On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 09:13:22PM +0200, Adam Mazurkiewicz wrote: > Hi Florian, thank you for your replies. Well, during my attempt to > prepare an environment to use the prefix ./pre-inst-env, I had to > install a package guile. Because it is told in Contributing Guix > article: >
`guix environment guix` temporarily installs all software required to build guix. I believe this help thread reveals various shortcomings of the Guix manual. I had hoped referring to the manual would suffice, but it obviously is not organized well enough. > Building from Git: -> "When building Guix from a checkout, the > following packages are required in addition to those mentioned in the > installation instructions (see Requirements)." -> Requirements -> GNU > Guile, version 2.2.x; > You do *not* need guile in your config, but in one of the profiles that are active when building guix, i.e. you can just run cd path/to/guix … # appropriate `git pull --rebase`, `git am ….patch` invocations guix environment guix ./bootstrap ./configure --localstatedir=/var make sudo -E ./pre-inst-env guix system reconfigure /etc/config I am sorry for all the trouble. I thought you were originally applying the patches in a mostly correct way, just on a too old Guix git revision. Regards, Florian
