Re: FAQ

[Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org>]

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> It’s a good idea, probably as the first section in ‘HACKING’.  Would you
> like to propose a patch?

Attached.  Did I forget to mention anything?


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From 17a11ca78a4f71174edf57ec01f55934b1761363 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org>
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 18:47:17 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] doc: Add FAQ to 'HACKING'.

---
 HACKING |   20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)

diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
index dd59a68..89ea124 100644
--- a/HACKING
+++ b/HACKING
@@ -3,12 +3,32 @@
 #+TITLE: Hacking GNU Guix and Its Incredible Distro
 
 Copyright © 2012, 2013 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
+Copyright © 2013 Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org>
 
   Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
   are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
   notice and this notice are preserved.
 
 
+* FAQ
+
+** ./configure: line 6755: `PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GUILE, guile-2.0 >= 2.0.5)'
+
+This message means that Autoconf didn't pick up the definition of the
+'PKG_CHECK_MODULES' M4 macro.  'pkg.m4' is provided by the 'pkg-config'
+package.  If you install 'pkg-config', Autoconf should automatically find it.
+
+However, if you installed Automake in '/usr/local', it wouldn't look for '.m4'
+files in '/usr/share'.  You have to invoke the following command in that case:
+
+  $ export ACLOCAL_PATH=/usr/share/aclocal
+
+** make: *** No rule to make target `nix/libstore/schema.sql', needed by
+`nix/libstore/schema.sql.hh'.
+
+You must run './bootstrap', which just invokes 'git submodule update', before
+'./configure && make && make check'.
+
 * Running Guix before it is installed
 
 Command-line tools can be used even if you have not run "make install".
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