[Nix-dev] ./configure && make && make install

[Peter Simons]

Hi Sergey,

 >   unpack-the-tarball && ./configure && make && make install
 >
 > doesn't work in nixos because of missing /usr/include and /usr/lib.

a fairly simple solution is to create a Nix profile that contains all
the standard libraries (glibc, openssl, coreutils, etc.) and to
configure environment variables C_INCLUDE_PATH, LIBRARY_PATH, etc. so
that they point into that profile. This means that gcc is going to find
all those components automatically, so ./configure is usually going to
work fine.

Take care,
Peter