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example: headers -> dev

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make the example more realistic, since `headers` is not an output name
used in Nixpkgs

Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>
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Valentin Gagarin 2023-09-26 00:46:26 +02:00
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doc/manual/src/language/derivations.md
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@ -75,16 +75,16 @@ It outputs an attribute set, and produces a [store derivation](@docroot@/glossar
Thus, the library package could specify:
```nix
outputs = [ "lib" "headers" "doc" ];
outputs = [ "lib" "dev" "doc" ];
```
This will cause Nix to pass environment variables `lib`, `headers`, and `doc` to the builder containing the intended store paths of each output.
This will cause Nix to pass environment variables `lib`, `dev`, and `doc` to the builder containing the intended store paths of each output.
The builder would typically do something like
```bash
./configure \
--libdir=$lib/lib \
--includedir=$headers/include \
--includedir=$dev/include \
--docdir=$doc/share/doc
```
@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ It outputs an attribute set, and produces a [store derivation](@docroot@/glossar
derivation by selecting it as an attribute, e.g.
```nix
buildInputs = [ pkg.lib pkg.headers ];
buildInputs = [ pkg.lib pkg.dev ];
```
<!-- FIXME: move this to the output attributes section when we have one -->
@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ It outputs an attribute set, and produces a [store derivation](@docroot@/glossar
Thus, you could also write
```nix
buildInputs = [ pkg pkg.headers ];
buildInputs = [ pkg pkg.dev ];
```
since `pkg` is equivalent to `pkg.lib`.