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

From: Efraim Flashner <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 10:31:39 +0200

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 09:17:44AM +0100, Damien Cassou wrote:
> 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.
> 

In the daemon service file you can change the Environment field to
change LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 to en_US.UTF-8.

> 
> 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

gpg-connect-agent and gpg-connect-agent look similar to me too ...

not sure about gpgconf. Could it have something to do with SElinux?

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