[Nix-dev] contribute patches and support of AIX platform

[Marc Weber]

Excerpts from Olexiy Buyanskyy's message of Tue Mar 15 20:31:09 +0000 2011:
 I found solution here
> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/tividd/td/ITAME/GC32-0846-00/en_US/HTML/am39_perftune11.htm
> I had to set to complete nix-env execution without std::bad_alloc
> export LDR_CNTRL=MAXDATA=0x2000000
> This means nix-env requires at least 512Mb to parse all nix files

You can prevent it from sourcing all by using the -A path flag. Eg
nix-env -iA xorg.xserver.

See wiki article "how to find .."

Marc Weber