This was prompted by <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/66537>, where someone tried to build Guix within ‘guix shell --pure’ on a foreign distro and found that ./configure would pick software from the host system.
Suggested by Hiep Pham <[email protected]>. * doc/contributing.texi (Building from Git): Recommend ‘guix shell -CPW’. Change-Id: I7694b482d982917fef6ec404f68ddacea761f482 --- doc/contributing.texi | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/contributing.texi b/doc/contributing.texi index f3cc4d7af7..da72eae067 100644 --- a/doc/contributing.texi +++ b/doc/contributing.texi @@ -76,15 +76,17 @@ Building from Git hack on Guix: @example -guix shell -D guix --pure +guix shell -D guix -CPW @end example or even, from within a Git worktree for Guix: @example -guix shell --pure +guix shell -CPW @end example +If @option{-C} (short for @option{--container}) is not supported on your +system, try @command{--pure} instead of @option{-CPW}. @xref{Invoking guix shell}, for more information on that command. If you are unable to use Guix when building Guix from a checkout, the base-commit: d987b75618a62c95c030e7ca53e0972e700c4f06 -- 2.41.0
