forked from lix-project/lix
jade
748d8310fa
This doesn't comprehensively fix everything outdated in the manual, or
make the manual greatly better, but it does note down where at least
jade noticed it was wrong, and it does fix all the instances of
referencing Nix to conform to the style guide to the best of our
ability.
A lot of things have been commented out for being wrong, and there are
three types of FIXME introduced:
- FIXME(Lix): generically Lix needs to fix it
- FIXME(Qyriad): re lix-project/lix#215
- FIXME(meson): docs got outdated by meson changes and need rewriting
I did fix a bunch of it that I could, but there could certainly be
mistakes and this is definitely just an incremental improvement.
Fixes: lix-project/lix#266
Change-Id: I5993c4603d7f026a887089fce77db08394362135
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# Building Lix from Source
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<div class="warning">
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FIXME(meson): This section is outdated for meson and has been commented out. See https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/issues/258
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</div>
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<!--
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After cloning Lix's Git repository, issue the following commands:
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```console
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$ autoreconf -vfi
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$ ./configure options...
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$ make
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$ make install
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```
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Nix requires GNU Make so you may need to invoke `gmake` instead.
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The installation path can be specified by passing the `--prefix=prefix`
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to `configure`. The default installation directory is `/usr/local`. You
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can change this to any location you like. You must have write permission
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to the *prefix* path.
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Nix keeps its *store* (the place where packages are stored) in
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`/nix/store` by default. This can be changed using
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`--with-store-dir=path`.
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> **Warning**
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>
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> It is best *not* to change the Nix store from its default, since doing
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> so makes it impossible to use pre-built binaries from the standard
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> Nixpkgs channels — that is, all packages will need to be built from
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> source.
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Nix keeps state (such as its database and log files) in `/nix/var` by
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default. This can be changed using `--localstatedir=path`.
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-->
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