[Nix-dev] $out in configureFlags is not expanded

[Vladimír Čunát]

On 05/19/2013 12:05 PM, Bjørn Forsman wrote:
> On 19 May 2013 09:37, Lluís Batlle i Rossell <viric at viric.name> wrote:
>> On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 07:11:32PM +0200, Bjørn Forsman wrote:
>>>     preConfigure = ''configureFlags="--foo=$out/etc/foo.cfg"'';
>>
>> That's what we all end up doing. :)
>
> Hehe, Ok I see :-)
>
> But how about "eval configureFlags=$configureFlags" (or something like
> that) in the builder? Wouldn't it solve this issue?

I'm not sure if this would preserve spaces as they were before, but on 
the whole I think it would be better to expand vars in configureFlags.

Vlada


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