Hi Ricardo, Thank you for your help.
> I’m in the same situation upgrading a machine that didn’t have an > Internet connection for months. > > Here’s what I do: > > - use a git checkout to jump to commit > b0cb92b2d43a2c4d5fa9b3f8c04c5732c60061e7, which adds guile-gcrypt > > - ./bootstrap && ./configure --localstatedir=/var && make clean && > make > > - ./pre-inst-env guix package -i guile guile-sqlite3 guile-json > guile-ssh guile-gcrypt > > - update to the latest version I am following the recipe but have hit trouble at the configure stage: $./configure --localstatedir=/var . . . configure: error: Guile-Git is missing; please install it. This takes me back to the libgit2 unavailability problem. I have not been able to find a way to provide a sufficient build environment (I have upgraded the OS to Ubuntu 18.04 in the meantime). Any suggestions? Paul.
