[Nix-dev] Re: [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - 13834 - ludo - nixpkgs/trunk/pkgs/servers/x11/xorg

Ludovic Courtès ludo at gnu.org
Tue Jan 27 19:44:14 CET 2009


Hi,

Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra at tudelft.nl>
writes:

> Please note that this is a generated file.  If you change it manually, the
> changes will likely be lost the next time someone regenerates it.  Instead you
> should change (in this case) "extra.list" and run
>
>   cat tarballs-7.4.list extra.list old.list \
>   | perl ./generate-expr-from-tarballs.pl

Right, I hadn't noticed it.

The thing is, Pixman now needs Perl as an additional dependency.  The
`generate-expr-from-tarballs' script infers dependencies from `.pc.in'
files, but Perl is not listed in there for Pixman.  Should I shamelessly
special-case Pixman in the script?

Thanks,
Ludo'.




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