GNU bug report logs - #57436
Running ./configure from `guix shell -D guix --pure` errors

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Katherine Cox-Buday <cox.katherine.e <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 17:34:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #20 received at 57436 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Katherine Cox-Buday <cox.katherine.e <at> gmail.com>
To: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>
Cc: 57436 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#57436: Running ./configure from `guix shell -D guix --pure`
 errors
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2022 09:56:42 -0600

Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be> writes:

> Maybe ./configure somehow picks up an old g++ from outside the "guix shell"
> environment.

This turned out to be the issue. I discovered my shell startup files were
mis-configured by running `guix shell --pure --check -D guix`. This is
definitely a user error, and my fault, but maybe we should update the manual
to include the `--check` flag?

-- 
Katherine
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