X-Git-Url: http://git.hcoop.net/jackhill/guix/guix.git/blobdiff_plain/c75a80189fc19f6ff8b4c82d1d1801be6763b6d2..b8424f0cddd6be29a51b778790dd5a4ca10007c4:/README

diff --git a/README b/README
index 5e9069f80f..b9f36f8344 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -33,25 +33,14 @@ 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
 
-* Installing Guix from Guix
+For information on building Guix from a Git checkout, please see the relevant
+section in the manual, either by running
 
-You can re-build and re-install Guix using a system that already runs Guix.
-To do so:
+  info -f doc/guix.info "Building from Git"
 
-  - Start a shell with the development environment for Guix:
-
-      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".
+or by checking the [[https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Building-from-Git.html][web_copy of the manual]].
 
 * How It Works
 
@@ -73,7 +62,7 @@ Please email <help-guix@gnu.org> for questions and <bug-guix@gnu.org> for bug
 reports; email <gnu-system-discuss@gnu.org> for general issues regarding the
 GNU system.
 
-Join #guix on irc.freenode.net.
+Join #guix on irc.libera.chat.
 
 * Guix & Nix