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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 4cf241c56a..3e7ffc81bc 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021 Leo Famulari@* Copyright @copyright{} 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 Ricardo Wurmus@* Copyright @copyright{} 2016 Ben Woodcroft@* Copyright @copyright{} 2016, 2017, 2018 Chris Marusich@* -Copyright @copyright{} 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 Efraim Flashner@* +Copyright @copyright{} 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 Efraim Flashner@* Copyright @copyright{} 2016 John Darrington@* Copyright @copyright{} 2016, 2017 Nikita Gillmann@* Copyright @copyright{} 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 Jan Nieuwenhuizen@* @@ -7449,8 +7449,10 @@ supports builds of packages using Cargo, the build tool of the It adds @code{rustc} and @code{cargo} to the set of inputs. A different Rust package can be specified with the @code{#:rust} parameter. -Regular cargo dependencies should be added to the package definition via the -@code{#:cargo-inputs} parameter as a list of name and spec pairs, where the +Regular cargo dependencies should be added to the package definition similarly +to other packages; those needed only at build time to native-inputs, others to +inputs. If you need to add source-only crates then you should add them to via +the @code{#:cargo-inputs} parameter as a list of name and spec pairs, where the spec can be a package or a source definition. Note that the spec must evaluate to a path to a gzipped tarball which includes a @code{Cargo.toml} file at its root, or it will be ignored. Similarly, cargo dev-dependencies @@ -7461,8 +7463,11 @@ In its @code{configure} phase, this build system will make any source inputs specified in the @code{#:cargo-inputs} and @code{#:cargo-development-inputs} parameters available to cargo. It will also remove an included @code{Cargo.lock} file to be recreated by @code{cargo} during the -@code{build} phase. The @code{install} phase installs the binaries -defined by the crate. +@code{build} phase. The @code{package} phase will run @code{cargo package} +to create a source crate for future use. The @code{install} phase installs +the binaries defined by the crate. Unless @code{install-source? #f} is +defined it will also install a source crate repository of itself and unpacked +sources, to ease in future hacking on rust packages. @end defvr @defvr {Scheme Variable} chicken-build-system |