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| author | Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com> | 2021-02-17 17:58:40 +0100 |
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| committer | Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com> | 2021-02-17 17:58:47 +0100 |
| commit | 1b578255245e2e1347059ad7d9171cf822c723a8 (patch) | |
| tree | 2e2cf8bc1405bc01a99e4457aaf060758302a058 | |
| parent | 7bd9898d5ca72ed136032590745c56826317a328 (diff) | |
Document meta.mainProgram
Issue #4498.
| -rw-r--r-- | src/nix/run.md | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/nix/run.md b/src/nix/run.md index c178e8b13..a76750376 100644 --- a/src/nix/run.md +++ b/src/nix/run.md @@ -43,9 +43,10 @@ program specified by the app definition. If *installable* evaluates to a derivation, it will try to execute the program `<out>/bin/<name>`, where *out* is the primary output store -path of the derivation and *name* is the name part of the value of the -`name` attribute of the derivation (e.g. if `name` is set to -`hello-1.10`, it will run `$out/bin/hello`). +path of the derivation and *name* is the `meta.mainProgram` attribute +of the derivation if it exists, and otherwise the name part of the +value of the `name` attribute of the derivation (e.g. if `name` is set +to `hello-1.10`, it will run `$out/bin/hello`). # Flake output attributes |