Dear, Reading the release document [1] and going step by step, so I start from a fresh worktree and branch and I tweak a bit (maybe I am doing wrong) otherwise it fails:
./bootstrap && ./configure --localstatedir=/var/ make make GUIX_MAINTENANCE_DIRECTORY=../../maintenance update-NEWS make doc-pot-update then the target and the error: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ make release [...] make[4]: Leaving directory '/home/simon/src/guix/wk/rel/po/packages' make \ top_distdir="guix-1.0.1.22205-a8360-dirty" distdir="guix-1.0.1.22205-a8360-dirty" \ dist-info dist-hook make[4]: Entering directory '/home/simon/src/guix/wk/rel' GEN gen-ChangeLog GEN gen-AUTHORS echo 1.0.1.22205-a8360-dirty > "guix-1.0.1.22205-a8360-dirty/.tarball-version" guix-1.0.1.22205-a8360-dirty/gnu/packages/commencement.scm:// /gnu/store/cq0cmv35s9dhilx14zaghlc08gpc0hwr-tcc-boot0-0.9.26-6.c004e9a/lib/libc.a: error: 'sigprocmask' defined twice error: store file names embedded in the distribution make[4]: *** [Makefile:6335: assert-no-store-file-names] Error 1 --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- The checkout is based on commit a8360892d7. On IRC [2], it rings a bell. :-) The error should come from ’bash-mesboot0’ in (gnu packages commencement) at the ’modify-phases’ [3]: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- (add-after 'configure 'configure-fixups (lambda _ (substitute* "config.h" (("#define GETCWD_BROKEN 1") "#undef GETCWD_BROKEN")) (let ((config.h (open-file "config.h" "a"))) (display (string-append " // tcc: error: undefined symbol 'enable_hostname_completion' #define enable_hostname_completion(on_or_off) 0 // /gnu/store/cq0cmv35s9dhilx14zaghlc08gpc0hwr-tcc-boot0-0.9.26-6.c004e9a/lib/libc.a: error: 'sigprocmask' defined twice #define HAVE_POSIX_SIGNALS 1 #define endpwent(x) 0 ") config.h) (close config.h)) #t)) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Let indicate me how to investigate, I have no clue. :-) All the best, simon [1]: <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/maintenance.git/tree/doc/release.org> [2]: <http://logs.guix.gnu.org/guix/2020-09-15.log#175141> [3] <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/commencement.scm#n786>