bug#24544: 2.1.4 tarball install fails on GuixSD

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andy Wingo <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Sun 25 Sep 2016 21:22, Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>     ld-wrapper: error: attempt to use impure library 
>> "/home/janneke/guile-2.1.4/lib/libguile-2.2.so"
>>     collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>>     libtool:   error: error: relink 'guile-readline.la' with the above 
>> command before installing it
>
> This is because Guix is silly and thinks that even when you are
> installing to /rando/prefix/that/you/like that it's bad to link to
> thinks outside /gnu/store.
>
> The workaround is to export GUIX_LD_WRAPPER_ALLOW_IMPURITIES=yesplease.
> (Actually any value.)
>
> The real fix is to prevent ld-wrapper from carping for normal installs
> to non-store prefixen!

Do you mean we should change the default?  That is,
GUIX_LD_WRAPPER_ALLOW_IMPURITIES=yes by default, and gnu-build-system
would set it to “no”.

Ludo’.