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| author | Matthew Bauer <mjbauer95@gmail.com> | 2018-11-18 23:23:22 -0600 |
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| committer | Matthew Bauer <mjbauer95@gmail.com> | 2018-11-19 13:03:23 -0600 |
| commit | 9d3108c3aee8214d26218e8c2be3b4d497246fbe (patch) | |
| tree | d123d5d01df02d5d4878c9a1d7869dc61d00d02b /doc/stdenv.xml | |
| parent | ee58ab3cb9e727444e92ed992c02ef75d4356d6a (diff) | |
doc/cross-compilation: fixup
More cleanups and stuff. May need to be split up.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/stdenv.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/stdenv.xml | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/stdenv.xml b/doc/stdenv.xml index 10d58f38399a..208b5e9cf302 100644 --- a/doc/stdenv.xml +++ b/doc/stdenv.xml @@ -258,15 +258,15 @@ genericBuild </para> <para> - It is important to note dependencies are not necessarily propagated as the - same sort of dependency that they were before, but rather as the + It is important to note that dependencies are not necessarily propagated as + the same sort of dependency that they were before, but rather as the corresponding sort so that the platform rules still line up. The exact rules for dependency propagation can be given by assigning to each dependency two integers based one how its host and target platforms are offset from the depending derivation's platforms. Those offsets are given below in the descriptions of each dependency list attribute. Algorithmically, we traverse propagated inputs, accumulating every propagated dependency's propagated - dependenciess and adjusting them to account for the "shift in perspective" + dependencies and adjusting them to account for the "shift in perspective" described by the current dependency's platform offsets. This results in sort a transitive closure of the dependency relation, with the offsets being approximately summed when two dependency links are combined. We also prune @@ -424,7 +424,7 @@ let f(h, h + 1, i) = i + h target offset from the new derivation's platforms. These are programs used at build time that produce code to run with code produced by the depending package. Most commonly, these are tools used to build the runtime or - standard library taht the currently-being-built compiler will inject into + standard library that the currently-being-built compiler will inject into any code it compiles. In many cases, the currently-being-built-compiler is itself employed for that task, but when that compiler won't run (i.e. its build and host platform differ) this is not possible. Other times, the |