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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2017-04-07 22:26:12 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2017-04-07 23:30:38 +0200
commit5537f2d27925abc05550eff35d13e1347d60dca5 (patch)
treed613626ffff1daee01985d9ce19e9f13fc4a138c /guix/build/profiles.scm
parent83cfa0247b68adf8fc6461792aa7cdc4f0d838ae (diff)
profiles: Slightly improve the instructions in 'etc/profile'.
* guix/build/profiles.scm (build-etc/profile): Fix typo in comment. Add backslash in the generated shell comment.
Diffstat (limited to 'guix/build/profiles.scm')
-rw-r--r--guix/build/profiles.scm6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/guix/build/profiles.scm b/guix/build/profiles.scm
index 42eabfaf19..5c96fe9067 100644
--- a/guix/build/profiles.scm
+++ b/guix/build/profiles.scm
@@ -75,14 +75,14 @@ definitions for all the SEARCH-PATHS."
;; source ~/.guix-profile/etc/profile ~/.guix-profile
;;
;; However, when 'source' is used with no arguments, $1 refers to the
- ;; first positional parameter of the calling scripts, so we can rely on
- ;; it.
+ ;; first positional parameter of the calling script, so we cannot rely
+ ;; on it.
(display "\
# Source this file to define all the relevant environment variables in Bash
# for this profile. You may want to define the 'GUIX_PROFILE' environment
# variable to point to the \"visible\" name of the profile, like this:
#
-# GUIX_PROFILE=/path/to/profile
+# GUIX_PROFILE=/path/to/profile \\
# source /path/to/profile/etc/profile
#
# When GUIX_PROFILE is undefined, the various environment variables refer