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Added comment telling about setup-hook and propagatedBuildInputs

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Marc Weber 2007-10-22 01:10:19 +00:00
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doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml
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<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xml:id='chap-writing-nix-expressions'> xml:id='chap-writing-nix-expressions'>
@ -526,7 +526,16 @@ genericBuild <co xml:id='ex-hello-builder2-co-3' /></programlisting>
<filename>bin</filename> subdirectory, it's added to <filename>bin</filename> subdirectory, it's added to
<envar>PATH</envar>; if it has a <filename>include</filename> <envar>PATH</envar>; if it has a <filename>include</filename>
subdirectory, it's added to GCC's header search path; and so subdirectory, it's added to GCC's header search path; and so
on.</para> on.
<footnote><para>How does it work? setup tries sourcing
$out/nix-support/setup-hook of all dependencies
thereby defining environment variables.
If you have A depending on B depending on C
you can force the setup-hooks of C beeing sourced when evaluating
expression A by using
<programlisting>propagatedBuildInputs=[ C ];</programlisting>
instead of buildInputs when defining derivation B.
</para></footnote></para>
</callout> </callout>
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<para>The function <function>genericBuild</function> is defined in <para>The function <function>genericBuild</function> is defined in
the file <literal>$stdenv/setup</literal>.</para> the file <literal>$stdenv/setup</literal>.</para>
</callout> </callout> looks for a file nix-support/setup-hook within the derivation path.
<callout arearefs='ex-hello-builder2-co-3'> <callout arearefs='ex-hello-builder2-co-3'>