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| author | Jörg Thalheim <Mic92@users.noreply.github.com> | 2018-10-25 10:38:29 +0100 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2018-10-25 10:38:29 +0100 |
| commit | 926d6c0bad41a094aefe0a9d3bbd14ccec83b30e (patch) | |
| tree | fdd0209198c9ac1e5da9198d38bba375e22dddcb /doc | |
| parent | 26974e962ebc5c1e3dfd8f6a84402ad72dc43d24 (diff) | |
| parent | 325a5699cb0002b135f778497486366c92e3f8e7 (diff) | |
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Merge pull request #42371 from Mic92/nix-breakpoints
breakpointHook: add for debugging failing builds
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/stdenv.xml | 19 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/stdenv.xml b/doc/stdenv.xml index cc0c13c54471..c3b155ab0e9f 100644 --- a/doc/stdenv.xml +++ b/doc/stdenv.xml @@ -2445,6 +2445,25 @@ addEnvHooks "$hostOffset" myBashFunction </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> + <varlistentry> + <term> + breakpointHook + </term> + <listitem> + <para> + This hook will make a build pause instead of stopping + when a failure happen. It prevents nix to cleanup the build + environment immediatly and allows the user to attach + to a build environemnt using the <varname>cntr</varname> command. + On build error it will print the instruction that are neccessary for cntr. + Note that <varname>cntr</varname> is not installed by default and + needs to be installed seperatly. <varname>cntr</varname> also needs to be executed + on the machine that is doing the build, which might be not the case + when remote builders are enabled. <varname>cntr</varname> is only supported + on linux based platforms. + </para> + </listitem> + </varlistentry> </variablelist> </para> </section> |