Re: guix environment guix doesn't provide guix dependencies?

[John Darrington]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 09:18:30PM -0700, Chris Marusich wrote:
     Hi,
     
     The manual says ((guix) Building from Git):
     
     --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
        The easiest way to set up a development environment for Guix is, of
     course, by using Guix!  The following command starts a new shell where
     all the dependencies and appropriate environment variables are set up to
     hack on Guix:
     
          guix environment guix
     --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
     
     After running this command successfully, I get the following error while
     running ./bootstrap:
     
     --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
     + exec autoreconf -vfi
     ./bootstrap: line 5: exec: autoreconf: not found
     --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
     
     This makes me wonder: has something changed, and the manual is now
     incorrect?
     

I don't think so.   Running ./bootstrap is not part of the normal process for 
*building*
guix - only for bootstrapping.  But you are right - it is common to want to do 
that.
For this reason I often run:

 guix environment guix --ad-hoc automake autoconf texinfo help2man


But perhaps you are right - the manual might want to mention this.

J'



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