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diff --git a/doc/contributing.texi b/doc/contributing.texi index 00edd47710..98971a9bbc 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 |