[Nix-dev] /lib vs /lib64

[Luca Bruno]

/lib64 doesn't make much sense in nix. How are you building the package?
Have you enabled nix chroot builds?

On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Vincent Laporte <vincent.laporte at irisa.fr>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am using Nix on Fedora x86_64 and a clone of NixOs/nixpkgs github
> repository. When I install a package, sometimes it is built from
> sources, sometimes there is a binary version already built by hydra.
>
> There is a package that I cannot build whereas hydra succeeds. It
> depends on `nettle` and uses `pkgconfig` to find it at build time.
>
> When I build `nettle`, I get a tree like this (excerpt):
>
> /nix/store/9skwfbcv4xa41wfzsad56snc2fi2mj8j-nettle-2.7.1/
> |-- bin
> |-- include
> |-- lib64
> |   |-- libnettle.a
> |   `-- pkgconfig
> |       `-- nettle.pc
>
> However the hydra build is slightly different as can be seen at
> http://hydra.nixos.org/build/14846797/contents/1
>
> The library and `.pc` file end up in `/lib` rather than in `/lib64`.
>
> Unfortunately, `pkgconfig` does not look in `/lib64` but only in `/lib`;
> see:
>
> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/development/tools/misc/pkgconfig/setup-hook.sh
>
> What makes the builds on my machine and on hydra so different? Is it an
> issue of my configuration?
>
> Should `pkgconfig` also look into `/lib64`?
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Vincent.
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