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doc: Reorder and clarify contributing instructions.
* doc/contributing.texi (Building from Git, Running Guix Before It Is Installed): Make instructions using Guix come first and clarify which code is an instruction and which is merely an example. Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
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git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
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@end example
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When building Guix from a checkout,
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the following packages are required in addition to those mentioned in
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the installation instructions (@pxref{Requirements}).
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@itemize
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@item @url{http://gnu.org/software/autoconf/, GNU Autoconf};
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@item @url{http://gnu.org/software/automake/, GNU Automake};
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@item @url{http://gnu.org/software/gettext/, GNU Gettext};
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@item @url{http://gnu.org/software/texinfo/, GNU Texinfo};
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@item @url{http://www.graphviz.org/, Graphviz};
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@item @url{http://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/, GNU Help2man (optional)}.
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@end itemize
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The easiest way to set up a development environment for Guix is, of
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course, by using Guix! The following command starts a new shell where
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all the dependencies and appropriate environment variables are set up to
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@end example
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@xref{Invoking guix environment}, for more information on that command.
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Extra dependencies can be added with @option{--ad-hoc}:
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If you are unable to use Guix when building Guix from a checkout, the
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following are the required packages in addition to those mentioned in the
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installation instructions (@pxref{Requirements}).
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@itemize
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@item @url{http://gnu.org/software/autoconf/, GNU Autoconf};
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@item @url{http://gnu.org/software/automake/, GNU Automake};
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@item @url{http://gnu.org/software/gettext/, GNU Gettext};
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@item @url{http://gnu.org/software/texinfo/, GNU Texinfo};
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@item @url{http://www.graphviz.org/, Graphviz};
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@item @url{http://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/, GNU Help2man (optional)}.
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@end itemize
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On Guix, extra dependencies can be added by instead running @command{guix
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environment} with @option{--ad-hoc}:
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@example
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guix environment guix --pure --ad-hoc help2man git strace
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with all the dependencies available (@pxref{Building from Git}), and then
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simply prefix each command with
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@command{./pre-inst-env} (the @file{pre-inst-env} script lives in the
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top build tree of Guix; it is generated by @command{./configure}),
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as in@footnote{The @option{-E} flag to
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top build tree of Guix; it is generated by @command{./configure}).
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An example@footnote{The @option{-E} flag to
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@command{sudo} guarantees that @code{GUILE_LOAD_PATH} is correctly set
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such that @command{guix-daemon} and the tools it uses can find the Guile
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modules they need.}:
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@end example
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@noindent
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Similarly, for a Guile session using the Guix modules:
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Similarly, an example for a Guile session using the Guix modules:
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@example
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$ ./pre-inst-env guile -c '(use-modules (guix utils)) (pk (%current-system))'
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