[Nix-dev] Merging stdenv-updates soon?

[James Cook]

On 27 August 2013 05:55, Vladimír Čunát <vcunat at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 08/27/2013 02:36 PM, Eelco Dolstra wrote:
>>
>> On 08/27/2013 09:24 AM, Vladimír Čunát wrote:
>>>
>>> The whole darwin is broken because of failing perl. However, I can see
>>> no error in the log (except that "the build failed"). Could it be a
>>> random transient problem? I have no machine to try it.
>>
>>
>> Near the top:
>>
>> sed: -i: No such file or directory
>
>
> Ah, thanks. So it's the postPatch phase, but I don't see what's the problem,
> nor why it should be different than on Linux platforms.

I have seen this before on FreeBSD.  The issue was that BSD sed
expects a suffix after -i, but Linux sed is happy with -i on its own.
Probably Darwin's stdenv uses the Darwin's sed.