Re: Daemon update

[Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer]

Alex Vorobiev <address@hidden> writes:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:
>> bunch of C++11 lambdas here, a bit of ‘auto’ there.)  
>
> Does it mean it can't be installed on systems with older c++
> compilers?

FYI Guix can be "bootstrapped" very easily with the new binary tarballs
without needing to compile anything.

See the master branch's manual for some pitfalls that made it into the
0.8.2 release.  (Namely, extracting the binary tarball might change the
ownership and permissions of /, /root, and /var, if you don't pass
--skip-old-files to tar.)

After extracting the tarball there will be a /root/.guix-profile with
guix installed, and any user can call:

  /gnu/store/...-guix-.../bin/guix package -i guix

to create their ~/.guix-profile with guix installed.

After that, git checkouts of guix can be built via:

  guix environment guix --pure -E 'autoreconf -vif'
  guix environment guix --pure -E \
    "./configure --with-libgcrypt-prefix=$(guix build libgcrypt | head -1)"
  guix environment guix --pure -E make

and for later re-compilations only the last line is necessary, and
sometimes the first.  'make install' should probably be avoided.

Hope that helps,
Taylan