Hi, So a bit like the installCheckPhase but with more structure?
On Sun, 19 Jun 2016, 12:10 Thomas Hunger, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > One problem I encounter not very often, but often enough to be annoyed by > it is that binaries build successfully but don't actually run due to some > missing run time dependency ( template, LD_PRELOAD, a dependency that > should have been in propagatedBuildInputs, ..) > > We have a "Tested execution of all binary files" entry in our PR templates > - how about we formalize it with an optional extra build step in [1]? > > It could look like this: > > binaryRunChecks = [ > { run = "bin/totem --help"; prefix = "Usage:\n totem [OPTION…]"; } > ]; > > binaryRunChecks = [ > { run = "bin/ipython --help"; prefix = "=========\n > IPython\n========="; } > ... > ]; > > The idea is that checking a prefix of the output is almost always good > enough to know whether a program can be run. > > I think this is pretty easy technically but does require a full rebuild. > > What do you think? > > ~ > > [1] > > https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/stdenv/generic/setup.sh#L823 > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >
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