Re: Compiling guix 0.3 on a fedora 8 planetlab node

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Matthias Wachs <address@hidden> skribis:

> I totally understand if you don't want to apply the patch... just wanted
> to let you know how I fixed the issue. If you reject I just will apply
> it manually before compiling...

OK, we’ll take that route.

> In the end I made guix compile with the patch and it works when
> disabling chroot... (otherwise it complained about being unabled to
> fork) ... 

How did it complain exactly?  Is it running as ‘root’, as per
<http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Setting-Up-the-Daemon>?

The ability to run build processes in a chroot and under separate UIDs
is essential to achieve reproducibility.

> Thanks a lot for your effort any!
> I'll let you know about progess installing gnunet with guix!

Sure, let us know about any problems you may have.  Thank you!

Ludo’.