[Nix-dev] Re: [PATCH 1/2] t/scons

[Peter Simons]

Hi Eelco,

 > I do feel that the default path should be patched in Nixpkgs, because
 > leaving it as is causes a de facto behaviour change (SCons scripts that
 > rely on standard Unix tools in /usr/bin won't work on NixOS). However,
 > rather than setting it to the caller's $PATH (which is unpredictable), it
 > should be initialised to a deterministic build-time default, e.g.
 >
 >  "${coreutils}/bin:${gcc}/bin:..."
 >
 > That is, most of the tools provided by stdenv.

ideally, that exact list of paths would be passed to the expression as a
parameter, so that these settings can be overridden easily. That would allow
us to instantiate many different variants of scons that use different tools
by default.

Take care,
Peter