From: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: package dependencies
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 07:29:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151214062939.GA12226@thebird.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bn9uxy0l.fsf@gnu.org>
Thanks Ludo. I still think it could be made a little clearer from the packager's
perspective. How about concluding it with something like:
In short, to create a package, by default you should use 'inputs' for
dependencies. Use 'native-inputs' for tools used at build-time, but
not at runtime and use propagated-inputs when the other two do not
suffice.
On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 02:45:46PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I’ve rephrased the doc in “package Reference” in a way that is hopefully
> clearer:
>
> ‘inputs’ (default: ‘'()’)
> ‘native-inputs’ (default: ‘'()’)
> ‘propagated-inputs’ (default: ‘'()’)
> These fields list dependencies of the package. Each one is a
> list of tuples, where each tuple has a label for the input (a
> string) as its first element, a package, origin, or derivation
> as its second element, and optionally the name of the output
> thereof that should be used, which defaults to ‘"out"’ (*note
> Packages with Multiple Outputs::, for more on package
> outputs). For example, the list below specifies 3 inputs:
>
> `(("libffi" ,libffi)
> ("libunistring" ,libunistring)
> ("glib:bin" ,glib "bin")) ;the "bin" output of Glib
>
> The distinction between ‘native-inputs’ and ‘inputs’ is
> necessary when considering cross-compilation. When
> cross-compiling, dependencies listed in ‘inputs’ are built for
> the _target_ architecture; conversely, dependencies listed in
> ‘native-inputs’ are built for the architecture of the _build_
> machine.
>
> ‘native-inputs’ is typically where you would list tools needed
> at build time but not at run time, such as Autoconf, Automake,
> pkg-config, Gettext, or Bison. ‘guix lint’ can report likely
> mistakes in this area (*note Invoking guix lint::).
>
> Lastly, ‘propagated-inputs’ is similar to ‘inputs’, but the
> specified packages will be force-installed alongside the
> package they belong to (*note ‘guix package’:
> package-cmd-propagated-inputs, for information on how ‘guix
> package’ deals with propagated inputs.)
>
> For example this is necessary when a library needs headers of
> another library to compile, or needs another shared library to
> be linked alongside itself when a program wants to link to it.
>
> HTH!
>
> Ludo’.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-14 6:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-09 17:29 [PATCH] doc: rephrase code of conduct Alex Sassmannshausen
2015-12-09 19:13 ` package dependencies Fabian Harfert
2015-12-10 4:55 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-12-13 13:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-12-14 6:29 ` Pjotr Prins [this message]
2015-12-14 8:58 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-12-14 9:28 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-12-14 16:47 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-12-14 19:36 ` Leo Famulari
2015-12-15 10:18 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-12-15 10:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-12-16 4:53 ` Packagers tutorial, deployment tutorial Pjotr Prins
2015-12-17 13:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-12-17 18:40 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-12-17 22:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-12-17 22:58 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2015-12-18 1:03 ` Leo Famulari
2015-12-18 1:40 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2015-12-18 3:53 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-12-18 16:58 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2015-12-14 7:03 ` package dependencies Leo Famulari
2015-12-14 7:37 ` Ben Woodcroft
2015-12-14 8:56 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-12-15 12:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-12-09 21:19 ` [PATCH] doc: rephrase code of conduct Ludovic Courtès
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