Re: [Guix] FTBFS on Ubuntu (12.04) 64bit. Various fatal during install.

2013-07-05 Thread alirioeyng
BlueT - Matthew Lien - 練喆明 bluet.org> writes: > I understand that >=1.12 might be better than 1.11, but is there > something we can do to make it support both? > Or should we just tag it as 'Building Guix from git source is not > supported on Ubuntu' ? I think it's better to invest resources in

Re: [Guix] FTBFS on Ubuntu (12.04) 64bit. Various fatal during install.

2013-07-05 Thread BlueT - Matthew Lien - 練喆明
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Ludo', On 2013年07月06日 04:29, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Yeah, the latest and greatest Autotools are needed for development. > (This will no longer be a problem once you have Guix installed because > that’s what the distro has: the latest and great

Re: [Guix] FTBFS on Ubuntu (12.04) 64bit. Various fatal during install.

2013-07-05 Thread Ludovic Courtès
"BlueT - Matthew Lien - 練喆明" skribis: > 1. git version guix, automake version incompactable. > > It stoped at complaining about automake version at bootstraping. > Guix asks for automake 1.12 but ubuntu has only 1.11 Yeah, the latest and greatest Autotools are needed for development. (This will

Re: "make check" fails with guix-0.2

2013-07-05 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Peter Maloney skribis: > Dear GNU, :-) > "make check" fails with guix-0.2 > > > This is the part that fails (tested by commenting it out): > > (test-assert "filtered-port, file" > (let ((file (search-path %load-path "guix.scm"))) > (call-with-input-file file > (lambda (input

"make check" fails with guix-0.2

2013-07-05 Thread Peter Maloney
Dear GNU, "make check" fails with guix-0.2 This is the part that fails (tested by commenting it out): (test-assert "filtered-port, file" (let ((file (search-path %load-path "guix.scm"))) (call-with-input-file file (lambda (input) (let*-values (((compressed pids1)

Re: "make check" fails with guix-0.2

2013-07-05 Thread Peter Maloney
I guess this log is useful too. ;) $ cat ./test-suite.log GNU Guix 0.2: ./test-suite.log # TOTAL: 18 # PASS: 17 # SKIP: 0 # XFAIL: 0 # FAIL: 1 # XPASS: 0 # ERROR: 0 .. contents:: :depth: 2 FAIL: tests/utils ==

Re: FTBFS on GNU/Hurd

2013-07-05 Thread Ludovic Courtès
"BlueT - Matthew Lien - 練喆明" skribis: > On 2013年07月05日 17:55, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Currently the distro within Guix is only available for GNU/Linux, i686 >> and x86_64. So the error we see here is just a graceless way of saying >> “not ported yet”. I’ll change ‘configure’ to just error out

Re: FTBFS on GNU/Hurd

2013-07-05 Thread BlueT - Matthew Lien - 練喆明
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ah, okay. On 2013年07月05日 17:55, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Currently the distro within Guix is only available for GNU/Linux, i686 > and x86_64. So the error we see here is just a graceless way of saying > “not ported yet”. I’ll change ‘configure’ to j

Re: FTBFS on GNU/Hurd

2013-07-05 Thread Ludovic Courtès
OK, now for the real issue: > configure:6577: checking for the Guix system type > configure:6579: result: i686- and: > ERROR: In procedure scm-error: > ERROR: bootstrap binary not found "tar" "i686-" Currently the distro within Guix is only available for GNU/Linux, i686 and x86_64. So the erro

Re: FTBFS on GNU/Hurd

2013-07-05 Thread BlueT - Matthew Lien - 練喆明
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Haha yes I totally agree with you! I used to use Thunderbird on my laptop and mutt on remote server, with MTA on my personal VPS (bluet.org) bought from an unmanaged VPS provider (rapidxen.net/systeminplace) founded by a DD (Debian Developer). But la