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| author | Rostislav Svoboda <rostislav.svoboda@gmail.com> | 2021-11-15 14:10:20 +0100 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2021-11-17 23:05:58 +0100 |
| commit | fa67d6eef67092aff355d769a38d8bb46b4b8c48 (patch) | |
| tree | 6a4901e4bbda27fd5ce9917a397e6b34aefc7600 | |
| parent | cb768f38604886da0feb10db6af391fb0d055d33 (diff) | |
| download | guix-fa67d6eef67092aff355d769a38d8bb46b4b8c48.tar.gz | |
doc: Improve wording for param spec of `./configure`.
* doc/contributing.texi (Running Guix Before It Is Installed): Writing "Do <this>. But it won't work unless ..." is a bad practice. Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/contributing.texi | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/contributing.texi b/doc/contributing.texi index db0f836157..aa6bfc2e65 100644 --- a/doc/contributing.texi +++ b/doc/contributing.texi @@ -120,12 +120,12 @@ export ACLOCAL_PATH=/usr/share/aclocal @xref{Macro Search Path,,, automake, The GNU Automake Manual}, for more information. -Then, run @command{./configure} as usual. Make sure to pass -@code{--localstatedir=@var{directory}} where @var{directory} is the -@code{localstatedir} value used by your current installation (@pxref{The -Store}, for information about this), usually @file{/var}. Note that you -will probably not run @command{make install} at the end (you don't have -to) but it's still important to pass the right @code{localstatedir}. +Then, run @command{./configure --localstatedir=@var{directory}}, where +@var{directory} is the @code{localstatedir} value used by your current +installation (@pxref{The Store}, for information about this), usually +@file{/var}. Note that you will probably not run @command{make install} +at the end (you don't have to) but it's still important to pass the +right @code{localstatedir}. Finally, you have to invoke @code{make && make check} to build Guix and run the tests (@pxref{Running the Test Suite}). If anything fails, take |