Hi Guix, I slightly botched the last numpy update: setting $SHELL works, but then we have to set $SHELL for every package which uses numpy's distutils. I don't know how many packages there are, but it includes scipy and python-hdf (and therefore those builds are currently broken on master...). The attached patch should fix the issue for all packages, by setting the default shell to the “/bin/sh” of the build environment's bash package (i.e. bash-minimal). Thomas