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450e3f01f7957b43367e30767b6c04391f79a774 — Hugo Buddelmeijer 2 months ago f3a64d9
doc: Better explain extra development tools when building from git.

* doc/contributing.texi (Building from Git): Better explain adding tools.

Change-Id: I47fb9e5414edc5eebce64d25db6998cc51985fcb
Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Merges: #4821
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

M doc/contributing.texi
M doc/contributing.texi => doc/contributing.texi +3 -3
@@ 207,11 207,11 @@ installation instructions (@pxref{Requirements}).
@item @url{https://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/, GNU Help2man (optional)}.
@end itemize

On Guix, extra dependencies can be added by instead running @command{guix
shell}:
On Guix, other development tools, like @code{strace}, can be included by
giving them as extra arguments to @command{guix shell}:

@example
guix shell -D guix help2man git strace --pure
guix shell -D guix -CPW strace
@end example

From there you can generate the build system infrastructure