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* doc: Move most 'HACKING' informations into the manual.Mathieu Lirzin2015-06-141-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | * HACKING (Contributing): New section. (Building from Git, The Perfect Setup, Coding Style, Submitting Patches): Move to ... * doc/guix.texi (Running Guix Before It Is Installed): Likewise. * doc/contributing.texi: ... here. New file. * doc.am (EXTRA_DIST): Use it. * README (Installation): Adapt to it. * configure.ac (DOT): Likewise.
* Document 'guix environment guix' in README.Ludovic Courtès2015-06-041-11/+2
| | | | | * README (Installing Guix from Guix): Replace complicated instructions with 'guix environment guix'.
* doc: Mention GNU Make as a requirement.Ludovic Courtès2015-05-101-0/+1
| | | | | * README (Requirements): Add GNU Make. * doc/guix.texi (Requirements): Likewise.
* build: Require Guile >= 2.0.7.Ludovic Courtès2015-05-101-1/+1
| | | | | | * configure.ac: Require guile-2.0 >= 2.0.7. * README: Adjust accordingly. * doc/guix.texi (Requirements): Likewise.
* doc: Add a note about optional GnuTLS dependency.Ian Denhardt2014-10-271-0/+3
| | | | | | | * README (Requirements): add a note about 'guix download''s GnuTLS dependency. * doc/guix.texi (Requirements): Likewise. Co-authored-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
* doc: Mention optional dependency on Guile-JSON.Ludovic Courtès2014-10-061-0/+1
| | | | | * README (Requirements): Add Guile-JSON. * doc/guix.texi (Requirements): Likewise.
* doc: Update "Installing Guix from Guix".Ludovic Courtès2014-09-021-6/+10
| | | | | * README: Make 'guix package' command line more readable. Mention --localstatedir.
* doc: Replace /nix/store with /gnu/store in README.John Darrington2014-08-261-1/+1
| | | | * README update anachronistic reference to /nix/store
* doc: Mention 'gcc-toolchain' in README.Ludovic Courtès2014-04-101-1/+1
| | | | | * README (Installing Guix from Guix): Use "gcc-toolchain" instead of "gcc,binutils,ld-wrapper,glibc".
* doc: Improve "Installing Guix from Guix" section.Ludovic Courtès2013-11-161-17/+7
| | | | | | | | | Reported by Mark H. Weaver <mhw@netris.org>. * README (Installing Guix from Guix): Explicitly mention $PATH separately. Mention $ACLOCAL_PATH, not $ACLOCAL. Give the exact command to install the dependencies. Remove mention of $GUIX_LD_WRAPPER_ALLOW_IMPURITIES, which is no longer needed.
* doc: Improve build instructions in README and HACKING.Ludovic Courtès2013-07-191-13/+6
| | | | | | | | * 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.
* doc: Mark 2.0.5 as being the minimum Guile version.Ludovic Courtès2013-07-171-1/+1
| | | | | * doc/guix.texi (Requirements): Require Guile 2.0.5+. * README: Ditto.
* doc: Describe the build procedure in more detail.Konrad Hinsen2013-06-121-4/+26
| | | | | * README (Requirements): Replace "autoreconf" by "bootstrap". (Installing Guix from Guix): Augment and update.
* doc: Add note on installing Guix from Guix.Ludovic Courtès2013-04-251-0/+10
| | | | | * README (Installing Guix from Guix): New section. Suggested by Alex Sassmannshausen <alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com>.
* daemon: Build `nix-setuid-helper'.Ludovic Courtès2012-12-141-4/+23
| | | | | | | * daemon.am (libexec_PROGRAMS, nix_setuid_helper_SOURCES, nix_setuid_helper_CPPFLAGS, nix_setuid_helper_LDADD): New variables. * test-env.in: Set and export `NIX_SETUID_HELPER'. * README (Installing Guix as non-root): New section.
* doc: Add new dependencies in `README'.Ludovic Courtès2012-12-061-2/+11
| | | | | * README (Hacking): Rename to... (Requirements): ... this. Add the daemon's dependencies.
* doc: Mention the pronunciation of "Guix".Ludovic Courtès2012-11-251-5/+5
| | | | | * README: Mention pronunciation of "Guix". * doc/guix.texi (Introduction): Likewise.
* doc: Update `README'.Ludovic Courtès2012-11-241-12/+52
| | | | | | * README: Update introductory summary. Point to Savannah instead of Gitorious. Mention <bug-guix@gnu.org>. (Guix & Nix): New section.
* doc: Add a "Related software" section to `README'.Ludovic Courtès2012-11-181-0/+13
| | | | * README (Related software): New section.
* Turn Guix into "GNU Guix".Ludovic Courtès2012-11-181-1/+1
| | | | | | | | * configure.ac: Change package name to "GNU Guix", and bug-report address to `gnu-system-discuss@gnu.org'. * doc/guix.texi: Replace "Guix" by "GNU Guix" in some places. (Top, Introduction): Mention "for the GNU system". * HACKING, README: Use "GNU Guix" instead of "Guix" in some places.
* build: Require GNU libgcrypt.Ludovic Courtès2012-11-031-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | * guix/utils.scm (sha256): Remove Coreutils- and libchop-based implementations. * README: Update accordingly. * m4/guix.m4: New file. * configure.ac: Use `GUIX_ASSERT_LIBGCRYPT_USABLE'. Set and substitute `LIBGCRYPT_PREFIX'. * Makefile.am (AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS): Pass `--with-libgcrypt-prefix=$(LIBGCRYPT_PREFIX)'.
* build: Clearly mark Nixpkgs as optional.Ludovic Courtès2012-11-031-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * configure.ac: Always show the result of checking for Nixpkgs. Don't warn when Nixpkgs is not found. * Makefile.am (AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS): Remove `--with-nixpkgs' flag. * guix/utils.scm (%nixpkgs-directory): Use either the compile-time or the run-time `NIXPKGS' environment variable. * release.nix (jobs.tarball, jobs.build): Remove `--with-nixpkgs' configure flag. * README: Mark Nixpkgs as optional. * distro/packages/databases.scm, distro/packages/guile.scm, distro/packages/typesetting.scm: Change uses of `nixpkgs-derivation*' to `nixpkgs-derivation', to avoid failing at compile-time.
* Augment `README'.Ludovic Courtès2012-10-051-2/+14
| | | | | * README (Hacking): Mention `--with-nixpkgs'. List the autotools and Gettext, as suggested by Nikita Karetnikov <nikita.karetnikov@gmail.com>.
* Update list of dependencies.Ludovic Courtès2012-07-011-4/+4
| | | | * README: Require libgcrypt or libchop.
* Augment `README'.Ludovic Courtès2012-06-081-0/+37
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* Add the usual top-level files.Ludovic Courtès2012-06-031-0/+9