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| author | Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com> | 2021-11-02 13:52:35 +0100 |
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| committer | Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com> | 2021-11-02 15:29:47 +0100 |
| commit | b61b307badd30149ddad6cde64d98ac2afb447a5 (patch) | |
| tree | 2c9061afe74aa0a7cf1e48efa38e0ed75e8c738d /doc/manual/src/installation/building-source.md | |
| parent | b8532c9ff16582b793d880ddea54e8806bd50238 (diff) | |
Remove references to building from the source tarball
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/src/installation/building-source.md | 11 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/src/installation/building-source.md b/doc/manual/src/installation/building-source.md index d21a51a82..ed1efffd8 100644 --- a/doc/manual/src/installation/building-source.md +++ b/doc/manual/src/installation/building-source.md @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ # Building Nix from Source -After unpacking or checking out the Nix sources, issue the following -commands: +After cloning Nix's Git repository, issue the following commands: ```console +$ ./bootstrap.sh $ ./configure options... $ make $ make install @@ -11,13 +11,6 @@ $ make install Nix requires GNU Make so you may need to invoke `gmake` instead. -When building from the Git repository, these should be preceded by the -command: - -```console -$ ./bootstrap.sh -``` - The installation path can be specified by passing the `--prefix=prefix` to `configure`. The default installation directory is `/usr/local`. You can change this to any location you like. You must have write permission |