Konrad Hinsen <[email protected]> writes: > On 26/05/2017 16:56, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > >>> in order to prevent Guix from overwriting some of Ubuntu's system files. >> >> Guix will not overwrite any system files. It only writes to /gnu, >> /var/guix, and /etc/guix. > > It did when I first tried install-from-source a few months ago, and it > took me a while to clean up the mess. More precisely, it put a lot of > stuff into /usr/local, overwriting files in /usr/local/share that > Ubuntu-installed software depended on. If that has changed in the > meantime, that's great.
I don’t think it ever behaved like that, because it hardly has anything to install. Hence I don’t think there have been any changes. Without additional details it’s not very productive to talk about this, though. >> No, the configure script is probably okay. Maybe something’s up with >> your environment. Have you tried “guix environment --pure guix”? > > I just did. No difference. Same config.log, same Makefile, same error > messages. Could you share the output of “env” within the pure guix environment? -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net
