Re: GUIX_LOCPATH problems with guix on gentoo

[Ricardo Wurmus]

ng0 <address@hidden> writes:

> On 2016-06-18(09:45:12+0200), Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I found it very hard to read this email, because there are so many
>> non-essential things pasted in the body :-/
>
> I wasn't sure what's useful information and what's not.
>
>> I hope I didn't miss anything important while I paged through your
>> email, but one thing stood out to:
>>
>> ng0 <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> >     python: stdout/stderr:     import json                                 
>> >                                                                            
>> >             perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("Cpython: 
>> > stdout/stderr:   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/__init__.py", line 108, in 
>> > <module>
>> >     python: stdout/stderr:     from .decoder import JSONDecoder
>> >     python: stdout/stderr:   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", 
>> > line 5, in <module>
>> >     python: stdout/stderr:     import struct
>> >     python: stdout/stderr:   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/struct.py", line 1, 
>> > in <module>
>> >     python: stdout/stderr:     from _struct import *
>> >     python: stdout/stderr: ImportError: 
>> > /usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/_struct.so: undefined symbol: PyUnicode
>>
>> That's not okay.  You cannot mix Python from your system with Python
>> from Guix.  Do you have system stuff on your PYTHONPATH?  Do you have
>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH set?  Guix packages should never use system libraries.
>>
>> ~~ Ricardo
>
> In the beginning this was an experiment, to see if Guix
> would run unaffected on a gentoo-hardened kernel.
> I am switching back to a desktop/amd64 profile, will check if
> things changed.

The problem above is unrelated to the kernel.  For some reason libraries
from /usr/lib are used.  If this really is a Guix package then that’s
wrong.

> Checking right now, LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PYTHONPATH are not set,
> but LIBRARY_PATH is.

LIBRARY_PATH is harmless and only used at compile time.

~~ Ricardo