nixpkgs manual: mention preferLocalBuild and enableParallelBuilding
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</variablelist>
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<variablelist>
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<title>Variables affecting build properties</title>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>enableParallelBuilding</varname></term>
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<listitem><para>If set, <literal>stdenv</literal> will pass specific
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flags to <literal>make</literal> and other build tools to enable
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parallel building with up to <literal>build-cores</literal>
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workers.</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>preferLocalBuild</varname></term>
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<listitem><para>If set, specifies that the package is so lightweight
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in terms of build operations (e.g. write a text file from a Nix string
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to the store) that there's no need to look for it in binary caches --
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it's faster to just build it locally. It also tells Hydra and other
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facilities that this package doesn't need to be exported in binary
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caches (noone would use it, after all).</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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</section>
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