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author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2019-01-25 23:25:03 +0100 |
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committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2019-01-26 00:06:55 +0100 |
commit | 280e9c2a26978474b13e8e29b57a6c7a8574df1a (patch) | |
tree | 12bf4857038ccd6883931f01eb0bf608dd0e04bc /doc | |
parent | 1379319fe7724d6cf077dc205f06c8cc179de943 (diff) |
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.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 11 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 0c8f3d131b..22fc03b8fa 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ 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? |