From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Fri May 26 10:56:33 2017 Received: (at 27080) by debbugs.gnu.org; 26 May 2017 14:56:34 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39401 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dEGfJ-0006Rw-M4 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 26 May 2017 10:56:33 -0400 Received: from sender-of-o51.zoho.com ([135.84.80.216]:21081) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dEGfI-0006Rn-2W for 27080@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 26 May 2017 10:56:32 -0400 Received: from localhost (141.80.245.77 [141.80.245.77]) by mx.zohomail.com with SMTPS id 1495810587373493.9840777194461; Fri, 26 May 2017 07:56:27 -0700 (PDT) References: <87h907g9go.fsf@elephly.net> <920162d3-7548-5f22-21c3-893fd427e353@fastmail.net> User-agent: mu4e 0.9.18; emacs 25.2.1 From: Ricardo Wurmus To: Konrad Hinsen Subject: Re: bug#27080: =?utf-8?Q?=C2=A8make?= install" fails because of missing gawk In-reply-to: <920162d3-7548-5f22-21c3-893fd427e353@fastmail.net> X-URL: https://elephly.net X-PGP-Key: https://elephly.net/rekado.pubkey X-PGP-Fingerprint: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 16:56:25 +0200 Message-ID: <8737brfyzq.fsf@elephly.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-ZohoMailClient: External X-Spam-Score: -1.8 (-) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 27080 Cc: 27080@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -1.8 (-) Konrad Hinsen writes: > Hi Ricardo, > > Thanks for your reply! > >> You did not run “./configure --localstatedir=/var”. > > I did, in an earlier cycle. More precisely, I did > > ./configure --prefix=/opt/guix --localstatedir=/var > > in order to prevent Guix from overwriting some of Ubuntu's system files. Guix will not overwrite any system files. It only writes to /gnu, /var/guix, and /etc/guix. > In order to start from a clean slate, I now did > > guix environment guix > make distclean > ./bootstrap > ./configure --prefix=/opt/guix --localstatedir=/var > make check > sudo make install […] > Conclusion: something is going wrong in configure. No, the configure script is probably okay. Maybe something’s up with your environment. Have you tried “guix environment --pure guix”? -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net