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fa67d6eef67092aff355d769a38d8bb46b4b8c48 — Rostislav Svoboda 4 years ago cb768f3
doc: Improve wording for param spec of `./configure`.

* doc/contributing.texi (Running Guix Before It Is Installed): Writing "Do
<this>. But it won't work unless ..." is a bad practice.

Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

M doc/contributing.texi
M doc/contributing.texi => doc/contributing.texi +6 -6
@@ 120,12 120,12 @@ export ACLOCAL_PATH=/usr/share/aclocal
@xref{Macro Search Path,,, automake, The GNU Automake Manual}, for
more information.

Then, run @command{./configure} as usual.  Make sure to pass
@code{--localstatedir=@var{directory}} where @var{directory} is the
@code{localstatedir} value used by your current installation (@pxref{The
Store}, for information about this), usually @file{/var}.  Note that you
will probably not run @command{make install} at the end (you don't have
to) but it's still important to pass the right @code{localstatedir}.
Then, run @command{./configure --localstatedir=@var{directory}}, where
@var{directory} is the @code{localstatedir} value used by your current
installation (@pxref{The Store}, for information about this), usually
@file{/var}.  Note that you will probably not run @command{make install}
at the end (you don't have to) but it's still important to pass the
right @code{localstatedir}.

Finally, you have to invoke @code{make && make check} to build Guix and
run the tests (@pxref{Running the Test Suite}).  If anything fails, take