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doc: Running Guix Before It Is Installed: mention ./bootstrap

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* doc/contributing.texi (Running Guix Before It Is Installed): Instruct
user to run ./bootstrap before ./configure.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kądziołka <kuba@kadziolka.net>
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@ -166,14 +166,15 @@ actually installing them. So that you can distinguish between your
``end-user'' hat and your ``motley'' costume.
To that end, all the command-line tools can be used even if you have not
run @code{make install}. To do that, you first need to have an environment
with all the dependencies available (@pxref{Building from Git}), and then
simply prefix each command with
@command{./pre-inst-env} (the @file{pre-inst-env} script lives in the
top build tree of Guix; it is generated by @command{./configure}).
As an example, here is how you would build the @code{hello} package as
defined in your working tree (this assumes @command{guix-daemon} is
already running on your system; it's OK if it's a different version):
run @code{make install}. To do that, you first need to have an
environment with all the dependencies available (@pxref{Building from
Git}), and then simply prefix each command with @command{./pre-inst-env}
(the @file{pre-inst-env} script lives in the top build tree of Guix; it
is generated by running @command{./bootstrap} followed by
@command{./configure}). As an example, here is how you would build the
@code{hello} package as defined in your working tree (this assumes
@command{guix-daemon} is already running on your system; it's OK if it's
a different version):
@example
$ ./pre-inst-env guix build hello