Hi Fredrik, Excellent advice, and I was able to identify the culprit.
Here's a simple reproducible example $ guix shell --container gcc-toolchain [env]$ g++ main.cpp [env]$ exit $ guix shell --container gcc-toolchain gfortran-toolchain [env]$ g++ main.cpp In file included from /gnu/store/68l504nyvms77jzfg9yf4njiyfbi8gm2-profile/include/c++/bits/move.h:57, from /gnu/store/68l504nyvms77jzfg9yf4njiyfbi8gm2-profile/include/c++/bits/exception_ptr.h:43, from /gnu/store/68l504nyvms77jzfg9yf4njiyfbi8gm2-profile/include/c++/exception:153, from /gnu/store/68l504nyvms77jzfg9yf4njiyfbi8gm2-profile/include/c++/ios:39, from /gnu/store/68l504nyvms77jzfg9yf4njiyfbi8gm2-profile/include/c++/ostream:38, from /gnu/store/68l504nyvms77jzfg9yf4njiyfbi8gm2-profile/include/c++/iostream:39, from main.cpp:1: /gnu/store/68l504nyvms77jzfg9yf4njiyfbi8gm2-profile/include/c++/type_traits:732:26: error: expected identifier before '(' token 732 | _GLIBCXX20_DEPRECATED("use is_standard_layout && is_trivial instead") | ^ /gnu/store/68l504nyvms77jzfg9yf4njiyfbi8gm2-profile/include/c++/type_traits:732:27: error: expected unqualified-id before string constant 732 | _GLIBCXX20_DEPRECATED("use is_standard_layout && is_trivial instead") | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ /gnu/store/68l504nyvms77jzfg9yf4njiyfbi8gm2-profile/include/c++/type_traits:732:27: error: expected ')' before string constant 732 | _GLIBCXX20_DEPRECATED("use is_standard_layout && is_trivial instead") | ~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | ) /gnu/store/68l504nyvms77jzfg9yf4njiyfbi8gm2-profile/include/c++/type_traits:3154:25: error: expected unqualified-id before string constant 3154 | _GLIBCXX20_DEPRECATED("use is_standard_layout_v && is_trivial_v instead") | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ /gnu/store/68l504nyvms77jzfg9yf4njiyfbi8gm2-profile/include/c++/type_traits:3154:25: error: expected ')' before string constant 3154 | _GLIBCXX20_DEPRECATED("use is_standard_layout_v && is_trivial_v instead") | ~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | ) I also confirmed that I was able to compile that source code by simply commenting gfortran-toolchain in my system manifest. Isn't this weird though? What if I need both? Laurent