bug#19321: evince fails to build, attempts to evaluate: ()

2014-12-08 Thread Mark H Weaver
evince fails to build. This is the entire build output: --8<---cut here---start->8--- ice-9/boot-9.scm:700:29: In procedure map: ice-9/boot-9.scm:700:29: Syntax error: unknown location: unexpected syntax in form () --8<---cut here---end-

bug#19313: missing newline after "transferred"

2014-12-08 Thread rekado
Hi guix, When installing a package (e.g. `guix package -i icecat`) with binary substitutions enabled, the output lines are not always separated by newline characters. Here's a snippet of the output: ---8< downloading `/gnu/store/zpin1ikrh56pb0jv1x9ncsbl10rfmd97-li

bug#19316: group ownership of /gnu/store/

2014-12-08 Thread rekado
Hi, the manual describes how to create build users for use with guix-daemon, but it does not mention that the /gnu/store/ directory must be group-owned by the guix-builder group in order to actually use these build accounts. Currently, an error message after a failed build prompts the user to cha

bug#19315: per-user profile directory not created/mentioned

2014-12-08 Thread rekado
Hi guix, the manual does not mention that a per-user profile directory owned by the user account has to be created after installation of guix. On a fresh installation of the package manager the missing profile directory is mentioned only after attempting to run a guix command. Cheers, rekado

bug#19317: "source file ...config.scm newer than compiled"

2014-12-08 Thread rekado
Hi guix, whenever I run any guix command I see this somewhat annoying notice: [rekado@mango ~]$ guix pull ;;; note: source file /usr/local/share/guile/site/2.0/guix/config.scm ;;; newer than compiled /usr/local/share/guile/site/2.0/guix/config.go ... I have not modified config.scm; this is

bug#19318: %guix-version is incorrect in the presence of 'guix pull'

2014-12-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Running ‘guix pull’ doesn’t change (@ (guix config) %guix-version), which gives a wrong impression about the version being (‘guix --version’ will keep showing the same old version number because (guix config) is never overridden.) The solution may be to add a (guix version) module, that will itsel

bug#18933: ATLAS fails to build on mips

2014-12-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
tag 18933 wontfix close 18933 thanks The attempt to get ATLAS on MIPS failed; commit 01480b9e disables it on MIPS. See for the discussion. Ludo’.