jgart <jg...@dismail.de> writes:
> Hi, > > This is what I do to work on GNU Guix on a foreign distro: > > git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git > > cd guix > guix shell -D guix --container -- ./bootstrap > guix shell -D guix --container -- ./configure --localstatedir=/var > guix shell -D guix --container -- make > guix shell --container --network coreutils vis ripgrep rlwrap -D guix > --share=/var/guix/ > > Should I be doing anything differently in the above for setting up a dev > environment for guix hacking? You probably want to invoke ./configure like so: ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc/ --localstatedir=/var/ Otherwise if you reconfigure the system from the local checkout you will run into some "fun" behaviour.
