Re: How to test changes to guix locally? (Was: Re: Trying to fix an error in the pypi-importer)

[Ricardo Wurmus]

address@hidden writes:

> How do I best go about testing my changes to the build-system? make & 
> ./pre-inst-env guix ...? Somebody mentioned input but I did not 
> understand that.

Yes, “./pre-inst-env” allows you to use the guix library in the current
directory.

Note that when you change a build system all packages that use this
build system would be rebuilt.  Changing the importer has no such
effect.

~~ Ricardo