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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2013-12-07 12:12:41 +0100 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2013-12-07 12:12:41 +0100 |
| commit | 25ed6edb6c17e0c7817cb8b29a549b10c8654eba (patch) | |
| tree | 12aacb81c57e91d75910b44e9865a6e374473ecf /HACKING | |
| parent | a348b09ea9c1dd51c4ce8e16f2f0629c64b9feb6 (diff) | |
| download | guix-25ed6edb6c17e0c7817cb8b29a549b10c8654eba.tar.gz | |
doc: Adjust "Building from Git" instructions.
* HACKING (Building from Git): As a follow-up to ff1cbb9, update the error reported when pkg.m4 is missing. Suggested by John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>.
Diffstat (limited to 'HACKING')
| -rw-r--r-- | HACKING | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING index ef8fb27cbe..0dc2908318 100644 --- a/HACKING +++ b/HACKING @@ -30,9 +30,9 @@ you didn’t run it, you may get the following error: make: *** No rule to make target `nix/libstore/schema.sql', needed by `nix/libstore/schema.sql.hh' -Then, as always, run ‘./configure’. If you get an error like this one: +If you get an error like this one: - ./configure: line 6755: `PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GUILE, guile-2.0 >= 2.0.5)' + configure.ac:46: error: possibly undefined macro: PKG_CHECK_MODULES it probably means that Autoconf couldn’t find ‘pkg.m4’, which is provided by pkg-config. Make sure that ‘pkg.m4’ is available. For instance, if you @@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ installed Automake in ‘/usr/local’, it wouldn’t look for ‘.m4’ files i See “info '(automake) Macro Search Path'” for more information. +Then, run ‘./configure’ as usual. + Finally, you have to invoke ‘make check’ to run tests. If anything fails, take a look at “info '(guix) Installation'” or send a message to <guix-devel@gnu.org>. |