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doc: Improve build instructions in README and HACKING. 

* README (Requirements): Remove Nixpkgs.  Remove mentions of building
  from Git.
  (Installation): Refer to the manual.
* HACKING: List requirements for when building from Git.
  Remove the `dot: Command not found' error.
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@ -12,14 +12,25 @@ Copyright © 2013 Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org>
* Building from Git
First, make sure that Autoconf (>= 2.69), Automake, and pkg-config are
installed. Run ‘./bootstrap’ that, among other things, invokes ‘git submodule
update’, or you might get the following error
When building Guix from a checkout, the following packages are required in
addition to those mentioned in the installation instructions:
- [[http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/][GNU Autoconf]]
- [[http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/][GNU Automake]]
- [[http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/][GNU Gettext]]
- [[http://www.graphviz.org/][Graphviz]]
Run ‘./bootstrap’ to download the Nix daemon source code and to generate the
build system infrastructure using autoconf. It reports an error if an
inappropriate version of the above packages is being used.
The ‘bootstrap’ script, among other things, invokes ‘git submodule update’; if
you didn’t run it, you may get the following error:
make: *** No rule to make target `nix/libstore/schema.sql', needed by
`nix/libstore/schema.sql.hh'
Then, as always, run ‘./configure’. If you get an error like this one
Then, as always, run ‘./configure’. If you get an error like this one:
./configure: line 6755: `PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GUILE, guile-2.0 >= 2.0.5)'
@ -32,17 +43,9 @@ installed Automake in ‘/usr/local’, it wouldn’t look for ‘.m4’ files i
See “info '(automake) Macro Search Path'” for more information.
After that you should proceed with ‘make’. You might also get this error
/bin/bash: dot: command not found
make[2]: *** [doc/images/bootstrap-graph.png] Error 127
This one is easy to handle; just install Graphviz. It is not listed as a
requirement because the resulting images should come with a tarball.
Finally, you have to invoke ‘make check’ to run tests. If anything fails,
take a look at “info '(guix) Installation'” or send a message to
<bug-guix@gnu.org>.
<guix-devel@gnu.org>.
* Running Guix before it is installed

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@ -33,23 +33,16 @@ When `--disable-daemon' was passed, you instead need the following:
- [[http://nixos.org/nix/][Nix]]
Optionally, packages from Nixpkgs may be transparently reused from Guix.
For this to work, you need to have a checkout of the Nixpkgs repository;
the `--with-nixpkgs' option allows you to let `configure' know where the
Nixpkgs checkout is.
* Installation
- [[http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/][Nixpkgs]]
See the manual for the installation instructions, either by running
When building Guix from a checkout, the following packages are also
required:
info -f doc/guix.info "(guix) Installation"
- [[http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/][GNU Autoconf]]
- [[http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/][GNU Automake]]
- [[http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/][GNU Gettext]]
or by checking the [[http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Installation][web copy of the manual]].
Run the "bootstrap" script to download the Nix daemon and to generate the
build system infrastructure using autoconf. It reports an error if an
inappropriate version of the above packages is being used.
For information on installation from a Git checkout, please see the ‘HACKING’
file.
* Installing Guix from Guix