From 991f67902fd4be2b63f32274ed35d9f304c1c3f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Florian Pelz Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 08:14:36 +0200 Subject: doc: contributing: Suggest building from Git. * doc/contributing.texi (Requirements): Explain the purpose of this section. Refer regular contributors to Building from Git. Change-Id: I731af4ac8e78b053b96a3b683528964223ab740b --- doc/contributing.texi | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc/contributing.texi') diff --git a/doc/contributing.texi b/doc/contributing.texi index ad0f5a8ecd..cfe8b1289b 100644 --- a/doc/contributing.texi +++ b/doc/contributing.texi @@ -41,6 +41,14 @@ choice. @node Requirements @section Requirements +You can easily hack on Guix itself using Guix and Git, which we use for +version control (@pxref{Building from Git}). + +But when packaging Guix for foreign distros or when bootstrapping on +systems without Guix, and if you decide to not just trust and install +our readily made binary (@pxref{Binary Installation}), you can download +a release version of our reproducible source tarball and read on. + 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} -- cgit v1.2.3