Architecture: x86_64 RAM: 4GB Filesystem: EXT4 Guile version: 2.0.11 Guile-Git (Guile module) was manually compiled and installed by me from https://gitlab.com/guile-git/guile-git Operating system: Slackware 14.2 `uname -a` output: Linux slack 4.4.88 #2 SMP Thu Sep 14 14:21:06 CDT 2017 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU M 330 @ 2.13GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux Compilation failure when running `make` (after running `./bootstrap` and `./configure`) in latest git master and in latest source release tarball: 'In procedure memoize-variable-access!: gzip: unbound variable' Full output (error is at line 172): http://paste.debian.net/1001510 My IRC username on freenode is pkill9, I am often in the #guix room on freenode. IRC chatlog for reference: 2017-12-19 16:39:05 pkill9 I'm getting an error while compiling Guix, It says 'In procedure memoize-variable-access!: gzip: unbound variable'. Full output here: https://pastebin.com/wiNSZvXT 2017-12-19 16:39:15 pkill9 anyone know what this means? 2017-12-19 16:40:15 civodul pkill9: this was reported a couple of times before and i think it's been fixed (?) 2017-12-19 16:40:26 pkill9 oh interesting 2017-12-19 16:40:38 civodul can you paste to another site BTW, like paste.debian.net, which allows Tor users to access it 2017-12-19 16:40:42 pkill9 ok 2017-12-19 16:42:37 pkill9 http://paste.debian.net/1001510/ 2017-12-19 16:43:09 pkill9 I downloaded the source from the Guix downlaod page 2017-12-19 16:46:24 pkill9 civodul: has the fix been added to the source downloadable from the download page? 2017-12-19 16:46:51 pkill9 as in on this page https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/download/ 2017-12-19 16:47:03 pkill9 under 'GNU Guix 0.14.0 Source' 2017-12-19 16:47:09 pkill9 in the tarball 2017-12-19 16:47:28 pkill9 or is it very new and not yet been added to that? 2017-12-19 16:51:18 bavier pkill9: iirc it was a more recent fix 2017-12-19 17:02:20 civodul yes, it's in master i think 2017-12-19 17:02:47 civodul though i still can't remember what that was, which is kinda annoying 2017-12-19 18:57:21 lfam pkill9: From commit 9a56cf2b5b4970843c215091ea9823a67e077310, the error is not reproduced. 2017-12-19 19:08:54 pkill9 hmm i tried compiling with that commit (downloaded the tar.gz from https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=9a56cf2b5b4970843c215091ea9823a67e077310) and i still get that error 2017-12-19 19:14:24 lfam pkill9: What is `guix --version`? 2017-12-19 19:14:51 pkill9 i don't have it installed, that's why i'm compiling it 2017-12-19 19:15:19 lfam How are you providing the dependencies? 2017-12-19 19:15:39 pkill9 oh, slackware 2017-12-19 19:16:03 lfam Okay, and what is the CPU architecture, how much RAM is there, what filesystem are you compiling on, any other details that might be relevant? 2017-12-19 19:16:11 lfam Also the kernel version 2017-12-19 19:17:18 pkill9 x86_64, about 4GB ram, EXT4 filesystem, kernel 4.4.88 2017-12-19 19:18:28 lfam pkill9: Okay, that all sounds good. What version of Guile are you using? 2017-12-19 19:18:42 pkill9 2.0.11 2017-12-19 19:20:05 lfam Okay, sounds like this should all work. If you don't get any other answer here, please compile all this information into a bug report and send it to , first searching for previous reports of this issue