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 The last configure command resulted in error, here is the last part from output: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- configure: checking for guile 2.2 configure: found guile 2.2 checking for guile-2.2... no checking for guile2.2... no checking for guile-2... no checking for guile2... /usr/bin/guile2 configure: error: found development files for Guile 2.2, but /usr/bin/guile2 has effective version 2.0 --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- It seems configure script tried to use the guile provided by Fedora. * Add --pure option to `guix environment` Then I tried again the added --pure option to `guix environment`: $ guix environment guix --ad-hoc help2man git strace --pure During the process, following questions were emitted by command-not-found facility provided by Fedora: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- Install package 'cargo' to provide command 'cargo'? [N/y] n Install package 'procps-ng' to provide command 'pidof'? [N/y] n Install package 'cargo' to provide command 'cargo'? [N/y] n Install package 'procps-ng' to provide command 'pidof'? [N/y] n --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Even if I answer 'y', those packages won't be successfully installed by Fedora since I already have them. Aside from this, The bootstrap and configure ran successfully. But `make check` failed, here is the last part of the output: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- LOAD guix/scripts/gc.scm LOAD guix/scripts/hash.scm LOAD guix/scripts/pack.scm Backtrace: In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 142:2 19 (dynamic-wind _ _ #<procedure 1ced4c0 at ice-9/eval.scm…>) 142:2 18 (dynamic-wind _ _ #<procedure 1ced060 at ice-9/eval.scm…>) In ice-9/eval.scm: 619:8 17 (_ #(#(#<directory (guix build compile) 16c28c0> #<…> …))) 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 9a615d0 at ice-9/boo…>) 3006:22 10 (_) In unknown file: 9 (primitive-load-path "guix/scripts/pack" #<procedure 1b…>) In ice-9/eval.scm: 626:19 8 (_ #<directory (guix scripts pack) 90b26e0>) 173:39 7 (_ #<directory (guix scripts pack) 90b26e0>) 202:51 6 (_ #<directory (guix scripts pack) 90b26e0>) 202:35 5 (_ #<directory (guix scripts pack) 90b26e0>) 155:9 4 (_ #<directory (guix scripts pack) 90b26e0>) 202:35 3 (_ #<directory (guix scripts pack) 90b26e0>) 159:9 2 (_ #<directory (guix scripts pack) 90b26e0>) 223:20 1 (proc #<directory (guix scripts pack) 90b26e0>) 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: check-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/fis/Workspace/guix' make: *** [Makefile:4955: check] Error 2 --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- If I ignore the failure and then try: $ sudo ./pre-inst-env guix-daemon --build-users-group=guixbuild I will be told that sudo command is not availabile. Adding sudo as a dependency in environment will not work, due to this error: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- sudo: /gnu/store/p1fgwswygbw0fgbnpajdhxb0ylmqa20i-profile/bin/sudo must be owned by uid 0 and have the setuid bit set --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- * Platform Fedora 26 x86_64 * Version The version of guix I'm running: guix (GNU Guix) d77f2bd81f20a312032d6a7357e4f6f52047bf9c The version of guix I'm trying to build: commit ede75282b86ee9cd3b9066c4ce7b00387878709b * Summary So, as a summary, I encountered the following errors: 1. configure failed if I don't add --pure option to `guix environment`. 2. If I add --pure option to `guix environment`: 1. Fedora will ask me whether should it install some packages. 2. `make check` failed 3. sudo is missing. Is there anything I did wrong? Or is it a bug in guix? If so, should I report them in one or multiple bug reports?