Subject: bug#39294: Can't run ./configure

From: Damien Cassou <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 09:17:44 +0100

Julien Lepiller <[email-masked]> writes:
> $ guix environment guix --pure
> ^C if your terminal asks you to install whatever
> [env]$ ./bootstrap
> [env]$ ./configure --localstatedir=/var # this should now work
> [env]$ exit # to exit the pure environment
> $ guix environment guix # no need for pure anymore, so now we can use things outside of the environment too
> [env]$ make

This did the trick, thank you. I got a lot of error messages though:

$ guix environment guix
guile: warning: failed to install locale
substitute: /gnu/store/q19l04vd2za80mk1845pz7r8cz29qk43-bash-minimal-4.4.23/bin/bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.utf8)

perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
	LANGUAGE = (unset),
	LC_ALL = (unset),
	LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.

bash: gpg-connect-agent: command not found...
Similar command is: 'gpg-connect-agent'
bash: gpgconf: command not found...
Install package 'gnupg2' to provide command 'gpgconf'? [N/y] y

Failed to install packages: gnupg2-2.2.18-2.fc31.x86_64 is already installed

-- 
Damien Cassou

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without
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