compile.log was rather informative. I ended up with a working configure, but now make fails with:
g++ -Wall -std=c++0x -g -O2 -L/home/cog/pprins/.nix-profile/lib -o guix-daemon nix/nix-daemon/guix_daemon-nix-daemon.o nix/nix-daemon/guix_daemon-guix-daemon.o libstore.a libutil.a libformat.a -lbz2 -L/nix/store/7svaxfvzl8hb7ap3fjfyrqdw3bxi8pd3-sqlite-3.8.4.3/lib -lsqlite3 -L/nix/store/gic3zisxrq8vir427366l51l0dyzg5ls-libgcrypt-1.5.3/lib -lgcrypt /nix/store/pdskwizjw8ar31hql2wjnnx6g0s6xc50-glibc-2.19/lib/libpthread.so.0: undefined reference to `__mktemp@GLIBC_PRIVATE' /nix/store/pdskwizjw8ar31hql2wjnnx6g0s6xc50-glibc-2.19/lib/libpthread.so.0: undefined reference to `__call_tls_dtors@GLIBC_PRIVATE' /nix/store/pdskwizjw8ar31hql2wjnnx6g0s6xc50-glibc-2.19/lib/libpthread.so.0: undefined reference to `__madvise@GLIBC_PRIVATE' /home/cog/pprins/.nix-profile/lib/libsqlite3.so: undefined reference to `memcpy@GLIBC_2.14' /nix/store/pdskwizjw8ar31hql2wjnnx6g0s6xc50-glibc-2.19/lib/libpthread.so.0: undefined reference to `__ctype_init@GLIBC_PRIVATE' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status Ouch. ldd /nix/store/pdskwizjw8ar31hql2wjnnx6g0s6xc50-glibc-2.19/lib/libpthread.so.0 shows /nix/store/pdskwizjw8ar31hql2wjnnx6g0s6xc50-glibc-2.19/lib/libpthread.so.0: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by /nix/store/pdskwizjw8ar31hql2wjnnx6g0s6xc50-glibc-2.19/lib/libpthread.so.0) linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fff5a293000) libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007f8e6f0df000) /nix/store/pdskwizjw8ar31hql2wjnnx6g0s6xc50-glibc-2.19/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 => /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00000035c5800000) Hmmm. Something must have gone wrong compiling glibc-2.19. That is odd, very odd. I know was messing with the LD paths, but I did not think that would influence Nix builds. Do I need a fresh Nix install? Interestingly I found a Guix expression in Nixpkgs! It is dated, guix-0.3, but works. Anything I need to know to update that to guix-0.6? I may do just that :) https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/tools/package-management/guix/default.nix Pj.