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| author | Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> | 2018-02-20 17:36:56 +0100 |
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| committer | Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> | 2018-02-20 17:36:56 +0100 |
| commit | 7f69459aca16756f35f08049c64a1bd77d23f33e (patch) | |
| tree | 1d267fb62feab89de5d97582672540cbaa37392c /doc/contributing.texi | |
| parent | 4a82722a658220ec1e10f9f2d5d77407d38db90e (diff) | |
| parent | b1989c12501e880afab62d3ff961791906fef350 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'master' into staging
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diff --git a/doc/contributing.texi b/doc/contributing.texi index 01f8aad9fb..d8929fa2e4 100644 --- a/doc/contributing.texi +++ b/doc/contributing.texi @@ -110,10 +110,13 @@ actually installing them. So that you can distinguish between your To that end, all the command-line tools can be used even if you have not run @code{make install}. To do that, prefix each command with @command{./pre-inst-env} (the @file{pre-inst-env} script lives in the -top build tree of Guix), as in: +top build tree of Guix), as in@footnote{The @option{-E} flag to +@command{sudo} guarantees that @code{GUILE_LOAD_PATH} is correctly set +such that @command{guix-daemon} and the tools it uses can find the Guile +modules they need.}: @example -$ sudo ./pre-inst-env guix-daemon --build-users-group=guixbuild +$ sudo -E ./pre-inst-env guix-daemon --build-users-group=guixbuild $ ./pre-inst-env guix build hello @end example |