From 02c09e01712ce0b61e5c8f7159047699a434f7fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Malakhovski <oxij@oxij.org>
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2018 15:26:51 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] cc-wrapper, bintools-wrapper: simply symlink man and info
 outputs

See discussion in #44516.
---
 pkgs/build-support/bintools-wrapper/default.nix | 12 ++++++------
 pkgs/build-support/cc-wrapper/default.nix       |  9 +++++----
 pkgs/stdenv/darwin/default.nix                  |  1 -
 pkgs/stdenv/linux/default.nix                   |  1 -
 4 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/bintools-wrapper/default.nix b/pkgs/build-support/bintools-wrapper/default.nix
index 2048220361a..7cbe56bdd65 100644
--- a/pkgs/build-support/bintools-wrapper/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/build-support/bintools-wrapper/default.nix
@@ -6,9 +6,10 @@
 # compiler and the linker just "work".
 
 { name ? ""
-, stdenvNoCC, nativeTools, propagateDoc ? !nativeTools, noLibc ? false, nativeLibc, nativePrefix ? ""
-, bintools ? null, libc ? null
-, coreutils ? null, shell ? stdenvNoCC.shell, gnugrep ? null
+, stdenvNoCC
+, bintools ? null, libc ? null, coreutils ? null, shell ? stdenvNoCC.shell, gnugrep ? null
+, nativeTools, noLibc ? false, nativeLibc, nativePrefix ? ""
+, propagateDoc ? !nativeTools && bintools != null && bintools ? man
 , extraPackages ? [], extraBuildCommands ? ""
 , buildPackages ? {}
 , useMacosReexportHack ? false
@@ -267,9 +268,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
       ## Man page and info support
       ##
 
-      mkdir -p $man/nix-support $info/nix-support
-      printWords ${bintools.man or ""} >> $man/nix-support/propagated-build-inputs
-      printWords ${bintools.info or ""} >> $info/nix-support/propagated-build-inputs
+      ln -s ${bintools.man} $man
+      ln -s ${bintools.info} $info
     ''
 
     + ''
diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/cc-wrapper/default.nix b/pkgs/build-support/cc-wrapper/default.nix
index b9828c941ed..8928d1643c8 100644
--- a/pkgs/build-support/cc-wrapper/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/build-support/cc-wrapper/default.nix
@@ -6,8 +6,10 @@
 # compiler and the linker just "work".
 
 { name ? ""
-, stdenvNoCC, nativeTools, propagateDoc ? !nativeTools, noLibc ? false, nativeLibc, nativePrefix ? ""
+, stdenvNoCC
 , cc ? null, libc ? null, bintools, coreutils ? null, shell ? stdenvNoCC.shell
+, nativeTools, noLibc ? false, nativeLibc, nativePrefix ? ""
+, propagateDoc ? !nativeTools && cc != null && cc ? man
 , extraPackages ? [], extraBuildCommands ? ""
 , isGNU ? false, isClang ? cc.isClang or false, gnugrep ? null
 , buildPackages ? {}
@@ -261,9 +263,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
       ## Man page and info support
       ##
 
-      mkdir -p $man/nix-support $info/nix-support
-      printWords ${cc.man or ""}  >> $man/nix-support/propagated-build-inputs
-      printWords ${cc.info or ""}  >> $info/nix-support/propagated-build-inputs
+      ln -s ${cc.man} $man
+      ln -s ${cc.info} $info
     ''
 
     + ''
diff --git a/pkgs/stdenv/darwin/default.nix b/pkgs/stdenv/darwin/default.nix
index 22dd700b2dd..9b792b862b1 100644
--- a/pkgs/stdenv/darwin/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/stdenv/darwin/default.nix
@@ -88,7 +88,6 @@ in rec {
         extraPackages = lib.optional (libcxx != null) libcxx;
 
         nativeTools  = false;
-        propagateDoc = false;
         nativeLibc   = false;
         inherit buildPackages coreutils gnugrep bintools;
         libc         = last.pkgs.darwin.Libsystem;
diff --git a/pkgs/stdenv/linux/default.nix b/pkgs/stdenv/linux/default.nix
index ef46bdeb213..329ce6066be 100644
--- a/pkgs/stdenv/linux/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/stdenv/linux/default.nix
@@ -90,7 +90,6 @@ let
              else lib.makeOverridable (import ../../build-support/cc-wrapper) {
           name = "${name}-gcc-wrapper";
           nativeTools = false;
-          propagateDoc = false;
           nativeLibc = false;
           buildPackages = lib.optionalAttrs (prevStage ? stdenv) {
             inherit (prevStage) stdenv;