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| author | Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com> | 2018-04-23 08:48:22 -0400 |
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| committer | Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com> | 2018-04-23 08:48:22 -0400 |
| commit | 8e6108ff71caae180d764ab9e9bff5593724655c (patch) | |
| tree | 22506136f8e27474705bb96e1ac13cec5cef5971 /doc | |
| parent | e2b028353b198d1590ee14101dbb74cd2a4c5730 (diff) | |
| parent | 639c166647ae733e927ae589864d996bb2d95b88 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'aarch64-armv7' of git://github.com/lheckemann/nix
Support extra compatible architectures (#1916)
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml | 19 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml b/doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml index 431c0e6d3..1865bb37c 100644 --- a/doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml +++ b/doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml @@ -254,6 +254,25 @@ false</literal>.</para> </varlistentry> + <varlistentry xml:id="conf-extra-platforms"><term><literal>extra-platforms</literal></term> + + <listitem><para>Platforms other than the native one which + this machine is capable of building for. This can be useful for + supporting additional architectures on compatible machines: + i686-linux can be built on x86_64-linux machines (and the default + for this setting reflects this); armv7 is backwards-compatible with + armv6 and armv5tel; some aarch64 machines can also natively run + 32-bit ARM code; and qemu-user may be used to support non-native + platforms (though this may be slow and buggy). Most values for this + are not enabled by default because build systems will often + misdetect the target platform and generate incompatible code, so you + may wish to cross-check the results of using this option against + proper natively-built versions of your + derivations.</para></listitem> + + </varlistentry> + + <varlistentry xml:id="conf-extra-substituters"><term><literal>extra-substituters</literal></term> <listitem><para>Additional binary caches appended to those |