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diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING index 9d8960c1ab..417d279787 100644 --- a/HACKING +++ b/HACKING @@ -3,12 +3,47 @@ #+TITLE: Hacking GNU Guix and Its Incredible Distro Copyright © 2012, 2013 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> +Copyright © 2013 Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org> Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved. +* Building from Git + +First, make sure that Autoconf (>= 2.69), Automake, and pkg-config are +installed. Run ‘./bootstrap’ that, among other things, invokes ‘git submodule +update’, or you might 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 + + ./configure: line 6755: `PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GUILE, guile-2.0 >= 2.0.5)' + +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 +installed Automake in ‘/usr/local’, it wouldn’t look for ‘.m4’ files in +‘/usr/share’. So you have to invoke the following command in that case + + $ export ACLOCAL_PATH=/usr/share/aclocal + +See “info '(automake) Macro Search Path'” for more information. + +After that you should proceed with ‘make’. You might also get this error + + /bin/bash: dot: command not found + make[2]: *** [doc/images/bootstrap-graph.png] Error 127 + +This one is easy to handle; just install Graphviz. It is not listed as a +requirement because the resulting images should come with a tarball. + +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 +<bug-guix@gnu.org>. + * Running Guix before it is installed Command-line tools can be used even if you have not run "make install". |