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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2018-11-16 23:16:05 +0100
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2018-11-16 23:16:05 +0100
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parent243bdcc12e40c8dbd1129fa5b613d8f247744f31 (diff)
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doc: Mention that ./pre-inst-env is generated.
Suggested by swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net>.

* doc/contributing.texi (Running Guix Before It Is Installed): Mention
that ./pre-inst-env is generated.
-rw-r--r--doc/contributing.texi3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/contributing.texi b/doc/contributing.texi
index 91a87ef2dd..7417f28d14 100644
--- a/doc/contributing.texi
+++ b/doc/contributing.texi
@@ -112,7 +112,8 @@ run @code{make install}.  To do that, you first need to have an environment
 with all the dependencies available (@pxref{Building from Git}), and then
 simply prefix each command with
 @command{./pre-inst-env} (the @file{pre-inst-env} script lives in the
-top build tree of Guix), as in@footnote{The @option{-E} flag to
+top build tree of Guix; it is generated by @command{./configure}),
+as in@footnote{The @option{-E} flag to
 @command{sudo} guarantees that @code{GUILE_LOAD_PATH} is correctly set
 such that @command{guix-daemon} and the tools it uses can find the Guile
 modules they need.}: