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authorEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2014-12-14 01:39:32 +0100
committerEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2014-12-14 01:39:32 +0100
commit68b47178730a95871eba4aa4df19a845c8e5a947 (patch)
tree8cb71b4c73201198de38844c3ff0e344beb6f253 /doc/manual/expressions/debug-build.xml
parent6466d56f42aac8e3a4857ca22a9d5f70d8b7b7fe (diff)
Delete the stdenv section
It's outdated and better covered in the Nixpkgs manual.
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/expressions/debug-build.xml b/doc/manual/expressions/debug-build.xml
index 508cb2c19..0c1f4e671 100644
--- a/doc/manual/expressions/debug-build.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/expressions/debug-build.xml
@@ -6,13 +6,14 @@
<title>Debugging Build Failures</title>
-<para>At the beginning of each phase, the set of all shell variables
-is written to the file <filename>env-vars</filename> at the top-level
-build directory. This is useful for debugging: it allows you to
-recreate the environment in which a build was performed. For
-instance, if a build fails, then assuming you used the
-<option>-K</option> flag, you can go to the output directory and
-<quote>switch</quote> to the environment of the builder:
+<para>At the beginning of each phase of the build (such as unpacking,
+building or installing), the set of all shell variables is written to
+the file <filename>env-vars</filename> at the top-level build
+directory. This is useful for debugging: it allows you to recreate
+the environment in which a build was performed. For instance, if a
+build fails, then assuming you used the <option>-K</option> flag, you
+can go to the output directory and <quote>switch</quote> to the
+environment of the builder:
<screen>
$ nix-build -K ./foo.nix
@@ -30,4 +31,4 @@ $ make
</para>
-</section> \ No newline at end of file
+</section>