Re: --with-store-dir and/or --localstatedir seem to be ignored

[Ludovic Courtès]

Alex Vorobiev <address@hidden> skribis:

> I have built guix-0.8.2 and specified both --with-store-dir and --
> localstatedir (both directories are world-writable) but when I started 
> guix-daemon (as myself) and tried to install a package I got:
>
> $ guix package -i mc
> guix package: error: build failed: creating directory `/gnu': Permission 
> denied

‘guix-daemon’ and ‘guix’ should definitely honor whatever was
--with-store-dir was given.  Perhaps there were stale compiled files?

Could you try:

  ./configure --with-store-dir=/what/you/want && \
     make clean && make && make install

?

HTH,
Ludo’.