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authorEelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>2020-07-23 10:44:54 +0200
committerEelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>2020-07-23 18:27:11 +0200
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@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ Derivations can declare some infrequently used optional attributes.
impureEnvVars = [ "http_proxy" "https_proxy" ... ];
to make it use the proxy server configuration specified by the user
- in the environment variables http\_proxy and friends.
+ in the environment variables `http_proxy` and friends.
This attribute is only allowed in [fixed-output
derivations](#fixed-output-drvs), where impurities such as these are
@@ -201,15 +201,15 @@ Derivations can declare some infrequently used optional attributes.
```
- then when the builder runs, the environment variable bigPath will
+ then when the builder runs, the environment variable `bigPath` will
contain the absolute path to a temporary file containing `a very
long
string`. That is, for any attribute x listed in `passAsFile`, Nix
- will pass an environment variable xPath holding the path of the file
- containing the value of attribute x. This is useful when you need to
- pass large strings to a builder, since most operating systems impose
- a limit on the size of the environment (typically, a few hundred
- kilobyte).
+ will pass an environment variable `xPath` holding the path of the
+ file containing the value of attribute x. This is useful when you
+ need to pass large strings to a builder, since most operating
+ systems impose a limit on the size of the environment (typically, a
+ few hundred kilobyte).
- `preferLocalBuild`
If this attribute is set to `true` and [distributed building is