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| author | John Ericson <Ericson2314@Yahoo.com> | 2017-04-26 00:06:11 -0400 |
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| committer | John Ericson <John.Ericson@Obsidian.Systems> | 2017-06-22 17:52:28 -0400 |
| commit | 594d26420594acf458e5a8ab75229a2147d9194f (patch) | |
| tree | 9211ca90764bdb1810aa4c2a5fb0e5fd51f78a76 /doc/stdenv.xml | |
| parent | 9bfd03eff78aa37bff9a7f4cb12c6bed1f04e764 (diff) | |
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cross stdenv adaptor: Support --host --build --target across the board
Packages get --host and --target by default, but can explicitly request any subset to be passed as needed. See docs for more info. rustc: Avoid hash breakage by using the old (ignored) dontSetConfigureCross when not cross building
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diff --git a/doc/stdenv.xml b/doc/stdenv.xml index 9ec14d5a7828..e637962fbb7d 100644 --- a/doc/stdenv.xml +++ b/doc/stdenv.xml @@ -641,6 +641,16 @@ script) if it exists.</para> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> + <term><varname>configurePlatforms</varname></term> + <listitem><para> + By default, when cross compiling, the configure script has <option>--build=...</option> and <option>--host=...</option> passed. + Packages can instead pass <literal>[ "build" "host" "target" ]</literal> or a subset to control exactly which platform flags are passed. + Compilers and other tools should use this to also pass the target platform, for example. + Note eventually these will be passed when in native builds too, to improve determinism: build-time guessing, as is done today, is a risk of impurity. + </para></listitem> + </varlistentry> + + <varlistentry> <term><varname>preConfigure</varname></term> <listitem><para>Hook executed at the start of the configure phase.</para></listitem> |