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authorCole Helbling <cole.e.helbling@outlook.com>2020-09-01 12:06:02 -0700
committerCole Helbling <cole.e.helbling@outlook.com>2020-09-01 12:06:02 -0700
commita72ed3e8a1028c66c36b7dd66dc9dd50a0a6ecc1 (patch)
tree4a351b4d6a3a0c428ecfbeaa3d67ccd89eef2907 /doc/manual/src
parenta76b8b546753bc14aa2e8f8fdc74f70407aebd31 (diff)
hacking.md: add --prefix flag to configure
Otherwise, the steps advertised in this document won't actually work (e.g. `make install` will fail, trying to access /usr, and `./inst/bin/nix` won't exist).
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@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ To build Nix itself in this shell:
```console
[nix-shell]$ ./bootstrap.sh
-[nix-shell]$ ./configure $configureFlags
+[nix-shell]$ ./configure $configureFlags --prefix=$(pwd)/inst
[nix-shell]$ make -j $NIX_BUILD_CORES
```