Hi,
> /etc/protocols is required to map names to ports and protocols by the > GNU C library. This is a serious bug in how nixos installs the GNU C > library, since the GNU C library depends on this file for > getprotobyname to work; the same goes for /etc/services. This is not > something we can fix directly on our side, other than maybe handling > it more gracefully since we simply use getprotbyname and its friends. > Just to clarify here, it is actually not a NixOS issue. NixOS does provide /etc/protocols and /etc/services. However in our Hydra buildfarm we usually build in a chroot environment where these files are not available. In general that is a good idea as it makes sure there are no hidden dependencies. Obviously sometimes you'll run into problems like we experienced now, which is a pity. However I have adapted the build expression to make it build outside chroot which has solved the problem. Thanks for the quick response. greetings, Rob -- Rob Vermaas [email] rob.verm...@gmail.com
