Re: ./configure fails when building Guix

[Julien Lepiller]

Le 14 mai 2019 11:52:40 GMT+02:00, HiPhish <address@hidden> a écrit :
>Hello everyone,
>
>I am trying to set up Guix for proper local development, but it fails
>during 
>the configuration step because the script cannot find the guild binary.
>Here is 
>what I did:
>
>- Check out the Guix repo
>- Switch to a local branch
>- run `guix environment guix` in order to set up all dependiencies
>- run `./bootstrap`
>- run `./configure`
>
>Here is the output of `./bootstrap`:
>
>guix$ ./bootstrap
>+ find po/doc -type f -name *.po
>+ sed -e s,guix-manual\.,,
>+ xargs -n 1 -I{} basename {} .po
>+ langs=zh_CN
>de
>ru
>es
>fr
>+ [ ! -e doc/guix.zh_CN.texi ]
>+ [ ! -e doc/guix.de.texi ]
>+ [ ! -e doc/guix.ru.texi ]
>+ [ ! -e doc/guix.es.texi ]
>+ [ ! -e doc/guix.fr.texi ]
>+ exec autoreconf -vfi
>autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
>autoreconf: running: autopoint --force
>autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4
>autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
>autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool
>autoreconf: running: /gnu/store/rfaqi3a9ls7adr4y7bgwvln3iaf69qwj-
>autoconf-2.69/bin/autoconf --force
>autoreconf: running: /gnu/store/rfaqi3a9ls7adr4y7bgwvln3iaf69qwj-
>autoconf-2.69/bin/autoheader --force
>autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --force-missing
>configure.ac:23: warning: The 'AM_PROG_MKDIR_P' macro is deprecated,
>and its 
>use is discouraged.
>configure.ac:23: You should use the Autoconf-provided 'AC_PROG_MKDIR_P'
>macro 
>instead,
>configure.ac:23: and use '$(MKDIR_P)' instead of '$(mkdir_p)'in your
>Makefile.am 
>files.
>Makefile.am:601: warning: AM_GNU_GETTEXT used but 'po' not in SUBDIRS
>autoreconf: Leaving directory `.'
>
>And here is the output of `./configure`:
>
>guix$ ./configure
>checking for a BSD-compatible install... /gnu/store/
>020aw068yfsq84h6scmnvfrjacmznsgz-profile/bin/install -c
>checking whether build environment is sane... yes
>checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /gnu/store/
>020aw068yfsq84h6scmnvfrjacmznsgz-profile/bin/mkdir -p
>checking for gawk... gawk
>checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
>checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
>checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached) yes
>checking whether make supports the include directive... yes (GNU style)
>checking for gcc... gcc
>checking whether the C compiler works... yes
>checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
>checking for suffix of executables...
>checking whether we are cross compiling... no
>checking for suffix of object files... o
>checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
>checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
>checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
>checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... yes
>checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
>checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
>checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /gnu/store/
>020aw068yfsq84h6scmnvfrjacmznsgz-profile/bin/grep
>checking for egrep...
>/gnu/store/020aw068yfsq84h6scmnvfrjacmznsgz-profile/bin/
>grep -E
>checking for ANSI C header files... yes
>checking for sys/types.h... yes
>checking for sys/stat.h... yes
>checking for stdlib.h... yes
>checking for string.h... yes
>checking for memory.h... yes
>checking for strings.h... yes
>checking for inttypes.h... yes
>checking for stdint.h... yes
>checking for unistd.h... yes
>checking minix/config.h usability... no
>checking minix/config.h presence... no
>checking for minix/config.h... no
>checking whether it is safe to define __EXTENSIONS__... yes
>checking whether NLS is requested... yes
>checking for msgfmt...
>/gnu/store/020aw068yfsq84h6scmnvfrjacmznsgz-profile/bin/
>msgfmt
>checking for gmsgfmt...
>/gnu/store/020aw068yfsq84h6scmnvfrjacmznsgz-profile/
>bin/msgfmt
>checking for xgettext...
>/gnu/store/020aw068yfsq84h6scmnvfrjacmznsgz-profile/
>bin/xgettext
>checking for msgmerge...
>/gnu/store/020aw068yfsq84h6scmnvfrjacmznsgz-profile/
>bin/msgmerge
>checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
>checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
>checking for ld used by GCC...
>/gnu/store/020aw068yfsq84h6scmnvfrjacmznsgz-
>profile/bin/ld
>checking if the linker
>(/gnu/store/020aw068yfsq84h6scmnvfrjacmznsgz-profile/
>bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
>checking for shared library run path origin... done
>checking for CFPreferencesCopyAppValue... no
>checking for CFLocaleCopyCurrent... no
>checking for GNU gettext in libc... yes
>checking whether to use NLS... yes
>checking where the gettext function comes from... libc
>checking for sed...
>/gnu/store/020aw068yfsq84h6scmnvfrjacmznsgz-profile/bin/sed
>checking for the Guix system type... x86_64-linux
>checking for the store directory... /gnu/store
>checking the length of the installed socket file name... 40
>checking for unit test root directory...
>/home/aleksandar/Developer/guix/test-
>tmp
>checking the length of the socket file name used in tests... 72
>checking the length of a typical hash bang line... 73
>checking the length of a hash bang line used in tests... 109
>checking for pkg-config...
>/gnu/store/020aw068yfsq84h6scmnvfrjacmznsgz-profile/
>bin/pkg-config
>checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
>configure: checking for guile 2.2
>configure: found guile 2.2
>checking for guile-2.2... /usr/bin/guile-2.2
>checking for Guile version >= 2.2... 2.2.4
>checking for guild-2.2... no
>checking for guile-config-2.2... no
>checking for guile-tools-2.2... no
>configure: error: 'guild' binary not found; please check your guile-2.x
>
>installation.
>
>The guild binary is available, the output of `which guild` is
>
>guix$ which guild
>/gnu/store/020aw068yfsq84h6scmnvfrjacmznsgz-profile/bin/guild
>
>I am running Guix on a foreign distro (Kubuntu 18.10) if that matters.

I get that too on foreign distros. Here configure finds your distso's guile (in 
/usr/bin). Try to run configure inside a pure guix environment:

guix environment guix --pure -- ./configure