Subject: Re: bug#20394: Guix 44fd6ef built within guix fails to create /etc/bash_completion.d

From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 14:19:43 +0200

Mark H Weaver <[email-masked]> skribis:

> I attempted to update guix-devel to 44fd6ef, but got this error during
> the install phase:
>
>  /gnu/store/7an2gbwqav1pv9kk4xkslrb45qn44j7w-coreutils-8.23/bin/mkdir -p '/etc/bash_completion.d'
> /gnu/store/7an2gbwqav1pv9kk4xkslrb45qn44j7w-coreutils-8.23/bin/mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/etc/bash_completion.d’: Permission denied
> Makefile:3000: recipe for target 'install-dist_bashcompletionDATA' failed
> make[3]: *** [install-dist_bashcompletionDATA] Error 1

I think this is fixed with:

diff --git a/gnu/packages/package-management.scm b/gnu/packages/package-management.scm
index 131cbcd..5340d42 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/package-management.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/package-management.scm
@@ -67,6 +67,9 @@
      `(#:configure-flags (list
                           "--localstatedir=/var"
                           "--sysconfdir=/etc"
+                          (string-append "--with-bash-completion-dir="
+                                         (assoc-ref %outputs "out")
+                                         "/etc/bash_completion.d")
                           (string-append "--with-libgcrypt-prefix="
                                          (assoc-ref %build-inputs
                                                     "libgcrypt")))

Can you confirm?

Thanks,
Ludo’.