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#+TITLE: Hacking GNU Guix and Its Incredible Distro
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Copyright © 2012, 2013 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
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Copyright © 2013 Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org>
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Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
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are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
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notice and this notice are preserved.
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* Building from Git
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First, make sure that Autoconf (>= 2.69), Automake, and pkg-config are
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installed. Run ‘./bootstrap’ that, among other things, invokes ‘git submodule
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update’, or you might get the following error
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make: *** No rule to make target `nix/libstore/schema.sql', needed by
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`nix/libstore/schema.sql.hh'
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Then, as always, run ‘./configure’. If you get an error like this one
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./configure: line 6755: `PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GUILE, guile-2.0 >= 2.0.5)'
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it probably means that Autoconf couldn’t find ‘pkg.m4’, which is provided by
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pkg-config. Make sure that ‘pkg.m4’ is available. For instance, if you
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installed Automake in ‘/usr/local’, it wouldn’t look for ‘.m4’ files in
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‘/usr/share’. So you have to invoke the following command in that case
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$ export ACLOCAL_PATH=/usr/share/aclocal
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See “info '(automake) Macro Search Path'” for more information.
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After that you should proceed with ‘make’. You might also get this error
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/bin/bash: dot: command not found
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make[2]: *** [doc/images/bootstrap-graph.png] Error 127
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This one is easy to handle; just install Graphviz. It is not listed as a
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requirement because the resulting images should come with a tarball.
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Finally, you have to invoke ‘make check’ to run tests. If anything fails,
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take a look at “info '(guix) Installation'” or send a message to
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<bug-guix@gnu.org>.
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* Running Guix before it is installed
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Command-line tools can be used even if you have not run "make install".
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