Hi, Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dols...@logicblox.com> skribis:
> On 03/11/12 15:24, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > >> A common problem for people trying to use Nix/Nixpkgs/Guix on non-NixOS >> distros, especially Debian derivatives, is that their /bin/sh is not >> Bash. On Debian and derivatives, it’s a symlink to /bin/dash. >> >> When building without a chroot, things eventually fail because stdenv, >> and sometimes build systems, assume that /bin/sh is Bash. > > Where does stdenv assume that /bin/sh is Bash? Everywhere. Associative arrays, etc. The main problem remains that building outside of a chroot on these distros is likely to bring a number of errors due to impurities. > A workaround would be to implement this feature request: > https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/24. This would allow /bin/sh to be > redirected to whatever you want. Yes. What about the more flexible approaches I suggested? Ludo’. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
