On 26/05/2017 16:56, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >> in order to prevent Guix from overwriting some of Ubuntu's system files. > > Guix will not overwrite any system files. It only writes to /gnu, > /var/guix, and /etc/guix. It did when I first tried install-from-source a few months ago, and it took me a while to clean up the mess. More precisely, it put a lot of stuff into /usr/local, overwriting files in /usr/local/share that Ubuntu-installed software depended on. If that has changed in the meantime, that's great. > No, the configure script is probably okay. Maybe something’s up with > your environment. Have you tried “guix environment --pure guix”? I just did. No difference. Same config.log, same Makefile, same error messages. Konrad.