Konrad Hinsen <[email protected]> writes: > Hi Ricardo, > > Thanks for your reply! > >> You did not run “./configure --localstatedir=/var”. > > I did, in an earlier cycle. More precisely, I did > > ./configure --prefix=/opt/guix --localstatedir=/var > > in order to prevent Guix from overwriting some of Ubuntu's system files.
Guix will not overwrite any system files. It only writes to /gnu, /var/guix, and /etc/guix. > In order to start from a clean slate, I now did > > guix environment guix > make distclean > ./bootstrap > ./configure --prefix=/opt/guix --localstatedir=/var > make check > sudo make install […] > Conclusion: something is going wrong in configure. No, the configure script is probably okay. Maybe something’s up with your environment. Have you tried “guix environment --pure guix”? -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net
