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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 56cc333fe4..42d7cfa2e8 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2017 Thomas Danckaert@* Copyright @copyright{} 2017 humanitiesNerd@* Copyright @copyright{} 2017 Christopher Allan Webber@* Copyright @copyright{} 2017, 2018, 2019 Marius Bakke@* -Copyright @copyright{} 2017, 2019 Hartmut Goebel@* +Copyright @copyright{} 2017, 2019, 2020 Hartmut Goebel@* Copyright @copyright{} 2017, 2019, 2020 Maxim Cournoyer@* Copyright @copyright{} 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice@* Copyright @copyright{} 2017 George Clemmer@* @@ -6460,10 +6460,24 @@ Which Perl package is used can be specified with @code{#:perl}. This variable is exported by @code{(guix build-system qt)}. It is intended for use with applications using Qt or KDE. -This build system adds the phase @code{qt-wrap} to the ones defined by -@code{cmake-build-system}, after the @code{install} phase. +This build system adds the following two phases to the ones defined by +@code{cmake-build-system}: -This phase searches for Qt5 plugin paths, QML paths and some XDG in the inputs +@table @code +@item check-setup +The phase @code{check-setup} prepares the environment for running +the checks as commonly used by Qt test programs. +For now this only sets some environment variables: +@code{QT_QPA_PLATFORM=offscreen}, +@code{DBUS_FATAL_WARNINGS=0} and +@code{CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE=1}. + +This phase is added before the @code{check} phase. +It's a separate phase to ease adjusting if necessary. + +@item qt-wrap +The phase @code{qt-wrap} +searches for Qt5 plugin paths, QML paths and some XDG in the inputs and output. In case some path is found, all programs in the output's @file{bin/}, @file{sbin/}, @file{libexec/} and @file{lib/libexec/} directories are wrapped in scripts defining the necessary environment variables. @@ -6473,6 +6487,9 @@ by listing their names in the @code{#:qt-wrap-excluded-outputs} parameter. This is useful when an output is known not to contain any Qt binaries, and where wrapping would gratuitously add a dependency of that output on Qt, KDE, or such. + +This phase is added after the @code{install} phase. +@end table @end defvr @defvr {Scheme Variable} r-build-system |