I've added a few lines to the contributing section of the manual. It
says that users actually have to clone the guix repo before running guix
environment guix. I actually made the mistake a week or two ago.
#+BEGIN_SRC sh
guix environment guix
./bootstrap
#+END_SRC
When nothing happened I was really confused. When I asked about it on
#guix, I was told that I actually have to have the repo first.
Hopefully this patch will make that a bit clearer.
P.S. Maybe I'm overthinking this, and I just made a rookie mistake.
P.P.S. I also hope I'm sending this to the right mailing list.
>From 3a49e32fc30480c36ea69add42cd7e2e94669a93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joshua Branson <bran...@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2017 13:06:05 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] * I updated the contributing section to include cloning the
guix repo.
---
doc/contributing.texi | 11 ++++++++---
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/contributing.texi b/doc/contributing.texi
index 0073f2451..089d81efc 100644
--- a/doc/contributing.texi
+++ b/doc/contributing.texi
@@ -45,9 +45,14 @@ the installation instructions (@pxref{Requirements}).
@end itemize
The easiest way to set up a development environment for Guix is, of
-course, by using Guix! The following command starts a new shell where
-all the dependencies and appropriate environment variables are set up to
-hack on Guix:
+course, by using Guix! First, clone the guix repository.
+
+@example
+git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
+@end example
+
+The following command starts a new shell where all the dependencies and
+appropriate environment variables are set up to hack on Guix:
@example
guix environment guix
--
2.13.2
--
Joshua Branson
Purdue Honors College
Web Developer
Sent From Emacs and Gnus
