[Nix-dev] stdenv.mkDerivation and cmake

[Alexander Foremny]

Thank you for your response. Where can I read up on the use of
setupHook? Judging from cmake's Nix expression, where setupHook is set
to a shell script, I would assume that this was only changing cmake's
build. Especially since a grep on stdenv only shows an unrelated use
of setupHook.

> find ./pkgs/stdenv -name '*.nix* -exec grep -H -i setupHook '{}' \;
> stdenv/mingw/pkgs/default.nix:      setupHook = ../../../development/tools/misc/pkgconfig/setup-hook.sh;

Is there some magic going on with setupHook?

However, I figured I can set

> dontUseCmakeConfigure = true;

in my Nix expression. Is this the way to go here? The build process
for XBMC is essentially

> ./bootstrap
> ./configure
> make
> make install

but cmake is being used internally.

Regards,
Alexander Foremny

2012/7/25 Lluís Batlle i Rossell <viric at viric.name>:
> Hello,
>
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 10:42:55AM +0200, Alexander Foremny wrote:
>> I am currently working on a Nix expression for XBMC [1] and
>> encountered some oddities. The first one is that including cmake as
>> buildInput somehow changes the build process.
>
> Sure. Check how the cmake derivation has a setup-hook.
>