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authorEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2013-10-17T09·53+0200
committerEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2013-10-17T09·57+0200
commit792fd51f41212b0bf1d8a121a4f228a92fec3906 (patch)
tree495ba3ee5096f299710af679ebf7ed31b2af1478 /doc
parentf440558acc76c2939cf5f0744c6669279b6351a0 (diff)
Fold two stack trace messages in derivations
Combined with the previous changes, stack traces involving derivations
are now much less verbose, since something like

  while evaluating the builtin function `getAttr':
  while evaluating the builtin function `derivationStrict':
  while instantiating the derivation named `gtk+-2.24.20' at `/home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/libraries/gtk+/2.x.nix:11:3':
  while evaluating the derivation attribute `propagatedNativeBuildInputs' at `/home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/stdenv/generic/default.nix:78:17':
  while evaluating the attribute `outPath' at `/nix/store/212ngf4ph63mp6p1np2bapkfikpakfv7-nix-1.6/share/nix/corepkgs/derivation.nix:18:9':
  ...

now reads

  while evaluating the attribute `propagatedNativeBuildInputs' of the derivation `gtk+-2.24.20' at `/home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/libraries/gtk+/2.x.nix:11:3':
  ...
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/release-notes.xml5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/release-notes.xml b/doc/manual/release-notes.xml
index 926cac086e18..c9cab2eef3b4 100644
--- a/doc/manual/release-notes.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/release-notes.xml
@@ -57,8 +57,9 @@ are:</para>
   </listitem>
 
   <listitem>
-    <para>In order to be less verbose, stack traces no longer show
-    calls to builtin functions.</para>
+    <para>Stack traces are less verbose: they no longer show calls to
+    builtin functions and only show a single line for each derivation
+    on the call stack.</para>
   </listitem>
 
 </itemizedlist>