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-<appendix xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
-          xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
-          xml:id="chap-hacking">
-
-<title>Hacking</title>
-
-<para>This section provides some notes on how to hack on Nix.  To get
-the latest version of Nix from GitHub:
-<screen>
-$ git clone git://github.com/NixOS/nix.git
-$ cd nix
-</screen>
-</para>
-
-<para>To build it and its dependencies:
-<screen>
-$ nix-build release.nix -A build.x86_64-linux
-</screen>
-</para>
-
-<para>To build all dependencies and start a shell in which all
-environment variables are set up so that those dependencies can be
-found:
-<screen>
-$ nix-shell
-</screen>
-To build Nix itself in this shell:
-<screen>
-[nix-shell]$ ./bootstrap.sh
-[nix-shell]$ configurePhase
-[nix-shell]$ make
-</screen>
-To install it in <literal>$(pwd)/inst</literal> and test it:
-<screen>
-[nix-shell]$ make install
-[nix-shell]$ make installcheck
-</screen>
-
-</para>
-
-</appendix>