[Nix-dev] RE: build question

[Yury G. Kudryashov]

Roelof Wobben wrote:

> Oke,
>  
> I will look into the tar and find out which to use.
> Must The package be installed in /usr/nixos/packages/  then or can I use
> the default from the sources.
>  
> I will try to make Gnome 2.32 avaible for Nixos and if I use the
> configure, make, make install I can follow the blfs manual.
In nixos/nixpkgs each package is installed to /nix/store/hash-name/. This 
location is available as $out variable during the build.

The default build script passes --prefix=$out to ./configure, so use only 
need to set configureFlags. Look at any existing package (e.g., glib, gtk) 
for example.