[Nix-dev] Re: Re: ghc build on CentOS fails

[Yury G. Kudryashov]

Alexy Khrabrov wrote:

A: No.
Q: Should I use top-posting?

>>> Tried building ghc on CentOS yesterday, got breakage as patch was not
>>> satisfied; it also tried to build perl.  I have a prefix portage (gentoo
>>> prefix) there already; does it confuse nix when determining binary
>>> packages?
>> Could you please send more information, including exact commands and log
>> messages?
> Sorry for messing up your threads! :)  The console log is in
> 
> http://paste.pocoo.org/show/225495/
> 
> I've reinstalled with default ./configure and use unstable packages per
> Quick Start.  I run from /opt/portage/startprefix, so it's not detecting
> CentOS I guess.  How does it know to load a binary?

Which binary? It failed to download patch-*.tar.gz because it have been 
removed from alpha.gnu.org?. Have you added nixpkgs-unstable channel? It 
shouldn't try to build so much.