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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 30cd56fcf3..e1fb50a634 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2020 Daniel Brooks@* Copyright @copyright{} 2020 John Soo@* Copyright @copyright{} 2020 Jonathan Brielmaier@* Copyright @copyright{} 2020 Edgar Vincent@* -Copyright @copyright{} 2021 Maxime Devos@* +Copyright @copyright{} 2021, 2022 Maxime Devos@* Copyright @copyright{} 2021 B. Wilson@* Copyright @copyright{} 2021 Xinglu Chen@* Copyright @copyright{} 2021 Raghav Gururajan@* @@ -10127,6 +10127,25 @@ Again, the libxml2 example shows a situation where this is needed. @end table @end deftp +Some search paths are not tied by a single package but to many packages. +To reduce duplications, some of them are pre-defined in @code{(guix +search-paths)}. + +@defvr {Scheme Variable} $SSL_CERT_DIR +@defvrx {Scheme Variable} $SSL_CERT_FILE +These two search paths indicate where X.509 certificates can be found +(@pxref{X.509 Certificates}). +@end defvr + +These pre-defined search paths can be used as in the following example: + +@lisp +(package + (name "curl") + ;; some fields omitted ... + (native-search-paths (list $SSL_CERT_DIR $SSL_CERT_FILE))) +@end lisp + How do you turn search path specifications on one hand and a bunch of directories on the other hand in a set of environment variable definitions? That's the job of @code{evaluate-search-paths}. |