Re: Errors encountered in building guix from source.

[Fis Trivial]

On 01/21/2018 04:45 AM, Pjotr Prins wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 08:16:04PM +0000, Fis Trivial wrote:
>> I am currently running guix on top of Fedora 26. This is a mix of several
>> problems, and possibly contains bugs in guix, I am not sure if I have done
>> anything wrong. So I will try to describe them in order. If you believe I
>> should make separate threads or fill a bug report, just tell me to.
>>
>>
>> I tried to build guix from git repo according to this menu:
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Building-from-Git
>>
>> * Do as the menu said
>> So I ran the following command in sequence:
>> $ guix environment guix --ad-hoc help2man git strace
>> $ ./bootstrap
>> $ ./configure --localstatedir=/var
> 
> This looks inadequate to me. Try my
> 
> https://gitlab.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/blob/master/INSTALL.org
> 
> See building guix from guix - the bullet proof way. It builds Guix
> inside Guix tooling - no leakage.
> 
> Pj.
> 
Running `make` didn't succeed, I should fill a bug report now.
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Backtrace:
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
    142:2 19 (dynamic-wind _ _ #<procedure 23b9940 at ice-9/eval.scm?>)
    142:2 18 (dynamic-wind _ _ #<procedure 23b95c0 at ice-9/eval.scm?>)
In ice-9/eval.scm:
    619:8 17 (_ #(#(#<directory (guix build compile) 21ad8c0> #<?> ?)))
    619:8 16 (_ #(#(#(#(#(#(#(#<directory (guix b?> ?)) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?))
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
    152:2 15 (with-fluid* _ _ _)
  2792:17 14 (resolve-interface (guix scripts pack) #:select _ #:hide ?)
  2718:10 13 (_ (guix scripts pack) _ _ #:ensure _)
  2986:16 12 (try-module-autoload _ _)
   2316:4 11 (save-module-excursion #<procedure 5f2edb0 at ice-9/boo?>)
  3006:22 10 (_)
In unknown file:
           9 (primitive-load-path "guix/scripts/pack" #<procedure 5e?>)
In ice-9/eval.scm:
   626:19  8 (_ #<directory (guix scripts pack) 683f500>)
   173:39  7 (_ #<directory (guix scripts pack) 683f500>)
   202:51  6 (_ #<directory (guix scripts pack) 683f500>)
   202:35  5 (_ #<directory (guix scripts pack) 683f500>)
    155:9  4 (_ #<directory (guix scripts pack) 683f500>)
   202:35  3 (_ #<directory (guix scripts pack) 683f500>)
    159:9  2 (_ #<directory (guix scripts pack) 683f500>)
   223:20  1 (proc #<directory (guix scripts pack) 683f500>)
In unknown file:
           0 (%resolve-variable (7 . gzip) #<directory (guix scripts?>)

ERROR: In procedure %resolve-variable:
ERROR: gzip: unbound variable

Some deprecated features have been used.  Set the environment
variable GUILE_WARN_DEPRECATED to "detailed" and rerun the
program to get more information.  Set it to "no" to suppress
this message.
make[2]: *** [Makefile:5361: make-go] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/fis/Workspace/guix'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:4490: all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/fis/Workspace/guix'
make: *** [Makefile:3059: all] Error 2
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