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| author | Maximilian Bosch <maximilian@mbosch.me> | 2020-09-27 22:35:03 +0200 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-09-27 20:35:03 +0000 |
| commit | 3655875483306fa893ec2b01295151819a00ccaa (patch) | |
| tree | c68fa9e9fabd3856dad29bbec7124db57d95dcfe /doc/manual/src/hacking.md | |
| parent | 5885b0cfd878b4b60556c5b03bbe52244d04191a (diff) | |
doc/manual: update hacking docs (#4078)
* By default, build artifacts should be installed into `outputs/` rather
than `inst/`[1].
* Add instructions on how to run unit-tests.
[1] 733d2e9402807e54d503c3113e854bfddb3d44e0
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/manual/src/hacking.md')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/src/hacking.md | 16 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/src/hacking.md b/doc/manual/src/hacking.md index 5bd884ce8..2a1e55e5b 100644 --- a/doc/manual/src/hacking.md +++ b/doc/manual/src/hacking.md @@ -39,17 +39,17 @@ To build Nix itself in this shell: ```console [nix-shell]$ ./bootstrap.sh -[nix-shell]$ ./configure $configureFlags --prefix=$(pwd)/inst +[nix-shell]$ ./configure $configureFlags --prefix=$(pwd)/outputs/out [nix-shell]$ make -j $NIX_BUILD_CORES ``` -To install it in `$(pwd)/inst` and test it: +To install it in `$(pwd)/outputs` and test it: ```console [nix-shell]$ make install -[nix-shell]$ make installcheck -[nix-shell]$ ./inst/bin/nix --version -nix (Nix) 2.4 +[nix-shell]$ make installcheck -j $NIX_BUILD_CORES +[nix-shell]$ ./outputs/out/bin/nix --version +nix (Nix) 3.0 ``` To run a functional test: @@ -58,6 +58,12 @@ To run a functional test: make tests/test-name-should-auto-complete.sh.test ``` +To run the unit-tests for C++ code: + +``` +make check +``` + If you have a flakes-enabled Nix you can replace: ```console |