nixpkgs/doc/contributing/contributing-to-documentation.chapter.md
Jan Tojnar f0dfe62190 doc: Fix make in nix-shell
When running make manually, makeFlags will not be passed. Let’s just use an environment variable.

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# Contributing to this documentation {#chap-contributing}
The DocBook sources of the Nixpkgs manual are in the [doc](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/doc) subdirectory of the Nixpkgs repository.
You can quickly check your edits with `make`:
```ShellSession
$ cd /path/to/nixpkgs/doc
$ nix-shell
[nix-shell]$ make
```
If you experience problems, run `make debug` to help understand the docbook errors.
After making modifications to the manual, it's important to build it before committing. You can do that as follows:
```ShellSession
$ cd /path/to/nixpkgs/doc
$ nix-shell
[nix-shell]$ make clean
[nix-shell]$ nix-build .
```
If the build succeeds, the manual will be in `./result/share/doc/nixpkgs/manual.html`.