04/07: doc: Cross-reference virtual build machines from ‘guix time-machine’.

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commit b0a37d8b1ab6762ede3c807bbb05004ba606c684
Author: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
AuthorDate: Fri Mar 29 22:40:52 2024 +0100

    doc: Cross-reference virtual build machines from ‘guix time-machine’.
    
    * doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix time-machine): Tweak the note about
    packages that may fail to build.  Add cross-reference to virtual build
    machines.
    
    Change-Id: Ib2a4a28cdca0c8970d0f5327e39b4a21800ea2e1
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 doc/guix.texi | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index e8db900d1f..6a3b85d54a 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -5029,10 +5029,10 @@ Although it should technically be possible to travel to 
such an old
 commit, the ease to do so will largely depend on the availability of
 binary substitutes.  When traveling to a distant past, some packages may
 not easily build from source anymore.  One such example are old versions
-of Python 2 which had time bombs in its test suite, in the form of
-expiring SSL certificates.  This particular problem can be worked around
-by setting the hardware clock to a value in the past before attempting
-the build.
+of OpenSSL whose tests would fail after a certain date.  This particular
+problem can be worked around by running a @dfn{virtual build machine}
+with its clock set to the right time (@pxref{build-vm, Virtual Build
+Machines}).
 @end quotation
 
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