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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2021-11-23 11:22:30 +0100 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2021-11-23 11:29:38 +0100 |
| commit | b15e543d303ea58fdc0f0541c708389f9d513e3d (patch) | |
| tree | 5c4bd48d67d4d3cd4806269dcabf58382f448bed /doc/contributing.texi | |
| parent | 4efc08d895274ee39e6e6e5c49121fb05a0281b6 (diff) | |
| parent | daf7b5ecef8de0e536ffd8d2957f022d010767a8 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'master' into core-updates-frozen
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diff --git a/doc/contributing.texi b/doc/contributing.texi index db0f836157..aa6bfc2e65 100644 --- a/doc/contributing.texi +++ b/doc/contributing.texi @@ -120,12 +120,12 @@ export ACLOCAL_PATH=/usr/share/aclocal @xref{Macro Search Path,,, automake, The GNU Automake Manual}, for 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), 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}. +Then, run @command{./configure --localstatedir=@var{directory}}, where +@var{directory} is the @code{localstatedir} value used by your current +installation (@pxref{The 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 && make check} to build Guix and run the tests (@pxref{Running the Test Suite}). If anything fails, take |