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Document usage and purpose of (propagated)nativeBuildInputs in nixpkgs manual #1915

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vcunat opened this issue Mar 10, 2014 · 24 comments
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Document usage and purpose of (propagated)nativeBuildInputs in nixpkgs manual #1915

vcunat opened this issue Mar 10, 2014 · 24 comments
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0.kind: enhancement Add something new 3.skill: trivial This is trivial to complete (typically find-and-replace) 6.topic: cross-compilation Building packages on a different platform than they will be used on 9.needs: documentation
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vcunat commented Mar 10, 2014

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@shlevy shlevy added this to the 14.04 milestone Apr 5, 2014
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@domenkozar domenkozar added this to the 14.11 milestone Oct 22, 2014
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Let's document that in 14.11

@domenkozar domenkozar modified the milestones: 15.05, 14.12 Apr 19, 2015
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How does this interact with #4855?

@domenkozar domenkozar modified the milestones: 16.03, 15.09 Nov 23, 2015
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vcunat commented Nov 23, 2015

Not much, I believe, but it will be easier to document after agreeing on the new semantics, if we "want to switch it" :-)

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(triage) has it been documented yet?

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domenkozar commented Jul 25, 2016 •
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$ grep -iR nativeBuildInputs doc

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@domenkozar domenkozar changed the title Document (propagated)nativeBuildInputs in nixpkgs manual Document usage and purpose of (propagated)nativeBuildInputs in nixpkgs manual Oct 9, 2016
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Can someone at least write in here what it does and why we need it?

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It's used for determining what packages are compiled natively when cross compiling. Everything else in buildInputs is cross compiled.

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see pkgs/stdenv/generic/setup.sh:299

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So really, crossEnvHook is called for buildInputs and envHook is called for nativeBuildInputs.

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I feel your pain @Profpatsch and thanks for every line of docs you write :)

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vcunat commented Oct 12, 2016

Yes, the "native" ones are inputs meant to be executed on the build machine and the regular ones are meant to be executed on the host machines (using GNU terminology).

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vcunat commented Oct 12, 2016

Also note that there are initiatives to rename these #4855, though they haven't really gathered enough momentum.

@rasendubi rasendubi added 9.needs: documentation 6.topic: cross-compilation Building packages on a different platform than they will be used on and removed old-label: documentation labels Oct 28, 2016
Ericson2314 added a commit to obsidiansystems/nixpkgs that referenced this issue Sep 20, 2017
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doc: Update stdenv chapter for changes I make in the following 3 commits
9b29411 
 - A new dependency section in the stdenv chapter
 - More information in the setup hook section of the stdenv chapter
 - Fix link destination in the cross compilation chapter

Fixes NixOS#1915---with this change I think the distinction is finally clear
enough.
bgamari pushed a commit to bgamari/nixpkgs that referenced this issue Oct 15, 2017
@Ericson2314
doc: Update stdenv chapter for changes I make in the following 3 commits
ad57b05 
 - A new dependency section in the stdenv chapter
 - More information in the setup hook section of the stdenv chapter
 - Fix link destination in the cross compilation chapter

Fixes NixOS#1915---with this change I think the distinction is finally clear
enough.
ElvishJerricco pushed a commit to ElvishJerricco/nixpkgs that referenced this issue Oct 22, 2017
@Ericson2314
doc: Update stdenv chapter for changes I make in the following 3 commits
bb297ab 
 - A new dependency section in the stdenv chapter
 - More information in the setup hook section of the stdenv chapter
 - Fix link destination in the cross compilation chapter

Fixes NixOS#1915---with this change I think the distinction is finally clear
enough.
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https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#ssec-stdenv-attributes -- It is documented here, isn't it ? @vcunat can this be closed?

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vcunat commented Oct 29, 2017

Right, thanks.

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bgamari pushed a commit to bgamari/nixpkgs that referenced this issue Nov 5, 2017
@Ericson2314 @bgamari
doc: Update stdenv chapter for changes I make in the following 3 commits
4a8591e 
 - A new dependency section in the stdenv chapter
 - More information in the setup hook section of the stdenv chapter
 - Fix link destination in the cross compilation chapter

Fixes NixOS#1915---with this change I think the distinction is finally clear
enough.
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Heh, I was leaving this open because in my yet-to-be merged PR the documentation is much improved, but oh well!

bgamari pushed a commit to bgamari/nixpkgs that referenced this issue Dec 10, 2017
@Ericson2314 @bgamari
doc: Update stdenv chapter for changes I make in the following 3 commits
cc13663 
 - A new dependency section in the stdenv chapter
 - More information in the setup hook section of the stdenv chapter
 - Fix link destination in the cross compilation chapter

Fixes NixOS#1915---with this change I think the distinction is finally clear
enough.
Ericson2314 added a commit to obsidiansystems/nixpkgs that referenced this issue Dec 22, 2017
@Ericson2314
doc: Update stdenv chapter for changes I make in the following 3 commits
b0cc462 
 - A new dependency section in the stdenv chapter
 - More information in the setup hook section of the stdenv chapter
 - Fix link destination in the cross compilation chapter

Fixes NixOS#1915---with this change I think the distinction is finally clear
enough.
Ericson2314 added a commit to obsidiansystems/nixpkgs that referenced this issue Dec 26, 2017
@Ericson2314
doc: Update stdenv chapter for changes I make in the following 3 commits
315c5d3 
 - A new dependency section in the stdenv chapter
 - More information in the setup hook section of the stdenv chapter
 - Fix link destination in the cross compilation chapter

Fixes NixOS#1915---with this change I think the distinction is finally clear
enough.
Ericson2314 added a commit to obsidiansystems/nixpkgs that referenced this issue Dec 31, 2017
@Ericson2314
doc: Add "Specifying Dependencies" section to the stdenv chapter
7ffc4e1 
This accounts for all the new dependencies and propagation logic changes
I'm about to add.

Fixes NixOS#1915---with this change I think the distinction is finally clear
enough.
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