From 6a4364335c967f841b53ed35c22f90445437e4b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ludovic Courtès Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2017 23:08:44 +0200 Subject: doc: Suggest running guix-daemon with 'sudo -E'. Suggested by Martin H. . * doc/contributing.texi (Running Guix Before It Is Installed): Suggest 'sudo -E'. --- doc/contributing.texi | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) 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 -- cgit 1.4.1