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* README (Hacking): Mention `--with-nixpkgs'. List the autotools and Gettext, as suggested by Nikita Karetnikov <nikita.karetnikov@gmail.com>.
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- [[http://gnupg.org/][GNU libgcrypt]], or [[http://nongnu.org/libchop/][libchop]]
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For bootstrapping purposes, it is useful to reuse packages from Nixpkgs.
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For this to work, you need to have a checkout of the Nixpkgs repository,
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with the `NIXPKGS' environment variable pointing to it.
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For this to work, you need to have a checkout of the Nixpkgs repository;
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the `--with-nixpkgs' option allows you to let `configure' know where the
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Nixpkgs checkout is.
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- [[http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/][Nixpkgs]]
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When building Guix from a checkout, the following packages are also
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required:
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- [[http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/][GNU Autoconf]]
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- [[http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/][GNU Automake]]
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- [[http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/][GNU Gettext]]
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The "autoreconf -vi" command can be used to generate the build system
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infrastructure; it reports an error if an inappropriate version of the
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above packages is being used.
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* How It Works
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Guix does the high-level preparation of a /derivation/. A derivation is
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