02/03: doc: Mention the build environment.

[Ludovic Courtès]

civodul pushed a commit to branch version-0.15.0
in repository guix.

commit 0207768fc9149461a010d7bf85cd5460b5d839e9
Author: Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
Date:   Wed Jul 4 14:36:07 2018 +0200

    doc: Mention the build environment.
    
    * doc/contributing.texi (Running Guix Before It Is Installed): Add a
    note about having the dependencies available.
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 doc/contributing.texi | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/contributing.texi b/doc/contributing.texi
index ca44b3b..8feb519 100644
--- a/doc/contributing.texi
+++ b/doc/contributing.texi
@@ -108,7 +108,9 @@ actually installing them.  So that you can distinguish 
between your
 ``end-user'' hat and your ``motley'' costume.
 
 To that end, all the command-line tools can be used even if you have not
-run @code{make install}.  To do that, prefix each command with
+run @code{make install}.  To do that, you first need to have an environment
+with all the dependencies available (@pxref{Building from Git}), and then
+simply prefix each command with
 @command{./pre-inst-env} (the @file{pre-inst-env} script lives in the
 top build tree of Guix), as address@hidden @option{-E} flag to
 @command{sudo} guarantees that @code{GUILE_LOAD_PATH} is correctly set