[Nix-dev] [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - r27832 - nix/trunk/src/libexpr

[Eelco Dolstra]

On 11/06/2011 11:56 PM, Shea Levy wrote:

> On 7/18/11 7:31 PM, Eelco Dolstra wrote:
>>    This is not finished yet.  There is not yet an easy way to refer to
>>    non-default outputs in Nix expressions.  Also, mutually recursive
>>    outputs aren't detected yet and cause the garbage collector to
>>    crash.
> 
> What do you mean by this? 

That such a build result should be detected and rejected as illegal.  Cycles
aren't useful anyway so disallowing them is no big loss.

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