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authorzimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>2020-05-06 19:26:05 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2020-05-16 19:54:52 +0200
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doc: Reword "The GCC toolchain".
Fix commit 1f14e25c1969a93908288cb302a572f3cbbaa478 as discussed in <https://bugs.gnu.org/41038>. * doc/guix.texi (Packages for C Development): Rename to... (The GCC toolchain): ...this. Add gfortran-toolchain. (Invoking guix package): Add guix-search anchor. (Application Setup)[The GCC toolchain]: Remove. Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 90324ce291..22bf6bd224 100644
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+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -228,6 +228,7 @@ Development
* Invoking guix environment:: Setting up development environments.
* Invoking guix pack:: Creating software bundles.
+* The GCC toolchain:: Working with languages supported by GCC.
Programming Interface
@@ -1773,13 +1774,6 @@ want to avoid auto-loading the Emacs packages installed with Guix, you
can do so by running Emacs with the @option{--no-site-file} option
(@pxref{Init File,,, emacs, The GNU Emacs Manual}).
-@subsection The GCC toolchain
-
-@c XXX: The contents of this section were moved under
-@c ``Development'', since it makes more sense there and is not specific
-@c foreign distros. Remove it from here eventually?
-@xref{Packages for C Development}, for information on packages for C/C++
-development.
@node Upgrading Guix
@section Upgrading Guix
@@ -3045,6 +3039,7 @@ availability of packages:
@item --search=@var{regexp}
@itemx -s @var{regexp}
+@anchor{guix-search}
@cindex searching for packages
List the available packages whose name, synopsis, or description matches
@var{regexp} (in a case-insensitive fashion), sorted by relevance.
@@ -4675,9 +4670,9 @@ pack} command allows you to create @dfn{application bundles} that can be
easily distributed to users who do not run Guix.
@menu
-* Invoking guix environment:: Setting up development environments.
-* Invoking guix pack:: Creating software bundles.
-* Packages for C Development:: Working with C code with Guix.
+* Invoking guix environment:: Setting up development environments.
+* Invoking guix pack:: Creating software bundles.
+* The GCC toolchain:: Working with languages supported by GCC.
@end menu
@node Invoking guix environment
@@ -5388,13 +5383,15 @@ In addition, @command{guix pack} supports all the common build options
(@pxref{Common Build Options}) and all the package transformation
options (@pxref{Package Transformation Options}).
-@node Packages for C Development
-@section Packages for C Development
+
+@node The GCC toolchain
+@section The GCC toolchain
@cindex GCC
@cindex ld-wrapper
@cindex linker wrapper
@cindex toolchain, for C development
+@cindex toolchain, for Fortran development
If you need a complete toolchain for compiling and linking C or C++
source code, use the @code{gcc-toolchain} package. This package
@@ -5408,7 +5405,9 @@ invoke the actual linker with this new set of arguments. You can instruct the
wrapper to refuse to link against libraries not in the store by setting the
@env{GUIX_LD_WRAPPER_ALLOW_IMPURITIES} environment variable to @code{no}.
-
+The package @code{gfortran-toolchain} provides a complete GCC toolchain
+for Fortran development. For other languages, please use
+@samp{guix search gcc toolchain} (@pxref{guix-search,, Invoking guix package}).
@c *********************************************************************
@node Programming Interface