Re: How to build Guix to send a patch when Guix build fails?

[zimoun]

On Fri, 2 Oct 2020 at 01:22, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
<GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org> wrote:

> >   git pull
> >   guix pull
> >   guix environment -C guix
> >   ./bootstrap
> >   ./configure --localstatedir=/var/
> >   make
>
> Apparently that didn't work on my pure x86_64 machine. It still kept
> not finding guile-json.

Hum?  Weird...  What does "guix describe" say?
And what does "guix show guix | grep guile-json" say?


> > If you do not want to update your profile, you can run:
> >
> >   guix time-machine --commit=51eb3e113c478f0683e92412785ee82e56c45621
> > \ -- environment -C guix
> >   ./bootstrap && ./configure --localstatedir=/var/ && make
> However that worked fine on that same machine.

It appears to me weird that this latter worked and not the previous
one.  Did you really run "guix pull" because running "guix environment
-C guix" &co.?

All the best,
simon