From e03345616cd4325cec928d6a6c5f35cbc47eb330 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Thompson Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 08:06:21 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] HACKING: Mention 'guix environment'. --- HACKING | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING index 0231c7d..ad816aa 100644 --- a/HACKING +++ b/HACKING @@ -21,6 +21,12 @@ addition to those mentioned in the installation instructions: - [[http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/][GNU Gettext]] - [[http://www.graphviz.org/][Graphviz]] +If you are building Guix on a system that already runs Guix, you can use 'guix +environment' to spawn a shell whose environment contains all of the necessary +packages without installing them to your user profile: + + guix environment guix + 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. -- 2.1.2