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| author | Nikolay Amiantov <ab@fmap.me> | 2016-01-21 18:43:52 +0300 |
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| committer | Nikolay Amiantov <ab@fmap.me> | 2016-01-21 18:44:27 +0300 |
| commit | f727f815cb075f6ff466f8c8a02a275502709eec (patch) | |
| tree | 9593448df8b9022589df1ade2724933fa8aad73f /doc | |
| parent | f63db297d6c411d058389da96aa34697ea531075 (diff) | |
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nixpkgs manual: mention preferLocalBuild and enableParallelBuilding
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diff --git a/doc/stdenv.xml b/doc/stdenv.xml index 6bb1002a4c6..8df23c91152 100644 --- a/doc/stdenv.xml +++ b/doc/stdenv.xml @@ -224,6 +224,30 @@ genericBuild </variablelist> +<variablelist> + <title>Variables affecting build properties</title> + + <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> + </varlistentry> + + <varlistentry> + <term><varname>preferLocalBuild</varname></term> + <listitem><para>If set, specifies that the package is so lightweight + in terms of build operations (e.g. write a text file from a Nix string + to the store) that there's no need to look for it in binary caches -- + it's faster to just build it locally. It also tells Hydra and other + facilities that this package doesn't need to be exported in binary + caches (noone would use it, after all).</para></listitem> + </varlistentry> + +</variablelist> + + </section> |