Hi guys, > I’m pretty sure it would break stdenv bootstrapping on non-GNU > systems, where mkdir & co. don’t support ‘-v’.
yes, indeed. Generally, I am in favor of running cp and mkdir verbosely, but the -v option isn't portable, so depending on it in code that's run during bootstrap would be a really bad idea. Maybe the patch should be modified so that it defines alias mkdir="\mkdir -v" alias cp="\cp -v" during initialization if some DEBUG'ish kind of variable is set? Take care, Peter _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
