[Nix-dev] Merging the stdenv branch

[Mathijs Kwik]

I wanted to fix gw6c for the stdenv branch (by replacing it with
gogoclient, which is the maintained fork of gw6c).

However, I run into a few issues when building my system from stdenv
branch, and they are not in your problem-list:
They seem to be related to using a 3.2 kernel. For some packages, I
need to create symlinks from 3.2 (and probably 3.1, 3.3 and every
future 3.x) to 2.6 build files/dirs. The nss package for example.

Other packages fail indirectly too.
For example kdeadmin cannot find pykde4 (which itself built fine) and
bails out with an error about DLFCN. I tracked it down and found this:
http://forums.funtoo.org/viewtopic.php?id=674
There too, it boils down to python not being able to handle 3.x kernel
major/minor change.
Gentoo has a workaround that just copies linux-2 to linux-3 for python.
I haven't tried it (it will take all day to build everything on top of
that again) yet.

I know the official kernel is still 2.6.35, but I'm sure a lot of
users use 3.0+.
Please test building the stdenv-upgrade branch with a 3.x kernel
before merging it to trunk. It will reveal more problematic packages
to add to the list that make you want to postpone merging it a bit.


Mathijs



On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Eelco Dolstra
<eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to merge the stdenv branch soon.  The main changes are that GCC is
> updated to 4.6 and Glibc is updated to 2.13.  There are a number of packages
> that are still broken in the branch (compared to the trunk).  Here is a list:
>
>  http://nixos.org/~eelco/stdenv.txt
>
> Most of these are not very critical.  But if you care about any of them, please
> see if you can fix them in the next few days.
>
> --
> Eelco Dolstra | http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/
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