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| author | Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> | 2020-10-22 22:43:38 -0400 |
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| committer | Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> | 2020-10-22 22:47:54 -0400 |
| commit | 503d2bfde08f9bf97bbf430516d2f19faedd4319 (patch) | |
| tree | 8682a6135edc164d2c8d1cf126c4706736b835c7 | |
| parent | 88d19248b9c03614bfaf9baf3c6b7b880075d35c (diff) | |
README: Refer to the manual for building from Git.
* README (Installing Guix from Guix): Remove section.
(Installation): For installing from Git, refer to the "Building from Git"
section of the manual and suggest using './pre-inst-env guix pull' rather than
'make install' for installing Guix.
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 20 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 14 deletions
| @@ -34,24 +34,16 @@ See the manual for the installation instructions, either by running | |||
| 34 | or by checking the [[https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Installation.html][web copy of the manual]]. | 34 | or by checking the [[https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Installation.html][web copy of the manual]]. |
| 35 | 35 | ||
| 36 | For information on installation from a Git checkout, please see the section | 36 | For information on installation from a Git checkout, please see the section |
| 37 | "Building from Git" in the manual. | 37 | "Building from Git" in the manual, either by running |
| 38 | 38 | ||
| 39 | * Installing Guix from Guix | 39 | info -f doc/guix.info "Building from Git" |
| 40 | 40 | ||
| 41 | You can re-build and re-install Guix using a system that already runs Guix. | 41 | or by checking the [[https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Running-Guix-Before-It-Is-Installed.html][web |
| 42 | To do so: | 42 | copy of the manual]]. |
| 43 | 43 | ||
| 44 | - Start a shell with the development environment for Guix: | 44 | Following building Guix from Git, it can be installed by using: |
| 45 | 45 | ||
| 46 | guix environment guix | 46 | ./pre-inst-env guix pull |
| 47 | |||
| 48 | - Re-run the 'configure' script passing it the option | ||
| 49 | '--localstatedir=/somewhere', where '/somewhere' is the 'localstatedir' | ||
| 50 | value of the currently installed Guix (failing to do that would lead the | ||
| 51 | new Guix to consider the store to be empty!). We recommend to use the | ||
| 52 | value '/var'. | ||
| 53 | |||
| 54 | - Run "make", "make check", and "make install". | ||
| 55 | 47 | ||
| 56 | * How It Works | 48 | * How It Works |
| 57 | 49 | ||
