From a72ed3e8a1028c66c36b7dd66dc9dd50a0a6ecc1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cole Helbling <cole.e.helbling@outlook.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2020 12:06:02 -0700
Subject: 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).
---
 doc/manual/src/hacking.md | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'doc')

diff --git a/doc/manual/src/hacking.md b/doc/manual/src/hacking.md
index 9049e42bb..5bd884ce8 100644
--- a/doc/manual/src/hacking.md
+++ b/doc/manual/src/hacking.md
@@ -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
 ```
 
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