bug#29082: Guix-daemon has undefined reference to boost

[Andreas Enge]

Hello,

I am currently trying to compile the most recent guix on debian on a novena
arm board. First, I updated via git from release 0.12 to 0.13, then I used
this to do a "guix pull" yesterday:
$ guix --version
guix (GNU Guix) 20171030.19

Then I updated all the packages in my profile using this guix version.

When configuring and making guix from git checkout 
56295c51609c07e287ae1c23adc2536bb3c8c3c0,
linking the guix daemon leads to the following error:

make[2]: Entering directory '/home/andreas/guix'
  CXXLD    guix-daemon
nix/nix-daemon/guix_daemon-nix-daemon.o: In function 
`nix::FormatOrString::FormatOrString(boost::basic_format const&)':
/home/andreas/guix/./nix/libutil/types.hh:36: undefined reference to 
`boost::basic_format::str[abi:cxx11]() const'
/home/andreas/guix/./nix/libutil/types.hh:36: undefined reference to 
`boost::basic_format::str[abi:cxx11]() const'
nix/nix-daemon/guix_daemon-nix-daemon.o: In function `acceptConnection':
/home/andreas/guix/nix/nix-daemon/nix-daemon.cc:888: undefined reference to 
`boost::basic_format::basic_format(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, 
std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&)'
nix/nix-daemon/guix_daemon-nix-daemon.o: In function 
`nix::FormatOrString::FormatOrString(boost::basic_format const&)':
/home/andreas/guix/./nix/libutil/types.hh:36: undefined reference to 
`boost::basic_format::str[abi:cxx11]() const'
/home/andreas/guix/./nix/libutil/types.hh:36: undefined reference to 
`boost::basic_format::str[abi:cxx11]() const'
/home/andreas/guix/./nix/libutil/types.hh:36: undefined reference to 
`boost::basic_format::str[abi:cxx11]() const'
/home/andreas/guix/./nix/libutil/types.hh:36: undefined reference to 
`boost::basic_format::str[abi:cxx11]() const'
/home/andreas/guix/./nix/libutil/types.hh:36: undefined reference to 
`boost::basic_format::str[abi:cxx11]() const'
nix/nix-daemon/guix_daemon-guix-daemon.o:/home/andreas/guix/./nix/libutil/types.hh:36:
 more undefined references to `boost::basic_format::str[abi:cxx11]() const' 
follow
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

The same happens when I run "make" inside "guix environment guix"
(however, I did not reconfigure, since I would then have to wait
another hour or two to reach this point).

What is surprising is that "guix pull" succeeded, apparently with the
same code.

Andreas