Re: Compile guix from git?

[Ludovic Courtès]

"Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)" <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Mathieu Lirzin <address@hidden> wrote:
>> "Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)" <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> How do people compile guix directly from git source? I've been
>>> searching around in HACKING and manual.html#Contributing and other
>>> places, the internet in general, and haven't been able to find any
>>> instructions.
>>
>> Documentation has been moved from the 'HACKING' file to the manual in
>> section "Contributing" recently.  As a consequence, the web manual lacks
>> some informations since it refers to the current release.
>
> Oh, ok.

The best way to access the latest version of the manual from a checkout
is:

  make doc/guix.info
  info -f doc/guix.info

Or you can use Emacs’s Info reader, or you can also generate HTML or
PDF:

  make doc/guix.pdf
  make doc/guix.html

Ludo’.