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doc: contributing: Clarify generating the pre-inst-env script. 

Lack of clarity reported by lrustland on IRC.

* doc/contributing.texi (Running Guix Before It Is Installed): Refer to
the Building from Git section when giving instructions for generating
the pre-inst-env script.
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@ -210,12 +210,11 @@ To that end, all the command-line tools can be used even if you have not
run @code{make install}. To do that, you first need to have an
environment with all the dependencies available (@pxref{Building from
Git}), and then simply prefix each command with @command{./pre-inst-env}
(the @file{pre-inst-env} script lives in the top build tree of Guix; it
is generated by running @command{./bootstrap} followed by
@command{./configure}). As an example, here is how you would build the
@code{hello} package as defined in your working tree (this assumes
@command{guix-daemon} is already running on your system; it's OK if it's
a different version):
(the @file{pre-inst-env} script lives in the top build tree of Guix;
@pxref{Building from Git} to generate it). As an example, here is how you
would build the @code{hello} package as defined in your working tree (this
assumes @command{guix-daemon} is already running on your system; it's OK if
it's a different version):
@example
$ ./pre-inst-env guix build hello