GNU bug report logs - #39294
Can't run ./configure

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From: Julien Lepiller <julien <at> lepiller.eu>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org, zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>,
 39294-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Damien Cassou <damien <at> cassou.me>
Subject: Re: bug#39294: Can't run ./configure
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 12:30:33 -0500

Le 29 janvier 2020 11:09:05 GMT-05:00, zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com> a écrit :
>On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 at 16:33, Damien Cassou <damien <at> cassou.me> wrote:
>
>> my issue is solved for me so you can close the bug. But the next
>Fedora
>> user will struggle similarly. You decide.
>
>I am not sure that if one user struggles similarly then they searches
>first in the bug tracker[*]. :-)
>And I am not convinced that it is bug neither. :-)
>
>
>Well, I am closing.
>
>All the best,
>simon
>
>[*] or the user is an Emacs user. ;-)

We could fix the documentation to recommend using --pure when running confiqure, but not afterwards, with a warning that some systems might ask you to install software you already have, and you should ignore that. How does that sound?

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