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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes@inria.fr> | 2020-10-08 09:42:54 +0200 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2020-10-08 12:26:56 +0200 |
| commit | 6f406e5d15ce477664dbf5c443c0db59ea3a06ec (patch) | |
| tree | 01b223c662c96fbb766d2f97f562907ace09755e | |
| parent | e463ee4c7bd44a7fdc372972fbc1d1ae8140f31b (diff) | |
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doc: Developers don't need to run "make install" in Guix.
Suggested by Emmanuel Agullo.
* doc/contributing.texi (Building from Git): Mention that running "make
install" is unnecessary.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/contributing.texi | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/contributing.texi b/doc/contributing.texi index 535cfc2a6f..c6b0ca523d 100644 --- a/doc/contributing.texi +++ b/doc/contributing.texi @@ -121,8 +121,9 @@ more information. Then, run @command{./configure} as usual. Make sure to pass @code{--localstatedir=@var{directory}} where @var{directory} is the @code{localstatedir} value used by your current installation (@pxref{The -Store}, for information about this). We recommend to use the value -@code{/var}. +Store}, for information about this), usually @file{/var}. Note that you +will probably not run @command{make install} at the end (you don't have +to) but it's still important to pass the right @code{localstatedir}. Finally, you have to invoke @code{make check} to run tests (@pxref{Running the Test Suite}). If anything |