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commit e0508b6bf7a378e774b42e212befc77d5fb3eb5e
Author: Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]>
Date: Tue Dec 15 12:00:39 2015 +0100
doc: Give another example use of 'propagated-inputs'.
Suggested by Leo Famulari <[email protected]>.
* doc/guix.texi (package Reference): Explain 'propagated-inputs' for
non-C languages.
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doc/guix.texi | 13 ++++++++++---
1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 07668e9..f63e366 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -2305,9 +2305,16 @@ belong to (@pxref{package-cmd-propagated-inputs,
@command{guix
package}}, for information on how @command{guix package} deals with
propagated inputs.)
-For example this is necessary when a library needs headers of another
-library to compile, or needs another shared library to be linked
-alongside itself when a program wants to link to it.
+For example this is necessary when a C/C++ library needs headers of
+another library to compile, or when a pkg-config file refers to another
+one @i{via} its @code{Requires} field.
+
+Another example where @code{propagated-inputs} is useful is for
+languages that lack a facility to record the run-time search path akin
+to ELF's @code{RUNPATH}; this includes Guile, Python, Perl, GHC, and
+more. To ensure that libraries written in those languages can find
+library code they depend on at run time, run-time dependencies must be
+listed in @code{propagated-inputs} rather than @code{inputs}.
@item @code{self-native-input?} (default: @code{#f})
This is a Boolean field telling whether the package should use itself as
