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* README: Mention default 'localstatedir' and that 'configure'
needs to be re-run.
---
 README | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README b/README
index 296df41516..4d459c276d 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -65,6 +65,9 @@ To do so:
     value of the currently installed Guix (failing to do that would lead=
 the
     new Guix to consider the store to be empty!).
=20
+    On Guix System, this is '/var' by default. Note that you will need t=
o
+    re-run the 'configure' script after updating Guix System.
+
   - Run "make", "make check", and "make install".
=20
 * How It Works
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Subject: [bug#35936] [PATCH] README: add Guix System configure hints
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Hi Robert,

thank you for the patch.

> * README: Mention default 'localstatedir' and that 'configure'
> needs to be re-run.
> ---
>  README | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/README b/README
> index 296df41516..4d459c276d 100644
> --- a/README
> +++ b/README
> @@ -65,6 +65,9 @@ To do so:
>      value of the currently installed Guix (failing to do that would lead=
 the
>      new Guix to consider the store to be empty!).
>
> +    On Guix System, this is '/var' by default. Note that you will need to
> +    re-run the 'configure' script after updating Guix System.
> +

Why would re-running the configure script be required after updating?

This section is about building Guix on a system that already has some
version of Guix to reduce the complexity of establishing a suitable
build environment.  I don=E2=80=99t think reconfiguring Guix System is rele=
vant
here.

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Ricardo

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> On 28. May 2019, at 12:34, Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@HIDDEN> wrote:
>>=20
>> +    On Guix System, this is '/var' by default. Note that you will =
need to
>> +    re-run the 'configure' script after updating Guix System.
>> +
>=20
> Why would re-running the configure script be required after updating?
>=20
> This section is about building Guix on a system that already has some
> version of Guix to reduce the complexity of establishing a suitable
> build environment.  I don=E2=80=99t think reconfiguring Guix System is =
relevant
> here.

It=E2=80=99s my attempt to help people not be as confused as I was. =
Maybe there
are better ways to achieve this? The two situations:

1. I followed the README instructions to build guix, and was quite =
confused
by the `localstatedir` business. I seem to be doing the most =
straightforward
thing, but have to dig through documentation/internet to continue since =
I
have no idea what/where localstatedir is. (I still don=E2=80=99t, and =
have been
doing quite fine without the knowledge.)

2. I ran guix pull && guix package -u. And afterwards, the guix =
development
environment was broken in an obscure way. Re-running guix environment =
guix
didn=E2=80=99t help. It turns out configure stores some full paths to =
core utilities,
such as

$ grep ^MKDIR_P config.status=20
MKDIR_P=3D'/gnu/store/lkrj6zifhk5dk888713dqyzfwk5bich0-profile/bin/mkdir =
-p=E2=80=99

To me it=E2=80=99s entirely unexpected that after a small OS update my =
dev environment
should break in this way.

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