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2015-10-06build: Automatically determine libgcrypt's file name....* m4/guix.m4 (GUIX_LIBGCRYPT_LIBDIR): New macro. * configure.ac: Use it when no --with-libgcrypt-* option was passed. * README: Do not recommend --with-libgcrypt-prefix. Co-authored-by: 宋文武 <iyzsong@gmail.com> Ludovic Courtès
2015-06-14doc: Move most 'HACKING' informations into the manual....* HACKING (Contributing): New section. (Building from Git, The Perfect Setup, Coding Style, Submitting Patches): Move to ... * doc/guix.texi (Running Guix Before It Is Installed): Likewise. * doc/contributing.texi: ... here. New file. * doc.am (EXTRA_DIST): Use it. * README (Installation): Adapt to it. * configure.ac (DOT): Likewise. Mathieu Lirzin
2015-06-04Document 'guix environment guix' in README....* README (Installing Guix from Guix): Replace complicated instructions with 'guix environment guix'. Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-10doc: Mention GNU Make as a requirement....* README (Requirements): Add GNU Make. * doc/guix.texi (Requirements): Likewise. Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-10build: Require Guile >= 2.0.7....* configure.ac: Require guile-2.0 >= 2.0.7. * README: Adjust accordingly. * doc/guix.texi (Requirements): Likewise. Ludovic Courtès
2014-10-27doc: Add a note about optional GnuTLS dependency....* README (Requirements): add a note about 'guix download''s GnuTLS dependency. * doc/guix.texi (Requirements): Likewise. Co-authored-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> Ian Denhardt
2014-10-06doc: Mention optional dependency on Guile-JSON....* README (Requirements): Add Guile-JSON. * doc/guix.texi (Requirements): Likewise. Ludovic Courtès
2014-09-02doc: Update "Installing Guix from Guix"....* README: Make 'guix package' command line more readable. Mention --localstatedir. Ludovic Courtès
2014-08-26doc: Replace /nix/store with /gnu/store in README.... * README update anachronistic reference to /nix/store John Darrington
2014-04-10doc: Mention 'gcc-toolchain' in README....* README (Installing Guix from Guix): Use "gcc-toolchain" instead of "gcc,binutils,ld-wrapper,glibc". Ludovic Courtès
2013-11-16doc: Improve "Installing Guix from Guix" section....Reported by Mark H. Weaver <mhw@netris.org>. * README (Installing Guix from Guix): Explicitly mention $PATH separately. Mention $ACLOCAL_PATH, not $ACLOCAL. Give the exact command to install the dependencies. Remove mention of $GUIX_LD_WRAPPER_ALLOW_IMPURITIES, which is no longer needed. Ludovic Courtès
2013-07-19doc: Improve build instructions in README and HACKING....* README (Requirements): Remove Nixpkgs. Remove mentions of building from Git. (Installation): Refer to the manual. * HACKING: List requirements for when building from Git. Remove the `dot: Command not found' error. Ludovic Courtès
2013-07-17doc: Mark 2.0.5 as being the minimum Guile version....* doc/guix.texi (Requirements): Require Guile 2.0.5+. * README: Ditto. Ludovic Courtès
2013-06-12doc: Describe the build procedure in more detail....* README (Requirements): Replace "autoreconf" by "bootstrap". (Installing Guix from Guix): Augment and update. Konrad Hinsen
2013-04-25doc: Add note on installing Guix from Guix....* README (Installing Guix from Guix): New section. Suggested by Alex Sassmannshausen <alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com>. Ludovic Courtès
2012-12-14daemon: Build `nix-setuid-helper'....* daemon.am (libexec_PROGRAMS, nix_setuid_helper_SOURCES, nix_setuid_helper_CPPFLAGS, nix_setuid_helper_LDADD): New variables. * test-env.in: Set and export `NIX_SETUID_HELPER'. * README (Installing Guix as non-root): New section. Ludovic Courtès
2012-12-06doc: Add new dependencies in `README'....* README (Hacking): Rename to... (Requirements): ... this. Add the daemon's dependencies. Ludovic Courtès
2012-11-25doc: Mention the pronunciation of "Guix"....* README: Mention pronunciation of "Guix". * doc/guix.texi (Introduction): Likewise. Ludovic Courtès
2012-11-24doc: Update `README'....* README: Update introductory summary. Point to Savannah instead of Gitorious. Mention <bug-guix@gnu.org>. (Guix & Nix): New section. Ludovic Courtès
2012-11-18doc: Add a "Related software" section to `README'....* README (Related software): New section. Ludovic Courtès
2012-11-18Turn Guix into "GNU Guix"....* configure.ac: Change package name to "GNU Guix", and bug-report address to `gnu-system-discuss@gnu.org'. * doc/guix.texi: Replace "Guix" by "GNU Guix" in some places. (Top, Introduction): Mention "for the GNU system". * HACKING, README: Use "GNU Guix" instead of "Guix" in some places. Ludovic Courtès
2012-11-03build: Require GNU libgcrypt....* guix/utils.scm (sha256): Remove Coreutils- and libchop-based implementations. * README: Update accordingly. * m4/guix.m4: New file. * configure.ac: Use `GUIX_ASSERT_LIBGCRYPT_USABLE'. Set and substitute `LIBGCRYPT_PREFIX'. * Makefile.am (AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS): Pass `--with-libgcrypt-prefix=$(LIBGCRYPT_PREFIX)'. Ludovic Courtès
2012-11-03build: Clearly mark Nixpkgs as optional....* configure.ac: Always show the result of checking for Nixpkgs. Don't warn when Nixpkgs is not found. * Makefile.am (AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS): Remove `--with-nixpkgs' flag. * guix/utils.scm (%nixpkgs-directory): Use either the compile-time or the run-time `NIXPKGS' environment variable. * release.nix (jobs.tarball, jobs.build): Remove `--with-nixpkgs' configure flag. * README: Mark Nixpkgs as optional. * distro/packages/databases.scm, distro/packages/guile.scm, distro/packages/typesetting.scm: Change uses of `nixpkgs-derivation*' to `nixpkgs-derivation', to avoid failing at compile-time. Ludovic Courtès
2012-10-05Augment `README'....* README (Hacking): Mention `--with-nixpkgs'. List the autotools and Gettext, as suggested by Nikita Karetnikov <nikita.karetnikov@gmail.com>. Ludovic Courtès
2012-07-01Update list of dependencies....* README: Require libgcrypt or libchop. Ludovic Courtès
2012-06-08Augment `README'.Ludovic Courtès
2012-06-03Add the usual top-level files.Ludovic Courtès