Hi, Jeevakan Suresh wrote:
> I was trying to add django to nix, and ran into a problem in the > 'generic' setup.sh > > After we unpack the source, we try to make them writable - this doesn't > quote the '$sourceRoot' variable. Which means any files with spaces > break the build. I fear that there are lots of places in stdenv where we don't handle filenames with spaces properly. The Unix shell is kind of broken that way :-) > The patch to fix this is straightforward (included below) however the > effects of such a change is far-reaching - it would cause *everything* > to rebuild (which I think is bad). Thanks, I've committed this in the stdenv-branch (https://svn.nixos.org/repos/nix/nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates), which is the place where we collect these far-reaching changes so that we can merge them into the trunk periodically. However, it is possible to use a new version of the stdenv setup script for specific packages by saying myPackage = import ... { stdenv = overrideSetup stdenv ../path/to/new/setup/script; }; in all-packages.nix. And actually there is a stdenvNew in all-packages.nix that uses stdenv/generic/setup-new.sh, which is basically a branch of setup.sh containing changes like yours. -- Eelco Dolstra | http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/ _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
