[Nix-dev] Making stdenv/setup.sh more verbose
Peter Simons
simons at cryp.to
Sat Jan 21 15:16:16 CET 2012
Hi guys,
> I’m pretty sure it would break stdenv bootstrapping on non-GNU
> systems, where mkdir & co. don’t support ‘-v’.
yes, indeed. Generally, I am in favor of running cp and mkdir verbosely,
but the -v option isn't portable, so depending on it in code that's run
during bootstrap would be a really bad idea. Maybe the patch should be
modified so that it defines
alias mkdir="\mkdir -v"
alias cp="\cp -v"
during initialization if some DEBUG'ish kind of variable is set?
Take care,
Peter
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