Issue in nixpkgs: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/4855
On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Eelco Dolstra <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On 28/02/15 19:10, Michael Alan Dorman wrote: > > > I have a plugin for calibre I would like to use that requires pycrypto. > > I looked at the derivation for calibre, and it seemed to me that it > > would be sufficient to override it thusly: > > > > calibre = pkgs.stdenv.lib.overrideDerivation pkgs.calibre (o: { > > buildInputs = o.buildInputs ++ [ pythonPackages.pycrypto ]; > > }); > > Try this: > > calibre = pkgs.lib.overrideDerivation pkgs.calibre (o: { > nativeBuildInputs = o.nativeBuildInputs ++ [ > pkgs.pythonPackages.pycrypto ]; > }); > > This is necessary due to the confusing handling of buildInputs and > nativeBuildInputs in mkDerivation: when not doing a cross-build, > buildInputs is > passed to the builder via the $nativeBuildInputs environment variable, and > $buildInputs is empty. It would be better if this remapping were done in > the > builder itself so that overrideDerivation would work as expected. > > -- > Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/ > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >
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