Nikita Karetnikov <nik...@karetnikov.org> skribis:
> +* 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'.
Sorry if I wasn’t clear. What I meant is: instead of presenting it as a
trial-and-error approach, I would rather present it as a sequence of
instructions to build from Git.
Something like:
First, make sure Autoconf (>= 2.69), Automake, pkg-config, etc. are
installed. If you get an error like this:
./configure: line 6755: `PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GUILE, guile-2.0 >= 2.0.5)'
then it probably means that pkg-config’s pkg.m4 file was not found by
Automake. Make sure pkg.m4 is available, and possibly add its
directory to the ACLOCAL_PATH environment variable (info "(automake)
Macro Search Path").
Second, run ./bootstrap. Among other things, this will run ‘git
submodule update’. If you get an error like this:
...
Also, when referring to a GNU manual, please show the info command (as I
did above) rather than giving a hyperlink. This will ensure that users
read the right version of the manual.
For the link to README, just use [[./README][README]] (info "(org)
Hyperlinks").
It may look like I’m being picky, and indeed that’s what I am ;-), but I
think it’s important to agree on how to present information.
Thanks for your help!
Ludo’.
