[Nix-dev] Re: Solaris support

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

stdenvNative (attribute path in nixpkgs) means using as stdenv programs
available in the OS /usr.

I think Ludovic refers to stdenvLinux in his explanation, calling it 'native
stdenv'.

Regards,
Lluís.

On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 11:08:51PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The “native” stdenv means building the whole operating system (kernel
> excluded), which is indeed a lot of software packages.
> 
> Currently Nixpkgs’s native stdenv works only on GNU/Linux (i.e., glibc,
> GNU Coreutils, etc.) and it can cross-build GNU/Hurd.
> 
> For Solaris, you’d have to package its own libc and kernel headers, to
> start with (rather OpenSolaris, since Solaris is proprietary IIUC.)  You
> could try GNU/kOpenSolaris, which would save you the need to package
> another libc, and may also avoid portability issues:
> 
>   http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~dtbartle/opensolaris/
> 
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
> 
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