README: Refer to the manual for building from Git.

* README (Installing Guix from Guix): Remove section.
(Installation): For installing from Git, refer to the "Building from Git"
section of the manual and suggest using './pre-inst-env guix pull' rather than
'make install' for installing Guix.
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@ -34,24 +34,16 @@ See the manual for the installation instructions, either by running
or by checking the [[https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Installation.html][web copy of the manual]].
For information on installation from a Git checkout, please see the section
"Building from Git" in the manual.
"Building from Git" in the manual, either by running
* Installing Guix from Guix
info -f doc/guix.info "Building from Git"
You can re-build and re-install Guix using a system that already runs Guix.
To do so:
or by checking the [[https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Running-Guix-Before-It-Is-Installed.html][web
copy of the manual]].
- Start a shell with the development environment for Guix:
Following building Guix from Git, it can be installed by using:
guix environment guix
- Re-run the 'configure' script passing it the option
'--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!). We recommend to use the
value '/var'.
- Run "make", "make check", and "make install".
./pre-inst-env guix pull
* How It Works