[Nix-dev] update to build nautilus and compiz

[Tony White]

2009/5/27 Christoph Herbst <christoph.p.herbst at gmx.de>:
> Hello Tony,
>
> it seams that you are right.
> The time zone information is included in the glibc package.
> Thanks for the hint.
> Now libgweather compiles, but I ran into a different issue:
> When compiling compiz, at some point it complains about not finding
> ranlib, even though it was used before.
>
> regards,
> Christoph.
>
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 01:51:36AM +0100, Tony White wrote:
>> 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
>

Hi Christoph,
Is the compiz expression including binutils or ranlib as a dependency?

Thanks,
Tony