[Nix-dev] busybox in a buildenv

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 03:52:42PM +0100, Marc Weber wrote:
> Hi Lluís,
> 
> Excerpts from Lluís Batlle i Rossell's message of Sat Nov 20 15:43:08 +0100 2010:
> > the buildEnv fails to build a profile that only has busybox in it. And somehow
> > using nix-build -K does not leave any temporary directory. If I set busybox and
> > dropbear in the profile, it works.
> Do you have any error message which could give a hint?

Sorry. The only thing it says is that the build failed making the buildenv
derivation.
> 
> I debugged by adding print statements to the .pl file - I did so by
> editing the builder.pl file from store ..
> 
> I don't have any issues:
Strange then...
> So you should paste your log.
I'll try to, later. Thank you.

> About -K; I think it was added to allow debugging building derivations
> only. Why do you want to keep it if a build suceeds?
Here it does not succeed. This is what I meant.

Regards,
Lluís.