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| author | Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> | 2017-08-06 00:23:20 -0400 |
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| committer | Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> | 2017-08-06 00:23:20 -0400 |
| commit | f167595ba1a4e0e419adc17de6af275bedf32822 (patch) | |
| tree | 6a582fbda8ad9d72962359add99e5ae219dd030d /doc/contributing.texi | |
| parent | e3df6938acc2ba2d2f7333d911b8bdc3697f0f75 (diff) | |
| parent | 01a61d7040b1794f36547b107abce6e967d59f21 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'master' into core-updates
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diff --git a/doc/contributing.texi b/doc/contributing.texi index 00edd47710..98971a9bbc 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 |