Bootstrap script only works with guix environment, not with guix shell

[Zelphir Kaltstahl]

Hello Guix developers!

I am messing around again with updating a package and according to my own guide from previous adventures, I have to run the following command to generate the `pre-inst-env` script, in the root directory of the guix sources:

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guix environment guix -- ./bootstrap
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But then I remembered, that actually `guix shell` is the newer thing and changed it to:

~~~~
guix shell guix -- ./bootstrap
~~~~

However, this does not work. I get an error:

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$ guix shell guix -- ./bootstrap
+ find po/doc -type f -name guix-manual*.po
+ sed -e s,.*/guix-manual\.,,;s,\.po$,,
+ langs=fr
ru
es
pt_BR
de
zh_CN
+ [ ! -e doc/guix.fr.texi ]
+ [ ! -e doc/guix.ru.texi ]
+ [ ! -e doc/guix.es.texi ]
+ [ ! -e doc/guix.pt_BR.texi ]
+ [ ! -e doc/guix.de.texi ]
+ [ ! -e doc/guix.zh_CN.texi ]
+ find po/doc -type f -name guix-cookbook*.po
+ sed -e s,.*/guix-cookbook\.,,;s,\.po$,,
+ langs=de
fr
sk
ko
+ [ ! -e doc/guix-cookbook.de.texi ]
+ [ ! -e doc/guix-cookbook.fr.texi ]
+ [ ! -e doc/guix-cookbook.sk.texi ]
+ [ ! -e doc/guix-cookbook.ko.texi ]
+ exec autoreconf -vfi
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: running: autopoint --force
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf --force
configure.ac:92: error: possibly undefined macro: GUILE_MODULE_AVAILABLE
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
configure.ac:99: error: possibly undefined macro: GUILE_PKG
configure.ac:100: error: possibly undefined macro: GUILE_PROGS
autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1
~~~~

When I use `guix environment` it works:

~~~~
 guix environment guix -- ./bootstrap
+ find po/doc -type f -name guix-manual*.po
+ sed -e s,.*/guix-manual\.,,;s,\.po$,,
+ langs=fr
ru
es
pt_BR
de
zh_CN
+ [ ! -e doc/guix.fr.texi ]
+ [ ! -e doc/guix.ru.texi ]
+ [ ! -e doc/guix.es.texi ]
+ [ ! -e doc/guix.pt_BR.texi ]
+ [ ! -e doc/guix.de.texi ]
+ [ ! -e doc/guix.zh_CN.texi ]
+ find po/doc -type f -name guix-cookbook*.po
+ sed -e s,.*/guix-cookbook\.,,;s,\.po$,,
+ langs=de
fr
sk
ko
+ [ ! -e doc/guix-cookbook.de.texi ]
+ [ ! -e doc/guix-cookbook.fr.texi ]
+ [ ! -e doc/guix-cookbook.sk.texi ]
+ [ ! -e doc/guix-cookbook.ko.texi ]
+ exec autoreconf -vfi
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: running: autopoint --force
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool
autoreconf: running: /gnu/store/km9l89sd4wm9jp358481v2z6qacwl2h9-autoconf-2.69/bin/autoconf --force
autoreconf: running: /gnu/store/km9l89sd4wm9jp358481v2z6qacwl2h9-autoconf-2.69/bin/autoheader --force
autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --force-missing
Makefile.am:816: warning: AM_GNU_GETTEXT used but 'po' not in SUBDIRS
autoreconf: Leaving directory `.'
~~~~

I do not know, if this is intentional or not, but I thought that `guix environment` will be phased out or something.

Here is my installed guix version:

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$ guix describe
  guix d7d2340
    repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
    branch: master
    commit: d7d23407213247d0173eabd2c769f2b98cef4fe9

$ guix --version
guix (GNU Guix) 0
Copyright (C) 2022 the Guix authors
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
~~~~

I did `guix pull && guix package -u` just a few minutes ago, so everything should be quite up-to-date.

Best regards,
Zelphir

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