06/06: doc: Mention --localstatedir for when building from Git.

[Ludovic Courtès]

civodul pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guix.

commit 3a25c63120ccc0176eab8b7e88aa1dfe25acd163
Author: Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
Date:   Sat Apr 16 00:46:59 2016 +0200

    doc: Mention --localstatedir for when building from Git.
    
    Reported by Hartmut Goebel <address@hidden>.
    
    * doc/contributing.texi (Building from Git): Mention --localstatedir.
---
 doc/contributing.texi |    8 ++++++--
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/contributing.texi b/doc/contributing.texi
index 91759b6..208c6af 100644
--- a/doc/contributing.texi
+++ b/doc/contributing.texi
@@ -78,9 +78,13 @@ export ACLOCAL_PATH=/usr/share/aclocal
 @xref{Macro Search Path,,, automake, The GNU Automake Manual}, for
 more information.
 
-Then, run @command{./configure} as usual.
+Then, run @command{./configure} as usual.  Make sure to pass
address@hidden@var{directory}} where @var{directory} is the
address@hidden value used by your current installation (@pxref{The
+Store}, for information about this).
 
-Finally, you have to invoke @code{make check} to run tests.  If anything
+Finally, you have to invoke @code{make check} to run tests
+(@pxref{Running the Test Suite}).  If anything
 fails, take a look at installation instructions (@pxref{Installation})
 or send a message to the @email{guix-devel@@gnu.org, mailing list}.