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authorzimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>2019-11-06 19:35:54 +0100
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2019-11-09 23:04:14 +0100
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doc: Mention value /var to localstatedir option.
* README (Installing Guix from Guix): Mention value /var to localstatedir option. * doc/contributing.texi (Building from Git): Likewise. * doc/guix.texi (Requirements): Likewise. Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
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@@ -63,7 +63,8 @@ To do so:
- 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!).
+ new Guix to consider the store to be empty!). We recommend to use the
+ value '/var'.
- Run "make", "make check", and "make install".