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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 07668e917f..f63e3669fa 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 |