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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2018-11-16 23:16:05 +0100 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2018-11-16 23:16:05 +0100 |
| commit | bca6396749492ea9f48b4bc31054d986e31b3e52 (patch) | |
| tree | 52fad53939eccca4ee7e07b55efbbbf9e3cb2ea1 /doc | |
| parent | 243bdcc12e40c8dbd1129fa5b613d8f247744f31 (diff) | |
| download | guix-bca6396749492ea9f48b4bc31054d986e31b3e52.tar.gz | |
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.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/contributing.texi | 3 |
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.}: |