Hi Guix, installing the gcj or the gfortran package, my profile's /bin directory gets a gcc link. If I use Guix as a package manager on top of another system that has a working installation of the GNU C compiler and my profile bin path has preference to all other items in PATH, then I end up with a disfunctional gcc binary.
gcj as well as gfortran come with a couple of binaries (gcc, gcc-ar, etc) that do not constitute a working C compiler. Trying to build an application with ./configure make sudo make install "configure" complains about gcc not being able to compile C code. Other distributions seem to remove common binaries like gcc, gcc-ar, etc from their gfortran packages and it seems that we should too in order to avoid conflicts. It seems that neither gfortran nor gcj actually need these binaries to function. Should we add another phase to the definitions of "custom-gcc" and "gcj" to remove these binaries? ~~ Ricardo
