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03/06: doc: Developers don't need to run "make install" in Guix.
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03/06: doc: Developers don't need to run "make install" in Guix. |
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Thu, 8 Oct 2020 06:27:24 -0400 (EDT) |
civodul pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guix.
commit 6f406e5d15ce477664dbf5c443c0db59ea3a06ec
Author: Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes@inria.fr>
AuthorDate: Thu Oct 8 09:42:54 2020 +0200
doc: Developers don't need to run "make install" in Guix.
Suggested by Emmanuel Agullo.
* doc/contributing.texi (Building from Git): Mention that running "make
install" is unnecessary.
---
doc/contributing.texi | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/contributing.texi b/doc/contributing.texi
index 535cfc2..c6b0ca5 100644
--- a/doc/contributing.texi
+++ b/doc/contributing.texi
@@ -121,8 +121,9 @@ more information.
Then, run @command{./configure} as usual. Make sure to pass
@code{--localstatedir=@var{directory}} where @var{directory} is the
@code{localstatedir} value used by your current installation (@pxref{The
-Store}, for information about this). We recommend to use the value
-@code{/var}.
+Store}, for information about this), usually @file{/var}. Note that you
+will probably not run @command{make install} at the end (you don't have
+to) but it's still important to pass the right @code{localstatedir}.
Finally, you have to invoke @code{make check} to run tests
(@pxref{Running the Test Suite}). If anything
- branch master updated (31113b6 -> 44e65a7), guix-commits, 2020/10/08
- 01/06: gnu: gmsh: Update to 4.6.0., guix-commits, 2020/10/08
- 02/06: doc: Improve choice of options in service examples., guix-commits, 2020/10/08
- 05/06: system: Include 'guile-3.0-latest' in '%base-packages'., guix-commits, 2020/10/08
- 04/06: doc: Clarify that guix-daemon doesn't have to be launched from the checkout., guix-commits, 2020/10/08
- 03/06: doc: Developers don't need to run "make install" in Guix.,
guix-commits <=
- 06/06: hurd-boot: Create /servers/crash., guix-commits, 2020/10/08