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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 4b47d44757..5049481f6c 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -227,7 +227,6 @@ Introduction Installation * Binary Installation:: Getting Guix running in no time! -* Requirements:: Software needed to build and run Guix. * Running the Test Suite:: Testing Guix. * Setting Up the Daemon:: Preparing the build daemon's environment. * Invoking guix-daemon:: Running the build daemon. @@ -716,7 +715,6 @@ Once installed, Guix can be updated by running @command{guix pull} @menu * Binary Installation:: Getting Guix running in no time! -* Requirements:: Software needed to build and run Guix. * Running the Test Suite:: Testing Guix. * Setting Up the Daemon:: Preparing the build daemon's environment. * Invoking guix-daemon:: Running the build daemon. @@ -803,103 +801,6 @@ For example, @end example @end quotation -@node Requirements -@section Requirements - -This section lists requirements when building Guix from source. The -build procedure for Guix is the same as for other GNU software, and is -not covered here. Please see the files @file{README} and @file{INSTALL} -in the Guix source tree for additional details. - -@cindex official website -GNU Guix is available for download from its website at -@url{https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/}. - -GNU Guix depends on the following packages: - -@itemize -@item @url{https://gnu.org/software/guile/, GNU Guile}, version 3.0.x, -version 3.0.3 or later; -@item @url{https://notabug.org/cwebber/guile-gcrypt, Guile-Gcrypt}, version -0.1.0 or later; -@item -@uref{https://gitlab.com/gnutls/guile/, Guile-GnuTLS} (@pxref{Guile -Preparations, how to install the GnuTLS bindings for Guile,, -gnutls-guile, GnuTLS-Guile})@footnote{The Guile bindings to -@uref{https://gnutls.org/, GnuTLS} were distributed as part of GnuTLS -until version 3.7.8 included.}; -@item -@uref{https://notabug.org/guile-sqlite3/guile-sqlite3, Guile-SQLite3}, version 0.1.0 -or later; -@item @uref{https://notabug.org/guile-zlib/guile-zlib, Guile-zlib}, -version 0.1.0 or later; -@item @uref{https://notabug.org/guile-lzlib/guile-lzlib, Guile-lzlib}; -@item @uref{https://www.nongnu.org/guile-avahi/, Guile-Avahi}; -@item -@uref{https://gitlab.com/guile-git/guile-git, Guile-Git}, version 0.5.0 -or later; -@item @uref{https://git-scm.com, Git} (yes, both!); -@item @uref{https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/guile-json/, Guile-JSON} -4.3.0 or later; -@item @url{https://www.gnu.org/software/make/, GNU Make}. -@end itemize - -The following dependencies are optional: - -@itemize -@item -@c Note: We need at least 0.13.0 for #:nodelay. -Support for build offloading (@pxref{Daemon Offload Setup}) and -@command{guix copy} (@pxref{Invoking guix copy}) depends on -@uref{https://github.com/artyom-poptsov/guile-ssh, Guile-SSH}, -version 0.13.0 or later. - -@item -@uref{https://notabug.org/guile-zstd/guile-zstd, Guile-zstd}, for zstd -compression and decompression in @command{guix publish} and for -substitutes (@pxref{Invoking guix publish}). - -@item -@uref{https://ngyro.com/software/guile-semver.html, Guile-Semver} for -the @code{crate} importer (@pxref{Invoking guix import}). - -@item -@uref{https://www.nongnu.org/guile-lib/doc/ref/htmlprag/, Guile-Lib} for -the @code{go} importer (@pxref{Invoking guix import}) and for some of -the ``updaters'' (@pxref{Invoking guix refresh}). - -@item -When @url{http://www.bzip.org, libbz2} is available, -@command{guix-daemon} can use it to compress build logs. -@end itemize - -Unless @option{--disable-daemon} was passed to @command{configure}, the -following packages are also needed: - -@itemize -@item @url{https://gnupg.org/, GNU libgcrypt}; -@item @url{https://sqlite.org, SQLite 3}; -@item @url{https://gcc.gnu.org, GCC's g++}, with support for the -C++11 standard. -@end itemize - -@cindex state directory -@cindex localstatedir -@cindex system configuration directory -@cindex sysconfdir -When configuring Guix on a system that already has a Guix installation, -be sure to specify the same state directory as the existing installation -using the @option{--localstatedir} option of the @command{configure} -script (@pxref{Directory Variables, @code{localstatedir},, standards, -GNU Coding Standards}). Usually, this @var{localstatedir} option is set -to the value @file{/var}. The @command{configure} script protects -against unintended misconfiguration of @var{localstatedir} so you do not -inadvertently corrupt your store (@pxref{The Store}). The configuration -directory should also be configured by setting the @option{--sysconfdir} -option to the @file{/etc} value, which is the location used by Guix to -store for example the access control list of authorized machines and the -definition of offload machines. - @node Running the Test Suite @section Running the Test Suite |