Hi, On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 at 14:13, zimoun <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 13 Oct 2019 at 15:54, David Truby <[email protected]> wrote: > >> When following the Contributing section of the manual in my home >> directory, I was unable to use the built guix to do anything as I hit >> upon a message saying "error: failed to run download program >> '/home/truby/src/guix/scripts/guix': Permission denied​" >> >> After some debugging I realised this was because my home directory was >> not world readable. I think to avoid other people having this problem >> it might be worth mentioning in the manual that the source directory >> needs to be readable by the guixbuild group for the users in that >> group to be able to actually build anything. (In hindsight, this seems >> obvious to me. But it wasn't when I first ran through that section of >> the manual!) > > Since it appears to me obvious, I am not sure to see how to improve. > Because you ran into the problem, do you want to give a try in rewording > somewhere in the manual?
Do you think it is worth to add one line in this section about Building from Git [1] or this one about Running from Source [2]? 1: <https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/guix.html#Building-from-Git> 2:<https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/guix.html#Running-Guix-Before-It-Is-Installed> All the best, simon
