Re: [Nix-dev] Merging ‘stdenv-updates’ on Jan. 20th

[Lluís Batlle]

Hello,
having fixed the nixos evaluation, we have the evidence that we still
have to fix more packages:
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/225514

Volunteers welcome.

2010/1/14 Ludovic Courtès <ludo at gnu.org>:
> Hello Nixers!
>
> After discussion with the guilty parties on #nixos, we agreed on merging
> ‘stdenv-updates’ into ‘trunk’ next week, hopefully by Wednesday 20th.
>
> This means we’re entering some sort of a “freeze period” on that branch,
> leaving a bit of time to fix issues such as the one listed below.
>
> I recommend checking whether the packages you’re maintaining or
> interested in build fine on that branch:
>
>  http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixpkgs/stdenv
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
>
>>   - Bash 4.1 fails to build on Cygwin
>>     (http://hydra.nixos.org/build/206156).
>>
>>   - The dependencies of GCC 4.4 fail to build on non-GNU platforms
>>     (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.nixos/2382).
>>
>>   - The BSD ports suffer from not using GNU Coreutils, notably because
>>     some builders use GNU-specific options (e.g., ‘cp -v’,
>>     http://hydra.nixos.org/build/205890/nixlog/1/tail).  So currently no
>>     BSD port works.
>
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