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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2019-01-25 23:25:03 +0100
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2019-01-26 00:06:55 +0100
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doc: Update bit about GUIX_LD_WRAPPER_ALLOW_IMPURITIES.
This is a followup to d0a2db47fb550d684c47a0ae3b541a9a71727d9e. * doc/guix.texi (Application Setup)[The GCC toolchain]: Adjust bit about GUIX_LD_WRAPPER_ALLOW_IMPURITIES.
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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 0c8f3d131b..22fc03b8fa 100644
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+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -1723,16 +1723,11 @@ including GCC itself, the GNU C Library (headers and binaries, plus
debugging symbols in the @code{debug} output), Binutils, and a linker
wrapper.
-@cindex attempt to use impure library, error message
-
The wrapper's purpose is to inspect the @code{-L} and @code{-l} switches
passed to the linker, add corresponding @code{-rpath} arguments, and
-invoke the actual linker with this new set of arguments. By default,
-the linker wrapper refuses to link to libraries outside the store to
-ensure ``purity''. This can be annoying when using the toolchain to
-link with local libraries. To allow references to libraries outside the
-store you need to define the environment variable
-@code{GUIX_LD_WRAPPER_ALLOW_IMPURITIES}.
+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
+@code{GUIX_LD_WRAPPER_ALLOW_IMPURITIES} environment variable to @code{no}.
@c TODO What else?