On 22 April 2015 at 08:46, Nikolay Amiantov <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > With recent patches for build-fhs-*env in master it's now possible to > (ab)use FHS userenv infrastructure to work with the Android source tree. > It's, as can be imagined, an enormous (~20 GB!) pile of source code > together with dynamically-linked binaries and Makefiles/scripts ridden > with assumptions about OS directory structure and installed packages. > It's very hard to patch and clean this tree of assumptions everywhere, > and if done it would be very hard to maintain. Instead with Nix > expression like [1] you can quickly and conveniently get into an > FHS-compatible environment that the tree likes with just `nix-shell`. I > imagine there might be other situations when this quick-and-dirty > measure can be quite useful (running games distributed as .tar.gz?). > > [1]: http://pastebin.com/heqGBMzL > > -- > Nikolay.
Thanks. This sounds very useful! James _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
