A while ago I wrote a wrapper around nix-shell that helps with running the build steps in correct manner and order (among with other niceties like automatically creating a temporary build directory and making $out point to a path in /tmp/): https://github.com/dezgeg/nix-debug-shell
I mainly wrote it for debugging build steps for existing packages, but I guess the same ideas/code could be used for local development as well. It is rigorously undocumented, so here's a short primer: in a nixpkgs tree, run /path/to/nix-debug-shell -A hello. That places you under /tmp/nds-build-hello/hello-2.10 with the sources unpacked. Run 'nd-step' as many times you want to step through the build phases (it's named after the 'step' command in GDB). When installPhase is done, it installs to /tmp/, e.g. /tmp/nds-install-hello/bin/hello. Hope anyone finds this useful. 2017-03-17 21:26 GMT+02:00 Profpatsch <m...@profpatsch.de>: > On 17-03-17 06:04pm, Volth wrote: >> "nix-shell" would be a super option here if it could handle >> "installPhase" (this seems easy to fix) and .nix files less trivial >> than "hello.nix" (this seems not easy to fix; for example "nix-shell >> '<nixpkgs>' -A linux_4_4" has no "configurePhase", and there are >> similar problems with almost every of the big projects; nix-shell >> launches "make" when "nix-build" launches "cmake" or vice-versa, etc) > > That’s a pretty common stumbling block. > > If someone defines his own `installPhase` for example, > the `installPhase` shell function is just the standard > stdenv `installPhase`. What you want to call is rather > the contents of `$installPhase` (the variable), since > that contains the phase you defined in `mkDerivation`. > > nix-shell > $ unpackPhase > unpacking … > $ configurePhase > configuring … > $ buildPhase > … > $ $installPhase > running your installPhase > > > There is not much abstraction. Every nix attribute within > `derivation` (and by extension `mkDerivation`) will end up > as a bash shell variable in your shell (and your build env). > > -- > Proudly written in Mutt with Vim on NixOS. > Q: Why is this email five sentences or less? > A: http://five.sentenc.es > May take up to five days to read your message. If it’s urgent, call me. > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
