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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 2af0c88133..663c73fc38 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ @c %**start of header @setfilename guix.info @documentencoding UTF-8 +@documentlanguage en @settitle GNU Guix Reference Manual @c %**end of header @@ -138,6 +139,10 @@ The remainder of this manual describes them. This section describes the software requirements of Guix, as well as how to install it and get ready to use it. +The build procedure for Guix is the same as for other GNU software, and +are not covered here. Please see the files @file{README} and +@file{INSTALL} in the Guix source tree for additional details. + @menu * Requirements:: Software needed to build and run Guix. * Setting Up the Daemon:: Preparing the build daemon's environment. @@ -167,6 +172,16 @@ When a working installation of the Nix package manager is available, you can instead configure Guix with @code{--disable-daemon}. In that case, @url{http://nixos.org/nix/, Nix} replaces the three dependencies above. +Guix is compatible with Nix, so it is possible to share the same store +between both. To do so, you must pass @command{configure} not only the +same @code{--with-store-dir} value, but also the same +@code{--localstatedir} value (the latter is essential because it +specifies where the database that store meta-data about the store is +located, among other things.) The default values are +@code{--with-store-dir=/nix/store} and @code{--localstatedir=/nix/var}. +Note that @code{--disable-daemon} is orthogonal and is not required if +your goal is to share the same store as Nix. + @node Setting Up the Daemon @section Setting Up the Daemon @@ -595,6 +610,11 @@ example, the package definition, or @dfn{recipe}, for the GNU Hello package looks like this: @example +(use-modules (guix packages) + (guix download) + (guix build-system gnu) + (guix licenses)) + (define hello (package (name "hello") @@ -610,7 +630,7 @@ package looks like this: (synopsis "GNU Hello") (description "Yeah...") (home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/") - (license "GPLv3+"))) + (license gpl3+))) @end example @noindent |