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114 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
aiotter
dbd75e3229 doc: update cmake doc for better readability 2022-07-16 19:10:31 +09:00
Robert Hensing
3c1447f807
Merge pull request #121015 from fricklerhandwerk/docs-patch-shebangs
docs: expand explanation of patchShebangs hook
2022-07-13 12:17:11 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
b7b86c4f54
add stable anchor
Co-authored-by: Jan Tojnar <jtojnar@gmail.com>
2022-07-13 10:19:23 +01:00
Randy Eckenrode
25ccd71ff8
doc: update Darwin platform doc regarding the 11.0 SDK 2022-07-07 07:52:36 -04:00
Artturin
6e6292279e meson: add mesonEmulatorHook
fixes building documentation while cross-compiling and other issues
Exec format error: './gdk3-scan'

added some simple documentation
2022-06-11 04:51:04 +03:00
Valentin Gagarin
c3ea8c4dd9 do not mention trivial builders 2022-06-10 11:43:57 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
e132e6be3c
fix heading level 2022-06-09 13:43:21 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
f70073d72d
remove specifics on where build inputs come from in PATH
Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>
2022-06-08 11:43:32 +02:00
Adam Joseph
81bc106e08 meta.sourceProvenance documentation: clarify it is unaffected by changes to meta.license
This commit clarifies that the meaning of the `meta.sourceProvenance`
field is independent of and unaffected by the value of the
`meta.license` field.  This is based on the intent of the RFC author
as expressed here:

  https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/161098#issuecomment-1081270201

This clarification is added for two reasons:

1. If in the future there should be some disagreement about what
   `sourceProvenance` to assign to a package, this may help resolve
   the disagreement.  Any interpretation of `sourceProvenance` which
   is influenced by the `meta.license` is clearly an incorrect
   interpretation.

2. If it should turn out that it is impossible to disentangle
   `sourceProvenance` from `meta.license`, this would indicate the
   need for changes to the `sourceProvenance` scheme.  That change
   might be as simple as replacing the sentence added by this commit
   with some other sentence explaining how the two fields influence
   each other.

This commit implements the recommendation made in the paragraph of
this comments which begins with "Please say this explicitly...":

  https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/161098#issuecomment-1081309089
2022-05-30 16:27:34 +08:00
Robert Scott
9d0784829a add initial meta.sourceProvenance documentation 2022-05-30 16:27:34 +08:00
Artturin
c1fffdfffb treewide: change some glibc to stdenv.cc.libc 2022-05-27 05:57:43 +03:00
Artturin
0c4d65b21e treewide: stdenv.glibc -> glibc 2022-05-25 15:51:20 +03:00
Naïm Favier
0d6bcb513b
makeBinaryWrapper: move into its own folder
The derivation is complex enough to warrant moving out of
all-packages.nix
2022-05-10 22:07:56 +02:00
Robert Hensing
0e00acafe9 stdenv.mkDerivation: public -> finalPackage 2022-05-02 08:49:33 +02:00
Robert Hensing
ca83dd1ae7 stdenv.md: Clarify overrideAttrs sentence
I weirded my English.
2022-05-02 08:49:32 +02:00
Robert Hensing
d629ba27d9 Use finalAttrs instead of self for mkDerivation "overlay" 2022-05-02 08:49:31 +02:00
Robert Hensing
6d7efb3a16 stdenv.mkDerivation: Make self more overlay-like; use self.public
`self` is now arguments, like `super`. The final package is in
`self.public`.
2022-05-02 08:49:31 +02:00
Robert Hensing
2f21bc2fdb doc/stdenv/meta: tests -> passthru.tests
Make the text understandable without knowing that these are identical.

Co-authored-by: Daniël de Kok <me@github.danieldk.eu>
2022-05-02 08:49:30 +02:00
Robert Hensing
a4e7085227 stdenv.mkDerivation: Allow overriding of recursive definitions
See updated manual for further explanation.
2022-05-02 08:49:26 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
311d322feb docs: sync patchShebangs comments with manual
this is not an actual sync, but rather the manual taking the leading role.
right now it does not make sense to actually change `patch-shebangs.sh`
as that would cause a rebuild of the entire universe.

we should figure out how to keep them aligned with minimal effort both
in terms of maintenance as well as navigation for readers.
2022-04-21 12:21:49 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
9a2ed65370 fix wording, remove too much specificity
Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>
2022-04-21 09:27:11 +02:00
fricklerhandwerk
b4d9d682c8 docs: clean up and update links to source code 2022-04-21 09:27:11 +02:00
fricklerhandwerk
e3883d2ce0 docs: clarify note on existing store paths 2022-04-21 09:27:10 +02:00
fricklerhandwerk
b0fce27ce2 docs: expand explanation of patchShebangs hook
- clarify motivation and mechanism
- explain usage
- add interlinks
- add links to sources to enable research

based on https://discourse.nixos.org/t/what-is-the-patchshebangs-command-in-nix-build-expressions/12656
2022-04-21 09:27:09 +02:00
Samuel Ainsworth
a7fc2f6392 autoPatchelfHook: more precise dependency ignorance 2022-04-11 01:28:55 +00:00
Adam Joseph
7dbe7487b6
Update doc/stdenv/cross-compilation.chapter.md
Co-authored-by: Ben Siraphob <bensiraphob@gmail.com>
2022-04-03 17:43:52 +00:00
Adam Joseph
c9d66a7fff cross-compilation.chapter.md: give examples of all depFooBar cases
This commit describes the "->" notation for dependency types in
greater detail, and uses g++ to provide examples of all six cases
(although the host->target and target->target examples are a bit
artificial).

It also adds three more rows to the table for the "->*" dependency
types for non-compiler-like packages; these dependency types were
already present in the documentation but the "*" was not really
explained.

Lastly, this commit adds a hyperlink to the table from the place where
it is mentioned in the "specifying dependencies" chapter.
2022-04-02 19:41:49 -07:00
Jan Tojnar
e61eec13a5
Merge pull request #159344 from symphorien/doc-remove-references-to
doc: document remove-references-to
2022-02-19 15:17:05 +01:00
Guillaume Girol
f16a62bd63 doc: document remove-references-to 2022-02-19 12:00:00 +00:00
Guillaume Girol
02a8d5984c doc: discourage setting phases, document/encourage runHook instead.
Source:
https://matrix.to/#/!kjdutkOsheZdjqYmqp:nixos.org/$mff3KCoPY5sfgsUhKn0e4va7hnz7KMXARaO2_UaLNM4?via=nixos.org&via=matrix.org&via=nixos.dev
2022-02-12 12:00:00 +00:00
Robert Hensing
c9b3d27be0
stdenv.md: Call out that genericBuild has correct order
Co-authored-by: Cole Helbling <cole.e.helbling@outlook.com>
2022-02-02 23:45:51 +01:00
Robert Hensing
0838f79f0b stdenv.md: Document genericBuild 2022-02-01 16:58:52 +01:00
Robert Hensing
b08ee51cc7 stdenv.md: Remove off topic phase propaganda
Phases are cool, I get it, but the reader will enjoy it when they
see it. And they'll see it sooner if they don't have to read about
it.
2022-02-01 16:46:18 +01:00
Felix Buehler
7801f72b4c meta.updateWalker: remove, because it is not used 2022-01-26 21:46:07 +01:00
Robert Hensing
9fb7d91888
Merge pull request #124556 from bergkvist/bergkvist/make-c-wrapper
Generate tiny compiled binary for wrapping executables
2021-12-10 00:45:30 +01:00
Doron Behar
ceffea674d
Small rephrase of wrapProgram documentation
Co-authored-by: Julian Stecklina <js@alien8.de>
2021-12-09 23:24:13 +02:00
Doron Behar
c42e6741b2 Rephrase documentation for both makeWrapper implementations 2021-12-09 16:02:02 +02:00
Doron Behar
32d566e1b9 wrapProgramBinary -> binaryWrapProgram 2021-12-08 18:59:38 +02:00
Doron Behar
2b103ab8a1 Remove TODO in documentation 2021-12-02 10:43:47 +02:00
Jan Tojnar
23f71e9427
Merge pull request #136345 from Pamplemousse/doc
doc: clarification of dependencies related attributes
2021-10-26 09:52:37 +02:00
Doron Behar
eb048d8fe2 Rephrase makeWrapper setup-hook 2021-10-20 08:59:29 +03:00
Doron Behar
6517e5b10f Improve explenations for wrap*Program 2021-10-19 17:33:02 +03:00
Doron Behar
ba86a1916b makeBinaryWrapper: Document 2021-10-19 05:30:42 -07:00
laikq
6ef3c96ddf doc: reference sourceRoot in description of srcs 2021-10-05 08:47:08 +02:00
ppom
896623dbe9 patchelf: fix homepage 2021-09-21 13:04:09 +02:00
Pamplemousse
f48c175fb2 doc: clarification of dependencies related attributes
Signed-off-by: Pamplemousse <xav.maso@gmail.com>
2021-08-31 16:57:46 -07:00
figsoda
4b93f966c5 doc: stdenv: document meta.mainProgram 2021-08-19 14:00:04 -04:00
Arnout Engelen
d09e0be1c4
nixpkgs-docs: when to prefer passthru.tests over installCheckPhase
And mention you can have either lightweight 'package' or
more heavyweight 'NixOS' (module) tests.

This was suggested at
https://github.com/ryantm/nixpkgs-update/issues/260#issuecomment-821287971
and discussed further at
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/119731
2021-08-14 09:47:21 +02:00
Niklas Hambüchen
7cfaba911d manual: Hardening: Remove now-nonexistent ArchWiki link.
The page has been replaced by the much more general page
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Security#Packages
which is barely talking about hardening flags any more.
2021-07-05 22:57:52 +02:00
Niklas Hambüchen
ac36a0f9eb manual: hardening: Fix disabled flags prose being in previous section
This confused the hell out of me, as I didn't spot the

> The following flags are disabled by default ...

when reading about `pie`, because that sentence was hidden in the
previous hardening flag's section.

Also explain that `pie` hardening is on by default on musl.
2021-07-05 16:32:55 +02:00