibly undefined macro: PKG_CHECK_MODULES >> If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. >> See the Autoconf documentation. > > this error is documented in "7.1 Building from Git" (where did you get > 14.1 numbering in the subject?) and the solution is described there also > I am reading the manual in Emacs's info reader and that is the number that it gives that section of the manual. > anyway I don't understand why this happens in a "environment guix" > > I'm in this environment > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > giovanni@anemone: env | grep GUIX_ENV > GUIX_ENVIRONMENT=/gnu/store/kjmqpchkfy8rvv19jvd14q40shm9fk2p-profile > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > in this environment ACLOCAL_PATH is defined as > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > giovanni@anemone: env | grep AC > ACLOCAL_PATH=/gnu/store/kjmqpchkfy8rvv19jvd14q40shm9fk2p-profile/share/aclocal > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > AFAIU in "environment guix" all needed devel tools should be installed > and related evironment variables set up > > are you sure you are running "./bootstrap" in the environment? > In my reply to Ricardo's message I have included the output of `printenv`. > [...] > > HTH! > Gio > > [1] > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Building-from-Git.html#Building-from-Git
