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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index dcced797f7..11664f46f2 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -3995,6 +3995,25 @@ $ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/guix.git $ guix build guix --with-source=./guix @end example +@item --with-input=@var{package}=@var{replacement} +Replace dependency on @var{package} by a dependency on +@var{replacement}. @var{package} must be a package name, and +@var{replacement} must be a package specification such as @code{guile} +or @code{guile@@1.8}. + +For instance, the following command builds Guix but replaces its +dependency on the current stable version of Guile with a dependency on +the development version of Guile, @code{guile-next}: + +@example +guix build --with-input=guile=guile-next guix +@end example + +This is a recursive, deep replacement. So in this example, both +@code{guix} and its dependency @code{guile-json} (which also depends on +@code{guile}) get rebuilt against @code{guile-next}. + +However, implicit inputs are left unchanged. @end table @node Additional Build Options |