Re: building guix from guix

[Ludovic Courtès]

John Darrington <address@hidden> skribis:

> I have been trying to follow the section in README entitled 
>
> * Installing Guix from Guix
>
> and have got as far as :
>   - re-run the configure script passing it the option
>     `--with-libgcrypt-prefix=$HOME/.guix-profile/
>
> This results in a  error: 
> /bin/sh: relocation error: /home/john/.guix-profile/lib/libc.so.6: symbol 
> _dl_find_dso_for_object, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file 
> ld-linux.so.2 with link time reference
>
> What does this mean and how can I resolve it?

What command produces that error?

> Question: the previous step says to set the variable "LIBRARY_PATH" - I 
> presume this should say LD_LIBRARY_PATH - 
> (I set both anyway).

No, it’s literally LIBRARY_PATH.

Setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH may have caused non-Guix-provided programs to
link against Guix’s libc, possibly leading to the error above.

Ludo’.