[Nix-dev] update to build nautilus and compiz

[Christoph Herbst]

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 08:26:55PM +0100, Tony White wrote:
> 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


It has no explicit dependency on binutils, but i added it with the same results.
When it comes to installing, libtool complains about ranlib not found. 

regards,
Christoph.
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