Re: Am I doing it all wrong?

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jgart <jgart@dismail.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> This is what I do to work on GNU Guix on a foreign distro:
>
> git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
>
> cd guix
> guix shell -D guix --container -- ./bootstrap
> guix shell -D guix --container -- ./configure --localstatedir=/var
> guix shell -D guix --container -- make
> guix shell --container --network coreutils vis ripgrep rlwrap -D guix 
> --share=/var/guix/
>
> Should I be doing anything differently in the above for setting up a dev 
> environment for guix hacking?

You probably want to invoke ./configure like so:
./configure --sysconfdir=/etc/ --localstatedir=/var/

Otherwise if you reconfigure the system from the local checkout you will
run into some "fun" behaviour.