doc: Improve build instructions in README and HACKING.

* README (Requirements): Remove Nixpkgs.  Remove mentions of building
  from Git.
  (Installation): Refer to the manual.
* HACKING: List requirements for when building from Git.
  Remove the `dot: Command not found' error.

diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
index 417d279..9ec3c04 100644 (file)
--- a/HACKING
+++ b/HACKING
@@ -12,14 +12,25 @@ Copyright © 2013 Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org>
 
 * Building from Git
 
-First, make sure that Autoconf (>= 2.69), Automake, and pkg-config are
-installed.  Run ‘./bootstrap’ that, among other things, invokes ‘git submodule
-update’, or you might get the following error
+When building Guix from a checkout, the following packages are required in
+addition to those mentioned in the installation instructions:
+
+  - [[http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/][GNU Autoconf]]
+  - [[http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/][GNU Automake]]
+  - [[http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/][GNU Gettext]]
+  - [[http://www.graphviz.org/][Graphviz]]
+
+Run ‘./bootstrap’ to download the Nix daemon source code and to generate the
+build system infrastructure using autoconf.  It reports an error if an
+inappropriate version of the above packages is being used.
+
+The ‘bootstrap’ script, among other things, invokes ‘git submodule update’; if
+you didn’t run it, you may get the following error:
 
   make: *** No rule to make target `nix/libstore/schema.sql', needed by
   `nix/libstore/schema.sql.hh'
 
-Then, as always, run ‘./configure’.  If you get an error like this one
+Then, as always, run ‘./configure’.  If you get an error like this one:
 
   ./configure: line 6755: `PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GUILE, guile-2.0 >= 2.0.5)'
 
@@ -32,17 +43,9 @@ installed Automake in ‘/usr/local’, it wouldn’t look for ‘.m4’ files i
 
 See “info '(automake) Macro Search Path'” for more information.
 
-After that you should proceed with ‘make’.  You might also get this error
-
-  /bin/bash: dot: command not found
-  make[2]: *** [doc/images/bootstrap-graph.png] Error 127
-
-This one is easy to handle; just install Graphviz.  It is not listed as a
-requirement because the resulting images should come with a tarball.
-
 Finally, you have to invoke ‘make check’ to run tests.  If anything fails,
 take a look at “info '(guix) Installation'” or send a message to
-<bug-guix@gnu.org>.
+<guix-devel@gnu.org>.
 
 * Running Guix before it is installed
 

diff --git a/README b/README
index dde4029..33d5b68 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -33,23 +33,16 @@ When `--disable-daemon' was passed, you instead need the following:
 
   - [[http://nixos.org/nix/][Nix]]
 
-Optionally, packages from Nixpkgs may be transparently reused from Guix.
-For this to work, you need to have a checkout of the Nixpkgs repository;
-the `--with-nixpkgs' option allows you to let `configure' know where the
-Nixpkgs checkout is.
+* Installation
 
-  - [[http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/][Nixpkgs]]
+See the manual for the installation instructions, either by running
 
-When building Guix from a checkout, the following packages are also
-required:
+  info -f doc/guix.info "(guix) Installation"
 
-  - [[http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/][GNU Autoconf]]
-  - [[http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/][GNU Automake]]
-  - [[http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/][GNU Gettext]]
+or by checking the [[http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Installation][web copy of the manual]].
 
-Run the "bootstrap" script to download the Nix daemon and to generate the
-build system infrastructure using autoconf. It reports an error if an
-inappropriate version of the above packages is being used.
+For information on installation from a Git checkout, please see the ‘HACKING’
+file.
 
 * Installing Guix from Guix