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

From: Julien Lepiller <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 08:33:32 -0500

Le 28 janvier 2020 03:31:39 GMT-05:00, Efraim Flashner <[email-masked]> a écrit :
>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.
>> 

Also try guix install glibc-utf8-locales (and maybe the same for root, I'm not sure).

>
>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

This message is from fedora, not guix. Apparently it tries to run gpg-agent, but it can't because you're in a pure environment (the $PATH does not contain /usr/bin or /bin). However, the package is already installed, so dnf can't do anything :)

At this question, just kill it with a ^C, because if you say no, it will ask the same for other packages.

>
>gpg-connect-agent and gpg-connect-agent look similar to me too ...
>
>not sure about gpgconf. Could it have something to do with SElinux?