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doc: Remind developers to build Guix.

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The previous instructions were correct, but we got too many bug reports
with a root cause of "did not build Guix yet".

Other parts of the manual already instruct `make && make check`, so this
makes the treatment of building Guix more consistent, too.

* doc/contributing.texi (Building from Git): Instruct the user to run
`make` when building Guix.
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@ -126,10 +126,10 @@ Store}, for information about this), usually @file{/var}. Note that you
will probably not run @command{make install} at the end (you don't have
to) but it's still important to pass the right @code{localstatedir}.
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}.
Finally, you have to invoke @code{make && make check} to build Guix and
run the 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}.
From there on, you can authenticate all the commits included in your
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