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+;; This is the complete list of Guix packages necessary for building Shepherd.
+;;
+;; For example the following shell command will run the built-in tests:
+;;
+;; % guix shell -m manifest.scm --pure -- make check
+
+(specifications->manifest
+ '("autoconf"
+ "automake"
+ "coreutils"
+ "diffutils"
+ "findutils"
+ "gawk"
+ "gcc-toolchain"
+ "gettext"
+ "grep"
+ "guile"
+ "guile-fibers"
+ "guile-readline"
+ "help2man"
+ "libtool"
+ "make"
+ "pkg-config"
+ "sed"
+ "tar"
+ "texinfo"
+ "xz"))