initial guix setup: unable to fork -- any recipe for the impatient?

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Hi,

I tried to get going with guix and again I was frustrated.  Is there
a tutorial or recipe that helps newbies to get started?

[Thinking that guix is a guile script, it very much surprised me that
 I need to bootstrap, configure and make.]

Anyway, below is what I tried

Greetings, Jan

$ ./bootstrap
$ ./configure && make
$ ./pre-inst-env guix package -i guile
$ guix package: error: failed to connect to 
`/usr/local/var/guix/daemon-socket/socket': No such file or directory
# oh, don't want that so, I probably need make install anyway?
# let's give up on pre-int-env for now and reconfigure into $HOME/pkg :-( 
$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/pkg/guix
$ make && make install
$ eval $(sh-pkg) #puts ~/pkg/*/package in *PATH
guix package: error: failed to connect to 
`/usr/local/var/guix/daemon-socket/socket': No such file or directory
# arg, apparently some dependency on config.status is broken
$ make clean 
$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/pkg/guix
make: *** No rule to make target `gnu/system/os-config.tmpl', needed by 
`doc/os-config.texi'.  Stop.
$ git status
        deleted:    gnu/system/os-config.tmpl
# great, well Git to the rescue
$ git reset --hard HEAD
$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/pkg/guix
$ make && make install
$ hash -r
$ guix-daemon&
# yay!
$ guix package -i guile
guix build: error: build failed: creating directory `/gnu': Permission denied
$ mkdir ~/gnu
$ sudo ln -s /home/janneke/gnu /
$ guix package -i guile
accepted connection from pid 12571, uid 1000
guix build: error: build failed: `/gnu' is not a directory  # AAARG
$ sudo mkdir /gnu  # not happy with this single-user perspective :-(
$ sudo mount --bind /home/janneke/gnu /gnu
$ guix package -i guile
accepted connection from pid 25996, uid 1000
guix package: warning: ambiguous package specification `guile'
guix package: warning: choosing guile-2.0.11 from gnu/packages/base.scm:1130:33
substitute-binary: guix substitute-binary: warning: ACL for archive imports 
seems to be uninitialized, substitutes may be unavailable
# hmm, cannot find in the docs whether and how to initialize archive? anyway
The following derivations will be built:
   /gnu/store/60kbfbqhm43h1bn6mjzcz7yj27z6gi4b-profile.drv
    ...
   /gnu/store/7bihc3nms3pshmzhsv4wqyr9kgqn78a9-libgc-7.4.0.drv
   /gnu/store/4c2w8jchwkfd3flk5fg3kk282wx74rl1-gmp-6.0.0a.drv
guix package: error: build failed: unable to fork: Operation not permitted
1005 operations

:-(

I *am* very happy with Emacs' shell buffer, as you can see ;-)

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