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Diffstat (limited to 'pkgs/development/libraries/glibc')
| -rw-r--r-- | pkgs/development/libraries/glibc/common.nix | 18 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/glibc/common.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/glibc/common.nix index 517c98e9f644..c8716bfdc796 100644 --- a/pkgs/development/libraries/glibc/common.nix +++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/glibc/common.nix @@ -1,5 +1,21 @@ /* Build configuration used to build glibc, Info files, and locale - information. */ + information. + + Note that this derivation has multiple outputs and does not respect the + standard convention of putting the executables into the first output. The + first output is `lib` so that the libraries provided by this derivation + can be accessed directly, e.g. + + "${pkgs.glibc}/lib/ld-linux-x86_64.so.2" + + The executables are put into `bin` output and need to be referenced via + the `bin` attribute of the main package, e.g. + + "${pkgs.glibc.bin}/bin/ldd". + + The executables provided by glibc typically include `ldd`, `locale`, `iconv` + but the exact set depends on the library version and the configuration. +*/ { stdenv, lib , buildPlatform, hostPlatform |