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authorLudovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes@inria.fr>2020-10-08 09:42:54 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2020-10-08 12:26:56 +0200
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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.
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@@ -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