[Nix-dev] Getting Nix to work on MacOS

[Joachim Schiele]

nothing went wrong. do you have the nix store in /nix/store? you have to
pass the nix store location when you build nix-0.16 using a command line
toggle (to ./configure) before you type 'make'.

see my blog posting about this:
http://invalidmagic.wordpress.com/2011/01/21/running-the-nix-package-manager-in-a-prefix-as-the-home-directory/

when the nix store is != /nix/store then nix uses 'source deployment' as
a fallback.

On 03/23/2012 12:18 PM, Konrad Hinsen wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I have just started to look at Nix seriously, which means first of all
> trying to get it to work. I started with nix-0.16, which I installed
> on my Mac running under MacOS X 10.6.8. No problem at all with the installation,
> and subscribing to nixpkgs-unstable seemed to work fine as well.
> 
> Then I tried
> 
>   nix-env -b -v -i hello
> 
> to get something simple installed. The package "hello" exists in binary on the
> server, so I expected this to be a quick install. What I get is a long list
> of messages "evaluation file ....", ending with
> 
>   building path(s) `/nix/store/58f4b8n6kyxvkvy77m3n23ywgk6z1ifb-user-environment'
>   created 0 symlinks in user environment
>   scanning for references inside `/nix/store/58f4b8n6kyxvkvy77m3n23ywgk6z1ifb-user-environment'
> 
> and then nothing. I can't see anything that could have been installed, but I can't find any error message either.
> 
> When I leave out the -b, nix starts building lots of packages from
> source and ultimately fails when building openssl:
> 
> cc -I. -I.. -I../include  -fPIC -fno-common -DOPENSSL_PIC -DOPENSSL_THREADS -D_REENTRANT -DDSO_DLFCN -DHAVE_DLFCN_H -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -DL_ENDIAN -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_PART_WORDS -DOPENSSL_IA32_SSE2 -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_MONT -DSHA1_ASM -DSHA256_ASM -DSHA512_ASM -DMD5_ASM -DRMD160_ASM -DAES_ASM -DWHIRLPOOL_ASM -c  -o x86cpuid.o x86cpuid.s
> x86cpuid.s:7:suffix or operands invalid for `push'
> x86cpuid.s:8:suffix or operands invalid for `push'
> x86cpuid.s:9:suffix or operands invalid for `push'
> x86cpuid.s:10:suffix or operands invalid for `push'
> x86cpuid.s:12:suffix or operands invalid for `pushf'
> x86cpuid.s:13:suffix or operands invalid for `pop'
> ...
> 
> 
> Does anyone have a suggestions how to check what went wrong, in particular with the binary installation?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>   Konrad.
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