Re: 14.1 Building from Git

[Ricardo Wurmus]

mikadoZero <address@hidden> writes:

> I am trying to follow the instruction in the Contributing section of the
> manual, as I want to submit some patches.  Following "14.1 Building from
> Git" I am getting an error when running `./bootstrap`.
>
> `guix describe`
> guix 19c0cdb
>     repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
>     branch: master
>     commit: 19c0cdb9e6271956015232421ef7f63a1ad001ae
>
> Here is what I am doing that leads to the error.
>
> `git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git`
>
> `cd guix`
>
> `guix environment guix`

Could you try if you get different behaviour with “guix environment
--pure guix”?

> configure.ac:88: error: possibly undefined macro: PKG_CHECK_MODULES
>       If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
>       See the Autoconf documentation.
> configure.ac:89: error: possibly undefined macro: GUILE_MODULE_AVAILABLE
> configure.ac:96: error: possibly undefined macro: GUILE_PKG
> configure.ac:97: error: possibly undefined macro: GUILE_PROGS

This looks like some environment variables are not set properly.  If you
set variables in ~/.bashrc, for example, (instead of ~/.bash_profile)
that could interfere with “guix environment”.

Could you please show the output of “env” after you ran “guix
environment guix”?

--
Ricardo