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diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING index 417d279787..9ec3c041e0 100644 --- a/HACKING +++ b/HACKING @@ -12,14 +12,25 @@ Copyright © 2013 Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org> * 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 +When building Guix from a checkout, the following packages are required in +addition to those mentioned in the installation instructions: + + - [[http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/][GNU Autoconf]] + - [[http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/][GNU Automake]] + - [[http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/][GNU Gettext]] + - [[http://www.graphviz.org/][Graphviz]] + +Run ‘./bootstrap’ to download the Nix daemon source code and to generate the +build system infrastructure using autoconf. It reports an error if an +inappropriate version of the above packages is being used. + +The ‘bootstrap’ script, among other things, invokes ‘git submodule update’; if +you didn’t run it, you may 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 +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)' @@ -32,17 +43,9 @@ installed Automake in ‘/usr/local’, it wouldn’t look for ‘.m4’ files i 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>. +<guix-devel@gnu.org>. * Running Guix before it is installed |