Re: Installing manually built software in Guix

[Ludovic Courtès]

Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis:

> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>>> As a Guile developer, I'm in the habit of building Guile from git, and
>>> occasionally installing that version with --prefix=/usr.
>>>
>>> As a Guix enthusiast, I've recently been experimenting with building
>>> Guile from git, with my environment variables set to attempt to use only
>>> things from Guix:
>>
>> I’ve been doing something similar.
>>
>>> I just tried "make install", as root, with these same environment
>>> variable settings (but with HOME=/home/mhw).  It failed in the middle.
>>> Here's the tail of the log:
>>>
>>> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/mhw/guile/guile-readline'
>>> make  install-am
>>> make[3]: Entering directory `/home/mhw/guile/guile-readline'
>>> make[4]: Entering directory `/home/mhw/guile/guile-readline'
>>>  /home/mhw/.guix-profile/bin/mkdir -p '/usr/lib'
>>>  /bin/bash ../libtool   --mode=install /home/mhw/.guix-profile/bin/install 
>>> -c   libguilereadline-v-18.la '/usr/lib'
>>> libtool: install: warning: relinking `libguilereadline-v-18.la'
>>> libtool: install: (cd /home/mhw/guile/guile-readline; /bin/bash
>>> /home/mhw/guile/libtool --silent --tag CC --mode=relink gcc -Wall
>>> -Wmissing-prototypes -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wpointer-arith
>>> -Wswitch-enum -fno-strict-aliasing
>>> -I/nix/store/a9j9bl7m73rhlal9z83z3wbl9m17di4i-libgc-7.4.0/include -g
>>> -O2 -version-info 18:0:0 -export-dynamic -no-undefined -o
>>> libguilereadline-v-18.la -rpath /usr/lib readline.lo -lreadline
>>> -lncurses ../libguile/libguile-2.0.la ../lib/libgnu.la -lcrypt -lm )
>>> libtool: relink: warning: `/home/mhw/.guix-profile/lib/libunistring.la' 
>>> seems to be moved
>>> libtool: relink: warning: `/home/mhw/.guix-profile/lib/libgmp.la' seems to 
>>> be moved
>>> libtool: relink: warning: `/home/mhw/.guix-profile/lib/libltdl.la' seems to 
>>> be moved
>>> /usr/lib/libgc.so: could not read symbols: File in wrong format
>>> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>>
>> Here it’s trying to use the “wrong” libgc, which is itself possibly
>> linked with a different libc.
>>
>> Can you try installing libgc from Guix, and make sure it’s the one
>> that’s picked up when building Guile?
>
> I already had libgc from Guix, and indeed it was the one picked up by
> Guile.  The problem seems to be limited to guile-readline.
>
> I guess the problem might be related to an "-rpath /usr/lib" that ends
> up in 'relink_command' in guile-readline/libguilereadline-v-18.la:

It may be that if you’re installing to /usr/lib, then it’ll also want to
pick things up from there (that only happens on relink though, that is,
upon “make install.”)

[...]

> Also possibly relevant: I don't have LD_LIBRARY_PATH set.  Should I?

No.

Ludo’.