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authorMark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>2015-06-10 17:50:27 -0400
committerMark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>2015-06-10 17:50:27 -0400
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#+TITLE: Hacking GNU Guix and Its Incredible Distro
-Copyright © 2012, 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
+Copyright © 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Copyright © 2013 Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org>
Copyright © 2014 Pierre-Antoine Rault <par@rigelk.eu>
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ addition to those mentioned in the installation instructions:
- [[http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/][GNU Automake]]
- [[http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/][GNU Gettext]]
- [[http://www.graphviz.org/][Graphviz]]
+ - [[http://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/][GNU Help2man]] (optional)
Run ‘./bootstrap’ to download the Nix daemon source code and to generate the
build system infrastructure using autoconf. It reports an error if an
@@ -46,17 +47,7 @@ take a look at “info '(guix) Installation'” or send a message to
* Running Guix before it is installed
-Command-line tools can be used even if you have not run "make install".
-To do that, prefix each command with ‘./pre-inst-env’, as in:
-
- ./pre-inst-env guix build --help
-
-Similarly, for a Guile session using the Guix modules:
-
- ./pre-inst-env guile -c '(use-modules (guix utils)) (pk (%current-system))'
-
-The ‘pre-inst-env’ script sets up all the environment variables
-necessary to support this.
+See the same-named section in the manual.
* The Perfect Setup