Re: how to install from binary

[Mason Hock]

That makes sense. Thanks for clarifying!

Mason

On Mon, 2017-11-13 at 10:57 +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Mason Hock <address@hidden> skribis:
> 
> > 
> > Guix seems to be building everything from source, which can take a
> > while. As per these instructions I tried
> > 
> > # cd [prefix]/share/guix/hydra.gnu.org.pub
> > # guix archive --authorize < hydra.gnu.org.pub
> > and got
> > 
> > guile: warning: failed to install locale
> > warning: failed to install locale: Invalid argument
> > 
> > with no other output. I get that error almost every time I try to
> > do
> > something with Guix and it usually works anyway.
> Right, it’s a warning (not an error), so you can proceed.  To address
> it, see
> <https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Application-Setup
> .html#Locales>.
> 
> > 
> > Since I got no other errors I just kept going with
> > 
> > $ guix build emacs --dry-run
> > 
> > and got "The following derivations would be built:" so apparently
> > it
> > did not work.
> It depends.  It may be that some derivations would be built, and
> others
> would be downloaded.  That can happen for instance if the build farm
> hasn’t yet built the Emacs you’re asking for.
> 
> > 
> > During an installation I do see a lot of "updating list of
> > substitutes"
> > messages, but I also frequently see the word "build" and a lot of
> > .c
> > and .h files go by, which combined with the long installation time
> > makes me doubt that it is actually downloading binaries from the
> > substitutes and installing them.
> We arrange for the build farm to provide binaries as fast as
> possible,
> but sometimes it’s just lagging behind and users have to build from
> source.
> 
> HTH!
> 
> Ludo’.