[Nix-dev] Re: Darwin stdenv broken

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hallo,

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

> Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>
>> The Darwin stdenv appears to be broken, as can be seen at:
>> http://hydra.nixos.org/build/45308 .  It lacks libstdc++ and GNU Patch,
>> at least.
>
> Yes, we're trying to update GCC in the Darwin stdenv.  Unfortunately that turns
> out to be quite hard.  Among other things, the gcc source distribution from
> Darwin no longer contains libstdc++.  There are some separate libstdc++ packages
> in Darwin, but it's not clear how to build them (and they mysteriously contain a
> complete copy of the GCC 4.0 source tarball...).  Working on it...

Apple's forked GCC has always been a pain for everyone...

Ludo'.