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[bug#67366] doc: Recommend building in ‘guix shell -CPW’.

Message ID 2d49ea4ddadceb4a3017f1a6032fb2858616cdee.1700654648.git.ludo@gnu.org
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Series [bug#67366] doc: Recommend building in ‘guix shell -CPW’. | expand

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Ludovic Courtès Nov. 22, 2023, 12:05 p.m. UTC 
This was prompted by <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/66537>, where someone
tried to build Guix within ‘guix shell --pure’ on a foreign distro and
found that ./configure would pick software from the host system.

Suggested by Hiep Pham <hiepph9@proton.me>.

* doc/contributing.texi (Building from Git): Recommend ‘guix shell -CPW’.

Change-Id: I7694b482d982917fef6ec404f68ddacea761f482
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 doc/contributing.texi | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


base-commit: d987b75618a62c95c030e7ca53e0972e700c4f06

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Ludovic Courtès Dec. 4, 2023, 9:51 p.m. UTC | #1 
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:

> This was prompted by <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/66537>, where someone
> tried to build Guix within ‘guix shell --pure’ on a foreign distro and
> found that ./configure would pick software from the host system.
>
> Suggested by Hiep Pham <hiepph9@proton.me>.
>
> * doc/contributing.texi (Building from Git): Recommend ‘guix shell -CPW’.
>
> Change-Id: I7694b482d982917fef6ec404f68ddacea761f482

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diff --git a/doc/contributing.texi b/doc/contributing.texi
index f3cc4d7af7..da72eae067 100644
--- a/doc/contributing.texi
+++ b/doc/contributing.texi
@@ -76,15 +76,17 @@  Building from Git
 hack on Guix:
 
 @example
-guix shell -D guix --pure
+guix shell -D guix -CPW
 @end example
 
 or even, from within a Git worktree for Guix:
 
 @example
-guix shell --pure
+guix shell -CPW
 @end example
 
+If @option{-C} (short for @option{--container}) is not supported on your
+system, try @command{--pure} instead of @option{-CPW}.
 @xref{Invoking guix shell}, for more information on that command.
 
 If you are unable to use Guix when building Guix from a checkout, the