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| author | Orivej Desh <orivej@gmx.fr> | 2017-12-03 06:42:25 +0000 |
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| committer | Orivej Desh <orivej@gmx.fr> | 2017-12-07 08:52:42 +0000 |
| commit | 683047f8ab449388859c3982bd366cfbc2787ee2 (patch) | |
| tree | 3666509bd127b58c2dbc346a24f8b033f1733979 /doc/stdenv.xml | |
| parent | f568450637a22529c2eae97bee0adaf71ea96ac8 (diff) | |
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doc: document enableParallelBuilding being unset
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/stdenv.xml b/doc/stdenv.xml index 46b562a794f0..ee3403c196a4 100644 --- a/doc/stdenv.xml +++ b/doc/stdenv.xml @@ -251,10 +251,17 @@ genericBuild <varlistentry> <term><varname>enableParallelBuilding</varname></term> - <listitem><para>If set, <literal>stdenv</literal> will pass specific - flags to <literal>make</literal> and other build tools to enable - parallel building with up to <literal>build-cores</literal> - workers.</para></listitem> + <listitem> + <para>If set to <literal>true</literal>, <literal>stdenv</literal> will + pass specific flags to <literal>make</literal> and other build tools to + enable parallel building with up to <literal>build-cores</literal> + workers.</para> + + <para>Unless set to <literal>false</literal>, some build systems with good + support for parallel building including <literal>cmake</literal>, + <literal>meson</literal>, and <literal>qmake</literal> will set it to + <literal>true</literal>.</para> + </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> |