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bug#26366: [PATCH] doc: Specify that Guix should be built from within a
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Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#26366: [PATCH] doc: Specify that Guix should be built from within a container. |
Date: |
Thu, 13 Apr 2017 23:23:06 +0200 |
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Hello!
Clément Lassieur <address@hidden> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Clément Lassieur <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>>> * doc/contributing.texi: add '--container' and '--network' options to the
>>> 'guix environment guix' command.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> +course, by using Guix! The following command starts a new shell within
>>> +an isolated container where all the dependencies and appropriate
>>> +environment variables are set up to hack on Guix:
>>>
>>> @example
>>> -guix environment guix
>>> +guix environment --container --network guix
>>> @end example
>>
>> What’s the rationale? Was this to address the warnings in your first
>> message?
>
> This was both to address the warnings in my first message, and my build
> error. I apologize if my message is (still) not clear, but it is
> difficult to reproduce those bugs, since they are state-dependent.
Yeah, I see.
>> It’s possible and a good way to silence the warnings you were seeing,
>> but it should work fine without it too.
>
> I don't understand why it should work fine. Guix (or Guile-SSH, for
> example) both depend on Guile 2.0 (which is an input). But let's say
> that on my system, Guile 2.2 is installed instead. I want to build Guix
> (or Guile-SSH). I usually do 'guix environment guix' (or 'guix
> environment guile-ssh'). Then, in my opinion, 'guile --version' should
> output 2.0, but it outputs 2.2. Is it supposed to build with the wrong
> Guile? (If I do 'guix environment -C guix', then 'guile --version'
> outputs 2.0.)
‘guix environment’ definitely prepends things to PATH et al.
Could it be that you have variable definitions in the wrong Bash init
files as noted in
<https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Invoking-guix-environment.html#FOOT14>?
HTH!
Ludo’.
bug#26366: Building Guix from within a container, Clément Lassieur, 2017/04/05
bug#26366: Building Guix from within a container, Ludovic Courtès, 2017/04/08