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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 0a7713e7ac..2da1ecd64c 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2017 Thomas Danckaert@* Copyright @copyright{} 2017 humanitiesNerd@* Copyright @copyright{} 2017 Christopher Allan Webber@* Copyright @copyright{} 2017, 2018 Marius Bakke@* -Copyright @copyright{} 2017 Hartmut Goebel@* +Copyright @copyright{} 2017, 2019 Hartmut Goebel@* Copyright @copyright{} 2017, 2019 Maxim Cournoyer@* Copyright @copyright{} 2017, 2018, 2019 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice@* Copyright @copyright{} 2017 George Clemmer@* @@ -6410,6 +6410,25 @@ passes flags specified by the @code{#:make-maker-flags} or Which Perl package is used can be specified with @code{#:perl}. @end defvr +@defvr {Scheme Variable} qt-build-system +This variable is exported by @code{(guix build-system qt)}. It +is intended for use with applications using Qt or KDE. + +This build system adds the phase @code{qt-wrap} to the ones defined by +@var{cmake-build-system}, after the @code{install} phase. + +This phase searches for Qt5 plugin paths, QML paths and some XDG in the inputs +and output. In case some path is found, all programs in the output's +@file{bin/}, @file{sbin/}, @file{libexec/} and @file{lib/libexec/} directories +are wrapped in scripts defining the necessary environment variables. + +It is possible to exclude specific package outputs from that wrapping process +by listing their names in the @code{#:qt-wrap-excluded-outputs} parameter. +This is useful when an output is known not to contain any Qt binaries, and +where wrapping would gratuitously add a dependency of that output on Qt, KDE, +or such. +@end defvr + @defvr {Scheme Variable} r-build-system This variable is exported by @code{(guix build-system r)}. It implements the build procedure used by @uref{https://r-project.org, R} |