Re: guix can't find (gnutls)

[Federico Beffa]

On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 9:38 AM, Alex Vong <address@hidden> wrote:
> Federico Beffa <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> for some reason Guix can't find (gnutls) despite the module being
>> installed and usable in Guile:
>>
> Are you running guixsd or runnign guix on a foreign distro?

I'm on Debian testing.

> I personally run guix on debian and had the same problem. I solved the
> problem by building gnutls from source and installing it into
> /usr/local. The problem is debian's gnutls doesn't contain
> gnutls-guile.
>
> One might suggests to install guix's gnutls and build guix using it, but
> it doesnt't work for me, so I resort to building from source.

I had a similar experience: I installed gnutls manually in /usr/local
and successfully compiled Guix.

However, for various reasons, I then wanted to recompile Guix with
Guix (and remove the manually installed gnutls and Debian Guile) and
that's where I was struggling to make things work. I fixed things as
in my reply to Alex Kost.

Thanks for your reply.
Fede