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| author | Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> | 2018-01-20 21:36:17 +0100 |
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| committer | Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> | 2018-01-21 02:50:16 +0100 |
| commit | 782c94fe30268ef321dc32d313c96e33c4189b24 (patch) | |
| tree | d06f3773e61d28ef6738611065664b06f87b858a /doc/guix.texi | |
| parent | 89a26478160dcf90e5df6688a9df21fe993498bf (diff) | |
| download | guix-782c94fe30268ef321dc32d313c96e33c4189b24.tar guix-782c94fe30268ef321dc32d313c96e33c4189b24.tar.gz | |
doc: Improve ‘fix-runpath’ description.
* doc/guix.texi (Build Systems): Re-write ‘fix-runpath’ documentation
entirely. Just fixing the typos didn't do much.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/guix.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 58b9675a3f..983e00ab38 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2017 Christopher Allan Webber@* Copyright @copyright{} 2017 Marius Bakke@* Copyright @copyright{} 2017 Hartmut Goebel@* Copyright @copyright{} 2017 Maxim Cournoyer@* -Copyright @copyright{} 2017 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice@* +Copyright @copyright{} 2017, 2018 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice@* Copyright @copyright{} 2017 George Clemmer@* Copyright @copyright{} 2017 Andy Wingo@* Copyright @copyright{} 2017 Arun Isaac@* @@ -4005,12 +4005,12 @@ Apart from that, the build system also adds the following phases: @table @code @item fix-runpath -This phase tries to locate the local directories in the package being build, -which has libraries that some of the binaries need. If any are found, they will -be added to the programs @code{RUNPATH}. It is needed because -@code{meson-for-build} keeps the @code{RUNPATH} of binaries and libraries from -when they are build, but often that is not the @code{RUNPATH} we want. -Therefor it is also shrinked to the minimum needed by the program. +This phase ensures that all binaries can find the libraries they need. +It searches for required libraries in subdirectories of the package being +built, and adds those to @code{RUNPATH} where needed. It also removes +references to libraries left over from the build phase by +@code{meson-for-build}, such as test dependencies, that aren't actually +required for the program to run. @item glib-or-gtk-wrap This phase is the phase provided by @code{glib-or-gtk-build-system}, and it |