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| author | John Ericson <Ericson2314@yahoo.com> | 2017-12-30 22:58:02 -0500 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2017-12-30 22:58:02 -0500 |
| commit | 4d2b7638173afb4c0f0c12a43654bcff5c9500ab (patch) | |
| tree | 04068195f42530a34d44a63019ddc9f77654804c /nixos/doc | |
| parent | 553fd19e679b68082329fdae40dcfb40c2f72cba (diff) | |
| parent | a98e68676dc96e9021d9bb0a9f210ac1a35d368b (diff) | |
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Merge pull request #26805 from obsidiansystems/cross-elegant
Make cross compilation elegant
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| -rw-r--r-- | nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1803.xml | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1803.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1803.xml index 4918cc28d706..3dc4c353e257 100644 --- a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1803.xml +++ b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1803.xml @@ -119,6 +119,18 @@ following incompatible changes:</para> Other more obscure ones are just moved. </para> </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> + The propagation logic has been changed. + The new logic, along with new types of dependencies that go with, is thoroughly documented in the "Specifying dependencies" section of the "Standard Environment" chapter of the nixpkgs manual. + <!-- That's <xref linkend="ssec-stdenv-attributes"> were we to merge the manuals. --> + The old logic isn't but is easy to describe: dependencies were propagated as the same type of dependency no matter what. + In practice, that means that many <function>propagatedNativeBuildInputs</function> should instead be <function>propagatedBuildInputs</function>. + Thankfully, that was and is the least used type of dependency. + Also, it means that some <function>propagatedBuildInputs</function> should instead be <function>depsTargetTargetPropagated</function>. + Other types dependencies should be unaffected. + </para> + </listitem> </itemizedlist> </section> |