@@ 52,19 52,23 @@ To do so:
- Install the dependencies (see 'Requirements' above) and build tools using
Guix:
- guix package --install={autoconf,automake,bzip2,gcc-toolchain,gettext,guile,libgcrypt,pkg-config,sqlite}
+ guix package --install autoconf automake bzip2 gcc-toolchain gettext \
+ guile libgcrypt pkg-config sqlite
- - set the environment variables that Guix recommends you to set during the
+ - Set the environment variables that Guix recommends you to set during the
package installation process:
ACLOCAL_PATH, CPATH, LIBRARY_PATH, PKG_CONFIG_PATH
- - set the PATH environment variable to refer to the profile:
+ - Set the PATH environment variable to refer to the profile:
PATH=$HOME/.guix-profile/bin:$PATH
- - re-run the configure script passing it the option
- `--with-libgcrypt-prefix=$HOME/.guix-profile/'
+ - Re-run the 'configure' script passing it the option
+ '--with-libgcrypt-prefix=$HOME/.guix-profile/', as well as
+ '--localstatedir=/somewhere', where '/somewhere' is the 'localstatedir'
+ value of the currently installed Guix (failing to do that would lead the
+ new Guix to consider the store to be empty!).
- - run "make" and "make install"
+ - Run "make", "make check", and "make install".
* How It Works