bug#66537: closed (configure: error: The Guile bindings of GnuTLS are missing)

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Your message dated Mon, 04 Dec 2023 22:51:51 +0100
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and subject line Re: [bug#67366] [PATCH] doc: Recommend building in ‘guix shell 
-CPW’.
has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #66537,
regarding configure: error: The Guile bindings of GnuTLS are missing
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> configure: error: The Guile bindings of GnuTLS are missing
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> Date: 
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> Sat, 14 Oct 2023 12:49:28 +0000
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> Hi,
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> I'm on Fedora and started a shell with:
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> ```
> guix shell -D guix help2man git strace --pure
> ```
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> And then:
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> ```
> ./bootstrap
> ./configure --localstatedir=/var
> ```
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> And it showed me this error:
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> ```
> [snip]
> checking for guile-3.0 >= 3.0.3... yes
> checking for guile-3.0... yes
> checking if (gnutls) is available... no
> configure: error: The Guile bindings of GnuTLS are missing; please 
> install them.
> ```
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> I started the shell again with some dependencies but no luck :(
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> ```
> guix shell -D guix git strace guile-gnutls gnutls --pure
> ```
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> My current (guix describe):
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> ```
>    guix 8e8d20b
>      repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
>      branch: master
>      commit: 8e8d20b6b35d3ab529f9045cc8a779cdcec9c471
> ```
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> -- 
> Hiep
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> Subject: 
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> Re: [bug#67366] [PATCH] doc: Recommend building in ‘guix shell -CPW’.
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> Date: 
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> Mon, 04 Dec 2023 22:51:51 +0100
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13)
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> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:
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> > This was prompted by <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/66537>, where someone
> > tried to build Guix within ‘guix shell --pure’ on a foreign distro and
> > found that ./configure would pick software from the host system.
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> > Suggested by Hiep Pham <hiepph9@proton.me>.
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> > * doc/contributing.texi (Building from Git): Recommend ‘guix shell -CPW’.
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> > Change-Id: I7694b482d982917fef6ec404f68ddacea761f482
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> Pushed as 01361d46b8e0481ad56665d7a06c276b08f59c6d.
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> Ludo'.
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