[Nix-dev] test suite failures when building Nix on MacOS X (was: nix channels and corresponding nix expressions)

[Marco Maggesi]

On Sep 22, 2009, at 4:07 PM, Peter Simons wrote:

> Hi,
>
>> I would like to setup a nix environment on my MacBook (MacOSX 10.5.8
>> Leopard). I compiled and installed nix successfully [...].
>
> I tried building nix-0.13pre17232 on i386-apple-darwin9.7.0, but the
> package failed with plenty of errors in the test suite. Is that a  
> known
> problem?

I have darwin 9.8.0, and everything seems to work fine.
I didn't try to run the test suite tough (unless it is
automatically done at build time and I didn't noticed).

Marco