On 31/12/2014 11:19, Bjørn Forsman wrote: > On 31 December 2014 at 11:42, Ganesh Sittampalam <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> https://nixos.org/wiki/Howto_develop_software_on_nixos talks about >> including stdenv in a myEnvFun environment to get gcc etc. >> >> However gcc and a bunch of other standard build tools don't seem to be >> part of stdenv any more: >> >> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/328f7a621e0e2c37159e4cdd86fa279417fa3b9e >> >> ["stdenv: Remove propagatedUserEnvPkgs >> Stdenv is not really intended as an installable package. Nowadays it's >> much better to use "nix-shell -p" to get a build environment."] >> >> Is that wiki page out of date now? Is there a new recommended way of >> getting the build tools into a myEnvFun environment now? > > I can think of a couple of ways: > > - include gcc etc. in buildInputs > - use nix-shell instead of myEnvFun (like the commit message suggests)
Thanks - using gcc+binutils in buildInputs works fine for me. Should I update the wiki page to note that you shouldn't use stdenv in myEnvFun any more? Cheers, Ganesh _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
