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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2017-08-05 23:08:44 +0200 |
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| committer | Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> | 2018-01-17 15:48:22 -0800 |
| commit | 67441b9a6ebd4be094a88f6ea4555de026de4dfc (patch) | |
| tree | f61eee07ea93e41c73d4017a1db6fc7fbb54b1a1 /doc/contributing.texi | |
| parent | 28b48c87c5ffedaaa8ff9cb5d001c03fb3380660 (diff) | |
| download | guix-67441b9a6ebd4be094a88f6ea4555de026de4dfc.tar.gz | |
doc: Suggest running guix-daemon with 'sudo -E'.
Suggested by Martin H. <maze@strahlungsfrei.de>. * doc/contributing.texi (Running Guix Before It Is Installed): Suggest 'sudo -E'.
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diff --git a/doc/contributing.texi b/doc/contributing.texi index 01f8aad9fb..d8929fa2e4 100644 --- a/doc/contributing.texi +++ b/doc/contributing.texi @@ -110,10 +110,13 @@ actually installing them. So that you can distinguish between your 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 @command{./pre-inst-env} (the @file{pre-inst-env} script lives in the -top build tree of Guix), as in: +top build tree of Guix), 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.}: @example -$ sudo ./pre-inst-env guix-daemon --build-users-group=guixbuild +$ sudo -E ./pre-inst-env guix-daemon --build-users-group=guixbuild $ ./pre-inst-env guix build hello @end example |