Hi Julien, On +2020-05-19 08:03:37 -0400, Julien Lepiller wrote: > Le 18 mai 2020 23:07:42 GMT-04:00, Bengt Richter <b...@bokr.com> a écrit : > >Hi, > > > >[~/wb/guix110git/guix]$ ./configure --prefix=$(realpath ./mybuild) > >checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c > >checking whether build environment is sane... yes > >... > >... > >checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes > >configure: checking for guile 3.0 > >configure: checking for guile 2.2 > >configure: found guile 2.2 > >checking for guile-2.2... /usr/bin/guile-2.2 > >checking for Guile version >= 2.2... 2.2.4 > >checking for guild-2.2... /usr/bin/guild-2.2 > >checking for guile-config-2.2... /usr/bin/guile-config-2.2 > >checking for GUILE... yes > >checking if (gnutls) is available... no > >configure: error: The Guile bindings of GnuTLS are missing; please > >install them. > >--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > > >Well, it was looking for guile 3.0 and my foreign distro only has 2.2.4 > >--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > >guile (GNU Guile) 2.2.4 > >Packaged by Debian (2.2.4-deb+1-2) > >Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > >--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > >which it seemed ok with, but I don't seem to be able get my distro's > >GnuTLS > >hooked up with this installation procedure, and suspect a GnuTLS/Guile > >version > >mismatch problem or such, but then I ran out of enthusiasm :) > > As you can see, configure looks for guile 3.0, fails and falls back to guile > 2.2, which it finds as /usr/bin/guile-2.2. > > Gnutls provides guile bindings, but they are not necessarily built by your > distribution. From my experiments with debian/hurd, the bindings were not > present, so probably the same with debian/linux? You'll probably have to > checkout gnutls and build the bindings. > > The configure script only checks that the guile it found (your 2.2) can load > the (gnutls) module, so there cannot be a version mismatch, unless debian > built the gnutls module with guile 3.0. Check with your distribution what > files are installed with the gnutls package. There should be some in > /usr/lib/guile/. > > You'll need to look at the dependencies, some of them are probably not > provided by debian yet. I remember some discussions about creating a debian > package of guix. If this was accepted, then the dependencies must be > available at least in unstable. You might want to check. >
Thanks for your tips! I also went on to read Pjotr Prins' extensive notes on installing [1]. Looks like he can say "Been there, done that" re most install travails, and IIUC he recommends against "Building from Git" as step 1, advising to use a binary install first, and then use guix tools to hack further in a full repo. BTW, he suggests a recursive clone, but I didn't see what that really does or entails. Not sure I want to download the entire history of all development branches of guix, if that's what it means :) (re that: it would be nice to see an approximate download size when advice to download appears in docs, for those who pay for GBs ;-) Perhaps 14.1 in the docs should be updated with a reference to [1] and to suggest (emphatically?) there in 14.1 (as it does elsewhere) that the easier path will be to do a binary install first? And also un-mix directions for the two kinds of install activities! Leading people into frustrating experiences can't be good PR for guix. Cui bono? Anyway, I think I'll give up on Building from Git for now, and go back to monkeying with guix-install.sh (making it incrementally restartable to avoid re-downloading etc. and seeing how far I can factor out root both in the script and the resulting guix daemonium) :) [1] https://gitlab.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/-/blob/master/INSTALL.org Thanks again. -- Regards, Bengt Richter