January 30, 2018 3:16 PM, ludo@gnu.org wrote: > This has to do with bad $http_proxy handling in old Guile versions But I am using the packaged Guile from Debian buster, which is recent: $ guile --version guile (GNU Guile) 2.2.2 Packaged by Debian (2.2.2-deb+2-1) […] > […] that download step no longer exists in the ‘core-updates’ > branch that’s to be merged in the coming days. Thank you for the information. Perhaps I should try again after that branch is merged. > Thanks anyway, I consider the case closed on our side. Will you update the test so it works when ‘language/tree-il/spec.scm’ is a symlink? Since Stow is a GNU package, maybe Guix should either be compatible with it or warn in the documentation about the incompatibility. Regards