Re: Small change request to the manual page "Building from Git"

[Maxime Devos]

On 06-10-2022 15:35, Mehmet Tekman wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'd like to request some small changes be made on this page:
>  > https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Building-from-Git.html 
> <https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Building-from-Git.html>
>
> 1. Authenticating on a foreign distro
>
> When at the "make authenticate" stage of the build process on a foreign 
> distro, this fails because it cannot find guix.
> I think it's because the `guix environment guix --pure' command doesn't 
> include it, or obscures its path.
>
> As a workaround, I ran `PATH=/usr/local/bin/:$PATH make authenticate'

"guix environment guix" only includes the dependencies of guix, not Guix 
itself.  Try "guix environment guix --pure guix" or "guix shell guix -D 
guix" instead.

"guix environment guix --pure" does indeed 'obscure its path' -- that's 
what --pure is for, if you don't want that, don't include --pure.

Both of these are independent of whether you are on a foreign distro or 
Guix System.

> 2. Easy fix for failing `make check' tests
>
> I had a few failing tests on my foreign distro relating to setting locales.
> Digging around led me to this reddit thread for the solution:
> > https://old.reddit.com/r/GUIX/comments/jpq1uw/bashminimal507binbash_warning_setlocale_lc_all/
>
> Here they suggest running `sudo guix install glibc-locales` instead of as a 
> user.
> Maybe this should be mentioned, since I'm not the only one coming to GUIX from 
> another distro.

Despite the name on Reddit, the name is Guix, not GUIX.

Also, assuming you have installed the Guix daemon with your foreign 
distro's package manager, this is a bug in the foreign distro's 
packaging, see 
<https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1012536> in case of 
Debian.  You could ask your distro to do a similar fix.

Greetings,
Maxime.

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