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Merge pull request #884 from srp/fix-nix-build-examples

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fix "nix-build" examples
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Eelco Dolstra 2016-05-03 11:13:54 +02:00
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doc/manual/expressions/simple-building-testing.xml
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@ -7,15 +7,14 @@
<title>Building and Testing</title>
<para>You can now try to build Hello. Of course, you could do
<literal>nix-env -f pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix -i hello</literal>,
but you may not want to install a possibly broken package just yet.
The best way to test the package is by using the command <command
linkend="sec-nix-build">nix-build</command>, which builds a Nix
expression and creates a symlink named <filename>result</filename> in
the current directory:
<literal>nix-env -i hello</literal>, but you may not want to install a
possibly broken package just yet. The best way to test the package is by
using the command <command linkend="sec-nix-build">nix-build</command>,
which builds a Nix expression and creates a symlink named
<filename>result</filename> in the current directory:
<screen>
$ nix-build pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix -A hello
$ nix-build -A hello
building path `/nix/store/632d2b22514d...-hello-2.1.1'
hello-2.1.1/
hello-2.1.1/intl/
@ -29,8 +28,7 @@ $ ./result/bin/hello
Hello, world!</screen>
The <link linkend='opt-attr'><option>-A</option></link> option selects
the <literal>hello</literal> attribute from
<filename>all-packages.nix</filename>. This is faster than using the
the <literal>hello</literal> attribute. This is faster than using the
symbolic package name specified by the <literal>name</literal>
attribute (which also happens to be <literal>hello</literal>) and is
unambiguous (there can be multiple packages with the symbolic name
@ -69,7 +67,7 @@ block (or perform other derivations if available) until the build
finishes:
<screen>
$ nix-build pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix -A hello
$ nix-build -A hello
waiting for lock on `/nix/store/0h5b7hp8d4hqfrw8igvx97x1xawrjnac-hello-2.1.1x'</screen>
So it is always safe to run multiple instances of Nix in parallel