@@ -157,6 +157,18 @@ You are advised to run @command{make authenticate} after every
changes to the repository.
@end quotation
+After updating the repository, @command{make} might fail with an error
+similar to the following example:
+
+@example
+error: failed to load 'gnu/packages/dunst.scm':
+ice-9/eval.scm:293:34: In procedure abi-check: #<record-type <origin>>: record ABI mismatch; recompilation needed
+@end example
+
+This means that one of the record types that Guix defines (in this
+example, the @code{origin} record) has changed, and all of guix needs
+to be recompiled to take that change into account. To do so, run
+@command{make clean-go} followed by @command{make}.
@node Running Guix Before It Is Installed
@section Running Guix Before It Is Installed
From: Guix Together <jgart@dismail.de> Hi all, Here is version 2 with your requested changes. Let me know if there is anything else I might have missed. Thank you for the review. all best, jgart * doc/contributing.texi (Building from Git): Adds section on using make clean-go. Co-authored-by: jgart <jgart@dismail.de> Co-authored-by: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> Co-authored-by: Ryan Prior <rprior@protonmail.com> Co-authored-by: Blake Shaw <blake@nonconstructivism.com> --- doc/contributing.texi | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)