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commit feae92498356789d19883424cc078e8e8827626b
Author: John Darrington <j...@gnu.org>
Date: Sun Dec 1 08:28:54 2013 +0100
HACKING: Updated advice about possible errors in ./bootstrap process.
Commit ff1cbb95383b25cf1d6b533c8a046329ee53d1db made errors due to
missing pkg.m4 appear earlier rather than later. This commit updates
the HACKING file to reflect that.
diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
index ef8fb27..4037b10 100644
--- a/HACKING
+++ b/HACKING
@@ -30,9 +30,12 @@ you didn???t run it, you may get the following error:
make: *** No rule to make target `nix/libstore/schema.sql', needed by
`nix/libstore/schema.sql.hh'
-Then, as always, run ???./configure???. If you get an error like this one:
+If you get an error like this one:
+
+configure.ac:46: error: possibly undefined macro: PKG_CHECK_MODULES
+ If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
+ See the Autoconf documentation.
- ./configure: line 6755: `PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GUILE, guile-2.0 >= 2.0.5)'
it probably means that Autoconf couldn???t find ???pkg.m4???, which is provided by
pkg-config. Make sure that ???pkg.m4??? is available. For instance, if you
@@ -43,6 +46,8 @@ installed Automake in ???/usr/local???, it wouldn???t look for ???.m4??? files i
See ???info '(automake) Macro Search Path'??? for more information.
+Then, as always, run `./. configure'.
+
Finally, you have to invoke ???make check??? to run tests. If anything fails,
take a look at ???info '(guix) Installation'??? or send a message to
<guix-devel@gnu.org>.
