[Nix-dev] Re: RHEL5 Issues re-visited.

[Peter Simons]

Hi Jeevakan,

I tried installing Nix on a Linux/x86 system using your patches. The good news
is that everything compiles fine. The build errors I observed on x86_64 didn't
occur. The bad news is, however, that building with Red Hat's kernel headers
doesn't fix the RHEL5-related problems. For example, attempts to access a
network-mounted drive still fail with an inexplicable "error 550", etc. It
seems that Glibc 2.7 and Coreutils 6.12 just don't work on RHEL5 -- whether you
build them with Red Hat's kernel headers or the pristine ones doesn't make a
difference. So far, the only reliable way to install Nix on RHEL5 that I'm
aware of is to downgrade those packages to older versions.

Take care,
Peter