> I’d say no, because that could lead “normal users” to think they need > Automake & co. to install Guix.
OK, can I push this one?
From cb6750a9869fc162d98eeb38ccb78e0846553f64 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nikita Karetnikov <nik...@karetnikov.org> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 06:13:59 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] doc: Add "Building from Git" to 'HACKING'. --- HACKING | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+) diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING index 9d8960c..8f6e835 100644 --- a/HACKING +++ b/HACKING @@ -3,12 +3,42 @@ #+TITLE: Hacking GNU Guix and Its Incredible Distro Copyright © 2012, 2013 Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> +Copyright © 2013 Nikita Karetnikov <nik...@karetnikov.org> Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved. +* Building from Git + +The following errors might appear if you are building from Git. Also, +take a look at the [[https://gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Installation]["Installation";]] section of the manual and the +[[http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/README]["Installing Guix from Guix"]] section in 'README'. + +** ./configure: line 6755: `PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GUILE, guile-2.0 >= 2.0.5)' + +This message means that Autoconf didn't pick up the definition of the +'PKG_CHECK_MODULES' M4 macro. 'pkg.m4' is provided by the 'pkg-config' +package. If you install 'pkg-config', Autoconf should automatically find it. + +However, if you installed Automake in '/usr/local', it wouldn't look for '.m4' +files in '/usr/share'. You have to invoke the following command in that case: + + $ export ACLOCAL_PATH=/usr/share/aclocal + +** make: *** No rule to make target `nix/libstore/schema.sql', needed by +`nix/libstore/schema.sql.hh'. + +You must run './bootstrap', which invokes 'git submodule update', before +'./configure && make && make check'. + +** /bin/bash: dot: command not found +make[2]: *** [doc/images/bootstrap-graph.png] Error 127 + +You must install Graphviz. (It is not listed as a requirement because the +resulting images will be shipped with a tarball.) + * Running Guix before it is installed Command-line tools can be used even if you have not run "make install". -- 1.7.9.5
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