[Nix-dev] update to build nautilus and compiz

[Tony White]

2009/5/26 Christoph Herbst <christoph.p.herbst at gmx.de>:
>
> Hello,
>
> The attached patch adds libunique in order to build nautilus
> successfully. Now nautilus compiles, but after a few seconds it
> terminates because of a missing gconfd running.
>
> Then I read that compiz also needs a gconfd, so I tried to install that
> which failed on compilation of libsoup which in turn requires
> libproxy.
> So this patch also adds libproxy under development/libraries/libproxy
> to be able to compile libsoup.
> This works now, but compiz still failes to compile when it comes to
> libgweather.
> This library needs timezone data installed.
>
> I had a look on this and it seems that timezone needs two packages,
> one for the data and one for the code.
> For me this looks like it wont fit very good in the nix build process,
> where every package has exactly one source.
> Any ideas would be appreciated.
>
> best regards,
> Christoph Herbst.
>
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Hi Christoph,
You've made me curious now because according to the manual :


time.timeZone

The time zone used when displaying times and dates.

Default: "CET"

Example: "America/New_York"


So is that setting not using tzdata? (zoneinfo.)
http://linux.maruhn.com/sec/zoneinfo.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoneinfo#Use_in_software_systems

So do you have the timezone set in configuration.nix?
Does anyone know if it would make any difference (Is tzdata being used?)

Thanks,
Tony