The Firefox issue turned into https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/1868, which was closed when it was decided a wrapper that sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH could fix it. Should the issue get re-opened? Was that never implemented, or does it not solve the problem?
James On 4 June 2015 at 15:10, Adrien Devresse <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I triggered this failure (http://pastebin.com/Lw6a0p4J) while trying to > use nix on a RHEL 6.5 configuration setup with ldap authentication ( > sssd + libnss_sss ). > > After a bit of research, this is due to the dependency of git on > getpwuid and to the fact that the nix glibc do not have by default > libnss_sss nor can use the one of the host operating system. > > > The problem has already been reported in case of firefox ( > https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/209 ). > > However, it is way more harmful in case of git/fetchgit : it makes > impossible to compile any expression using fetchgit on a host using > sssd, which is a configuration unfortunatly quite common in the academic > world . > > What would be the best solution of this problem ? Is there any other > solution than extending stdenv with libnss_sss and recompiling the > entire software stack ? > > > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
