* 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)'
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
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