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