[Nix-dev] update to build nautilus and compiz

[Tony White]

2009/5/27 Christoph Herbst <christoph.p.herbst at gmx.de>:
>
> 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.
>

Hi Christoph,
It seems like this maybe something someone else will know, I'm still
quite new to NixOS. Apparently, compiz does compile on NixOS, I have
never tried it but there is an existing expression for it. Are you
reusing the old expression? Maybe libtool is missing the dependency in
the expression but I couldn't say.

Anyone else able to offer any suggestions?

Hope you work it out,
Tony