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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2018-07-04 14:36:07 +0200 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2018-07-04 14:36:07 +0200 |
| commit | 0207768fc9149461a010d7bf85cd5460b5d839e9 (patch) | |
| tree | c74f873fd3a92c6faeb46805593b1978d7a54a04 /doc/contributing.texi | |
| parent | 5b0c648a7c5ac3d827bb6fc61b3b2037a2d4b62c (diff) | |
| download | guix-0207768fc9149461a010d7bf85cd5460b5d839e9.tar.gz | |
doc: Mention the build environment.
* doc/contributing.texi (Running Guix Before It Is Installed): Add a note about having the dependencies available.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/contributing.texi | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/contributing.texi b/doc/contributing.texi index ca44b3b0b0..8feb519b0a 100644 --- a/doc/contributing.texi +++ b/doc/contributing.texi @@ -108,7 +108,9 @@ actually installing them. So that you can distinguish between your ``end-user'' hat and your ``motley'' costume. To that end, all the command-line tools can be used even if you have not -run @code{make install}. To do that, prefix each command with +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 @command{sudo} guarantees that @code{GUILE_LOAD_PATH} is correctly set |