> ArchLinux installers of guix should be aware that the standard size of > /tmp on a 4 GB computer is too small for a full install of guix. > > Please enlarge your swap file and resize /tmp to like 20 GB, else > you will repeatedly break during > > guix package -i hello > > After those mods I successfully ran guix on Manjaro (Arch derivate).
What exactly goes wrong when /tmp is less that 4 GB? There are a handful of packages that require more than 4 GB of storage while building, but I don't believe any of them are required to build hello. after guix package -i hello there was 3 hours of building on a desktop machine. looked like a make world build was going on. I wonder why, since on a guixSD it installing hello was much faster. also beginners should be advised to make sure that `locale` does not print any errors. export LC_... vars in bashrc so locale is 100 percent OK BEFORE you go to install guix. Else you will run into `cannot set locale` error repeatedly.
