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

[Eric Bavier]

On Tue, 27 Sep 2016 22:10:31 -0700
Chris Marusich <address@hidden> wrote:

> John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > 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'  
> 
> That makes sense.  I feel like it used to provide all the dependencies,
> including autoconf etc., but that was months ago, and I might be
> mis-remembering.  It works fine when I add the needed bootstrap
> dependencies with --ad-hoc.

You can also do 

  guix environment -e "(@ (gnu packages package-management) guix)"

which points to 'guix-devel' and includes everything needed to build
from a git clone.

`~Eric