Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 06:00:36PM +0400, Yury G. Kudryashov wrote: >> Eelco Dolstra wrote: >> >>> + mkdir -pv $out/bin >> >>> + cp -v "$@" $out/bin >> > >> > This actually made me wonder why we have an "installBin" function in >> > stdenv. It doesn't appear to be used anywhere in Nixpkgs... >> Then we can remove this function. > > It may be useful in writing short mkDerivations for those who have scripts > in nix expressions, instead of ~/bin or so. > > I didn't know it, though. On Linux (have no time to check portability) you can use $ install -m 755 -D $source $out/bin/$name And installBin expands to two lines of code anyway. -- Yury G. Kudryashov, mailto: [email protected]
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