Building GUIX

[Pjotr Prins]

I am not having much luck installing GUIX because of the long list of
version specific dependencies. The best route, so far, is installing
Nix 1.7 first and then try to bootstrap using those tools. Now I have

   nix-env --version
   nix-env (Nix) 1.7
   address@hidden guix]$ ls /nix/store/*guile*
   /nix/store/gkm53ax9j38r9pvl5jq3dsj2if79rdml-guile-2.0.9.tar.xz.drv
   /nix/store/j9ifci462jzph8pgiwbq61gq1x3plb6r-guile-2.0.9.drv

   /nix/store/1asl58lg6z3pg6icard31lnb24j0ndr0-guile-2.0.9:
   bin  include  lib  nix-support  share

./bootstrap gives

  autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
  autoreconf: running: autopoint --force
  autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4
  autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
  autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool
  autoreconf: running: 
/nix/store/k2k666rwfr7s8daf03x3fymzni9fdp8q-autoconf-2.69/bin/autoconf --force
  autoreconf: running: 
/nix/store/k2k666rwfr7s8daf03x3fymzni9fdp8q-autoconf-2.69/bin/autoheader --force
  autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --force-missing
  configure.ac:18: warning: The 'AM_PROG_MKDIR_P' macro is deprecated, and its 
use is discouraged.
  configure.ac:18: You should use the Autoconf-provided 'AC_PROG_MKDIR_P' macro 
instead,
  configure.ac:18: and use '$(MKDIR_P)' instead of '$(mkdir_p)'in your 
Makefile.am files.
  autoreconf: Leaving directory `.'

which is probably harmless and now ./configure does not find guile, even though

  which guile
    ~/.nix-profile/bin/guile

  ls /nix/store/*guile*
  /nix/store/gkm53ax9j38r9pvl5jq3dsj2if79rdml-guile-2.0.9.tar.xz.drv
  /nix/store/j9ifci462jzph8pgiwbq61gq1x3plb6r-guile-2.0.9.drv

  /nix/store/1asl58lg6z3pg6icard31lnb24j0ndr0-guile-2.0.9:
  bin  include  lib  nix-support  share

  checking for the Guix system type... x86_64-linux
  checking for the store directory... /gnu/store
  ./configure: line 6775: syntax error near unexpected token `GUILE,'
  ./configure: line 6775: `PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GUILE, guile-2.0 >= 2.0.5)'

Any switch that I can pass in to make this work?

I think it would be an idea to add a Nix package for guix for people like me. 

Pj.