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diff --git a/gnu/packages/gcc.scm b/gnu/packages/gcc.scm index a39ac3b84c..c74477aed9 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/gcc.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/gcc.scm @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ ;;; Copyright © 2018, 2020 Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> ;;; Copyright © 2020 Joseph LaFreniere <joseph@lafreniere.xyz> ;;; Copyright © 2020 Guy Fleury Iteriteka <gfleury@disroot.org> +;;; Copyright © 2020 Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> ;;; ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix. ;;; @@ -759,7 +760,16 @@ as the 'native-search-paths' field." (for-each delete-file (find-files (string-append (assoc-ref outputs "out") "/bin") ".*(c\\+\\+|cpp|g\\+\\+|gcov|gcc|gcc-.*)")) - #t)))))))) + #t)))))) + (synopsis "GCC library generating machine code on-the-fly at runtime") + (description + "This package is part of the GNU Compiler Collection and provides an +embeddable library for generating machine code on-the-fly at runtime. This +shared library can then be dynamically-linked into bytecode interpreters and +other such programs that want to generate machine code on-the-fly at run-time. +It can also be used for ahead-of-time code generation for building standalone +compilers. The just-in-time (jit) part of the name is now something of a +misnomer."))) (define-public gccgo-4.9 |