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authorHugo Buddelmeijer <hugo@buddelmeijer.nl>2025-12-23 12:10:54 +0100
committerRutherther <rutherther@ditigal.xyz>2026-01-15 19:07:34 +0100
commitd08d7c6e5f640ceba4e84ca950fb771b4c5c1117 (patch)
tree50872283be97e5ebfa7f91fd7b5b9303f0e84dfd
parent74d6654633ba8d37ebd1649bddbbc43cda4b81cc (diff)
doc: Better explain extra development tools when building from git.
* doc/contributing.texi (Building from Git): Better explain adding tools. Change-Id: I47fb9e5414edc5eebce64d25db6998cc51985fcb Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> Merges: #4821 Signed-off-by: Rutherther <rutherther@ditigal.xyz>
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@@ -203,11 +203,11 @@ installation instructions (@pxref{Requirements}).
203@item @url{https://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/, GNU Help2man (optional)}. 203@item @url{https://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/, GNU Help2man (optional)}.
204@end itemize 204@end itemize
205 205
206On Guix, extra dependencies can be added by instead running @command{guix 206On Guix, other development tools, like @code{strace}, can be included by
207shell}: 207giving them as extra arguments to @command{guix shell}:
208 208
209@example 209@example
210guix shell -D guix help2man git strace --pure 210guix shell -D guix -CPW strace
211@end example 211@end example
212 212
213From there you can generate the build system infrastructure 213From there you can generate the build system infrastructure