bug#39294: Can't run ./configure

2020-01-29 Thread zimoun
Hi Julien, On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 at 18:30, Julien Lepiller wrote: > We could fix the documentation to recommend using --pure when running > confiqure, but not afterwards, with a warning that some systems might ask you > to install software you already have, and you should ignore that. How does

bug#39294: Can't run ./configure

2020-01-29 Thread Julien Lepiller
Le 29 janvier 2020 11:09:05 GMT-05:00, zimoun a écrit : >On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 at 16:33, Damien Cassou wrote: > >> my issue is solved for me so you can close the bug. But the next >Fedora >> user will struggle similarly. You decide. > >I am not sure that if one user struggles similarly then they s

bug#39294: Can't run ./configure

2020-01-29 Thread zimoun
On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 at 16:33, Damien Cassou wrote: > my issue is solved for me so you can close the bug. But the next Fedora > user will struggle similarly. You decide. I am not sure that if one user struggles similarly then they searches first in the bug tracker[*]. :-) And I am not convinced t

bug#39294: Can't run ./configure

2020-01-29 Thread Damien Cassou
zimoun writes: > Is your issue solved now? > Is it ok for closing this bug? my issue is solved for me so you can close the bug. But the next Fedora user will struggle similarly. You decide. -- Damien Cassou "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without losing enthusiasm." -

bug#39294: Can't run ./configure

2020-01-29 Thread zimoun
Hi Damien, Is your issue solved now? Is it ok for closing this bug? All the best, simon

bug#39294: Can't run ./configure

2020-01-29 Thread Damien Cassou
zimoun writes: >> > $ guix environment guix --pure > > [...] > >> This did the trick, thank you. I got a lot of error messages though: > > You mean using the option '--pure', right? yes > Which shell do you use ? Bash or a more exotic one? sometimes bash in `M-x ansi-term`, sometimes `M-x es

bug#39294: Can't run ./configure

2020-01-29 Thread Damien Cassou
Julien Lepiller writes: > This message is from fedora, not guix. Apparently it tries to run > gpg-agent, but it can't because you're in a pure environment (the > $PATH does not contain /usr/bin or /bin). However, the package is > already installed, so dnf can't do anything :) > > At this question,

bug#39294: Can't run ./configure

2020-01-28 Thread Julien Lepiller
Le 28 janvier 2020 03:31:39 GMT-05:00, Efraim Flashner a écrit : >On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 09:17:44AM +0100, Damien Cassou wrote: >> Julien Lepiller writes: >> > $ guix environment guix --pure >> > ^C if your terminal asks you to install whatever >> > [env]$ ./bootstrap >> > [env]$ ./configure --

bug#39294: Can't run ./configure

2020-01-28 Thread zimoun
Hi Damien, On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 at 09:38, Damien Cassou wrote: > zimoun writes: > > Which Guix version do you use (command "guix describe")? > > $ guix describe > guile: warning: failed to install locale > Generation 1Jan 27 2020 21:46:02(current) > guix 4fc4e5f > repository URL: h

bug#39294: Can't run ./configure

2020-01-28 Thread zimoun
Hi Damien, On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 at 09:18, Damien Cassou wrote: > Julien Lepiller writes: > > $ guix environment guix --pure [...] > This did the trick, thank you. I got a lot of error messages though: You mean using the option '--pure', right? Which shell do you use ? Bash or a more exotic o

bug#39294: Can't run ./configure

2020-01-28 Thread Damien Cassou
zimoun writes: > Which Guix version do you use (command "guix describe")? $ guix describe guile: warning: failed to install locale Generation 1Jan 27 2020 21:46:02(current) guix 4fc4e5f repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git branch: master commit: 4fc4e5fd

bug#39294: Can't run ./configure

2020-01-28 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 09:17:44AM +0100, Damien Cassou wrote: > Julien Lepiller writes: > > $ guix environment guix --pure > > ^C if your terminal asks you to install whatever > > [env]$ ./bootstrap > > [env]$ ./configure --localstatedir=/var # this should now work > > [env]$ exit # to exit the p

bug#39294: Can't run ./configure

2020-01-28 Thread Damien Cassou
Julien Lepiller writes: > $ guix environment guix --pure > ^C if your terminal asks you to install whatever > [env]$ ./bootstrap > [env]$ ./configure --localstatedir=/var # this should now work > [env]$ exit # to exit the pure environment > $ guix environment guix # no need for pure anymore, so no

bug#39294: Can't run ./configure

2020-01-28 Thread Damien Cassou
Gábor Boskovits writes: > The issue seems here, is that the current guix is too old. > guix environment guix should be enough if the current guix and the > checked out one shares the dependencies. > > Could you try this again after 'guix pull'? this doesn't help. Maybe the installed guix should

bug#39294: Can't run ./configure

2020-01-27 Thread zimoun
Hi Damien, Thank you for reporting the issue. Which Guix version do you use (command "guix describe")? Against which Git commit? Because I am not able to reproduce. :-( I am using a fresh checkout with the Git commit 5e61de242156cdb3314abac168d9682ca7a4c28f. And I have tried the old Guix versio

bug#39294: Can't run ./configure

2020-01-26 Thread Julien Lepiller
Le 26 janvier 2020 11:57:45 GMT-05:00, Damien Cassou a écrit : >Hi, > >I'm on Fedora and just installed Guix by using guix-install.sh. I also >checked out Guix git repository. When inside this repository, I face >the >following issue: > >$ guix environment guix >... > >guix$ ./boo

bug#39294: Can't run ./configure

2020-01-26 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello Damien, Damien Cassou ezt írta (időpont: 2020. jan. 26., V, 17:58): > > Hi, > > I'm on Fedora and just installed Guix by using guix-install.sh. I also > checked out Guix git repository. When inside this repository, I face the > following issue: > > $ guix environment guix > ... > >

bug#39294: Can't run ./configure

2020-01-26 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
Damien, Damien Cassou 写道: guix$ ./configure ... checking if (gnutls) is available... yes checking if (git) is available... no configure: error: Guile-Git is missing; please install it. I tried passing "--ad-hoc guile-git git" as parameter to "guix environment", but this does

bug#39294: Can't run ./configure

2020-01-26 Thread Damien Cassou
Hi, I'm on Fedora and just installed Guix by using guix-install.sh. I also checked out Guix git repository. When inside this repository, I face the following issue: $ guix environment guix ... guix$ ./bootstrap ... guix$ ./configure ... checking if (gnutls) i