From 637701b6047bff23a7dea4e02bebf94660b8cb4c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Heckemann Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 22:50:27 +0000 Subject: rename build-extra-platforms -> extra-platforms also document it --- doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml b/doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml index c76640c97e7e..5c21a40a11e9 100644 --- a/doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml +++ b/doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml @@ -254,6 +254,25 @@ false. + extra-platforms + + 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. + + + + extra-substituters Additional binary caches appended to those -- cgit 1.4.1