[Nix-dev] Can't get anything to build on Mac OS X

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> Michael Sperber <sperber at deinprogramm.de> writes:

> I'm (still) running Mavericks, and just pulled from github.  I ran against
> these problems:

> - A large number of packages have indirect dependencies on Kerberos, which
> by default is set to be Heimdal - which is marked broken on Mac OS X.  I did
> this, which allowed me to proceed:

I ran into the heimdal issues yesterday, and created the following issue to
document them:

    https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/5512

Using krb5 didn't work for me, but then I'm on Yosemite.

>   Or should I just give up here and move to the pure, clang-based branch?

We'd welcome your testing. :)

John