Don't unzip the sources which were bundled originally. Guix strips them from the source and uses pre-build packages. Taken from https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-java/trunk/libxerces2-java/debian/patches/02_build_dont_unzip.patch?revision=14507 Index: b/build.xml =================================================================== --- a/build.xml +++ b/build.xml @@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ - + - +