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| author | Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> | 2018-01-19 23:59:20 -0500 |
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| committer | Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> | 2018-01-19 23:59:20 -0500 |
| commit | e074a655dd6497daafbd62737e3b63f3d5aa7985 (patch) | |
| tree | 2b198ba5c664cdd58e155f3c0113d1cebde0fc91 /doc/contributing.texi | |
| parent | 6d7b26a39faf42c37f15dc64a30a77e5e194ea23 (diff) | |
| parent | ccb5cac17be98aaa9c3225605d6170c675d8e8e6 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' into core-updates
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/contributing.texi | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/contributing.texi b/doc/contributing.texi index 01f8aad9fb..d8929fa2e4 100644 --- a/doc/contributing.texi +++ b/doc/contributing.texi @@ -110,10 +110,13 @@ actually installing them. So that you can distinguish between your To that end, all the command-line tools can be used even if you have not run @code{make install}. To do that, prefix each command with @command{./pre-inst-env} (the @file{pre-inst-env} script lives in the -top build tree of Guix), as in: +top build tree of Guix), as in@footnote{The @option{-E} flag to +@command{sudo} guarantees that @code{GUILE_LOAD_PATH} is correctly set +such that @command{guix-daemon} and the tools it uses can find the Guile +modules they need.}: @example -$ sudo ./pre-inst-env guix-daemon --build-users-group=guixbuild +$ sudo -E ./pre-inst-env guix-daemon --build-users-group=guixbuild $ ./pre-inst-env guix build hello @end example |