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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2013-04-25 23:01:05 +0200 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2013-04-25 23:01:05 +0200 |
| commit | 43d8f4904c8dbd4d28017ce63b929ebb27a897d6 (patch) | |
| tree | 163588d839ebf8667c7ea7fb2338ce2deaa48ef0 | |
| parent | 37a5340262fd916b2c7b8d175282987a6d4449bb (diff) | |
doc: Add note on installing Guix from Guix.
* README (Installing Guix from Guix): New section.
Suggested by Alex Sassmannshausen <alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com>.
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| @@ -51,6 +51,16 @@ The "autoreconf -vi" command can be used to generate the build system | |||
| 51 | infrastructure; it reports an error if an inappropriate version of the | 51 | infrastructure; it reports an error if an inappropriate version of the |
| 52 | above packages is being used. | 52 | above packages is being used. |
| 53 | 53 | ||
| 54 | * Installing Guix from Guix | ||
| 55 | |||
| 56 | You can re-build and re-install Guix using a system that already runs Guix. | ||
| 57 | To do so: | ||
| 58 | |||
| 59 | - install the dependencies (see 'Requirements' above) using Guix | ||
| 60 | - re-run the configure script passing it the option | ||
| 61 | `--with-libgcrypt-prefix=$HOME/.guix-profile/' | ||
| 62 | - run "make" and "make install" | ||
| 63 | |||
| 54 | * How It Works | 64 | * How It Works |
| 55 | 65 | ||
| 56 | Guix does the high-level preparation of a /derivation/. A derivation is | 66 | Guix does the high-level preparation of a /derivation/. A derivation is |