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authorLeo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>2021-04-04 13:28:46 -0400
committerLeo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>2021-04-04 13:34:30 -0400
commit5b97804e8714cfaeabf12b7c0e8530737907965f (patch)
tree5d49dfc3b9431c693e50755dfe2cd81297833701
parentb5d7ea6f37186905931374a7cbbca23af6e8eec8 (diff)
doc: Remind developers to build Guix.
The previous instructions were correct, but we got too many bug reports with a root cause of "did not build Guix yet". Other parts of the manual already instruct `make && make check`, so this makes the treatment of building Guix more consistent, too. * doc/contributing.texi (Building from Git): Instruct the user to run `make` when building Guix.
-rw-r--r--doc/contributing.texi8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/contributing.texi b/doc/contributing.texi
index 1cf345a3de..9a09de93e6 100644
--- a/doc/contributing.texi
+++ b/doc/contributing.texi
@@ -126,10 +126,10 @@ 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 check} to run tests
-(@pxref{Running the Test Suite}). If anything
-fails, take a look at installation instructions (@pxref{Installation})
-or send a message to the @email{guix-devel@@gnu.org, mailing list}.
+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
+a look at installation instructions (@pxref{Installation}) or send a
+message to the @email{guix-devel@@gnu.org, mailing list}.
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