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author | Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> | 2021-01-25 14:58:01 -0500 |
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committer | Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> | 2021-02-01 11:54:00 -0500 |
commit | fa5673b0139382522bba6853a523d8b25a5d9394 (patch) | |
tree | 83fb4e1b34a4550cd81117c1fb993f9beeecd365 | |
parent | b79a18670249a473f77f98233310f592d86ad698 (diff) | |
download | guix-fa5673b0139382522bba6853a523d8b25a5d9394.tar.gz |
doc: Update references to PYTHONPATH and some examples.
The PYTHONPATH variable is replaced by GUIX_PYTHONPATH. Refresh the packages used or shown in some of the examples.
-rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 37 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 194bb3a314..2347a77f4f 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2017 humanitiesNerd@* Copyright @copyright{} 2017 Christopher Allan Webber@* Copyright @copyright{} 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 Marius Bakke@* Copyright @copyright{} 2017, 2019, 2020 Hartmut Goebel@* -Copyright @copyright{} 2017, 2019, 2020 Maxim Cournoyer@* +Copyright @copyright{} 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021 Maxim Cournoyer@* Copyright @copyright{} 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice@* Copyright @copyright{} 2017 George Clemmer@* Copyright @copyright{} 2017 Andy Wingo@* @@ -2734,8 +2734,8 @@ you should add them to @file{~/.bash_profile} (or equivalent file if you do not use Bash) so that environment variables are set next time you spawn a shell. You only need to do this once and other search paths environment variables will be taken care of similarly---e.g., if you -eventually install @code{python} and Python libraries, @code{PYTHONPATH} -will be defined. +eventually install @code{python} and Python libraries, +@env{GUIX_PYTHONPATH} will be defined. You can go on installing packages at your will. To list installed packages, run: @@ -3471,24 +3471,26 @@ Show details about @var{package}, taken from the list of available packages, in recutils manual}). @example -$ guix package --show=python | recsel -p name,version -name: python -version: 2.7.6 +$ guix package --show=guile | recsel -p name,version +name: guile +version: 3.0.5 -name: python -version: 3.3.5 +name: guile +version: 3.0.2 + +name: guile +version: 2.2.7 +@dots{} @end example You may also specify the full name of a package to only get details about a specific version of it (this time using the @command{guix show} alias): @example -$ guix show python@@3.4 | recsel -p name,version -name: python -version: 3.4.3 +$ guix show guile@@3.0.5 | recsel -p name,version +name: guile +version: 3.0.5 @end example - - @item --list-installed[=@var{regexp}] @itemx -I [@var{regexp}] List the currently installed packages in the specified profile, with the @@ -5493,11 +5495,11 @@ guix environment guile -- make -j4 In other situations, it is more convenient to specify the list of packages needed in the environment. For example, the following command -runs @command{python} from an environment containing Python@tie{}2.7 and +runs @command{python} from an environment containing Python@tie{}3 and NumPy: @example -guix environment --ad-hoc python2-numpy python-2.7 -- python +guix environment --ad-hoc python-numpy python -- python3 @end example Furthermore, one might want the dependencies of a package and also some @@ -7739,8 +7741,9 @@ packages, which consists in running @code{python setup.py build} and then @code{python setup.py install --prefix=/gnu/store/@dots{}}. For packages that install stand-alone Python programs under @code{bin/}, -it takes care of wrapping these programs so that their @env{PYTHONPATH} -environment variable points to all the Python libraries they depend on. +it takes care of wrapping these programs so that their +@env{GUIX_PYTHONPATH} environment variable points to all the Python +libraries they depend on. Which Python package is used to perform the build can be specified with the @code{#:python} parameter. This is a useful way to force a package |