[Nix-dev] mxe on NixOS

[James Cook]

Thanks. Adding autoconf, automake and libtool to buildInputs for glib
and running nix-shell -A glib put be in an environment where I can
successfully run autogen.sh.

Any idea why it only works in a nix-shell instance? I have autoconf,
automake, libtool installed via nix-env.

(Andrew, are you still hoping to get this working?)

James


On 17 August 2015 at 02:07, Luca Bruno <lethalman88 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Using nix-shell -A glib is wrong if you are going to use autogen.sh, because
> autogen.sh is used to build from git not from tarball. So the glib nix
> expression does not have neither autoconf nor automake in the buildInputs
> for this reason.
>
> Put autoconf and automake in the buildInputs of the glib nix expression,
> then it should work.
>
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 6:45 AM, James Cook <james.cook at utoronto.ca> wrote:
>>
>> pkg-config is in my environment.
>>
>> If it means anything, I see the same error if I run ./autogen.sh
>> inside nix-shell -A glib (still using my manually-cloned glib).
>>
>> James
>>
>> On 16 August 2015 at 01:41, Luca Bruno <lethalman88 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sunday, August 16, 2015, James Cook <james.cook at utoronto.ca> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> To perhaps simplify the problem, does anyone know how to build glib on
>> >> a NixOS system the old-fashioned way, without using nix? If I just run
>> >> ./autogen.sh in a fresh glib checkout, I get a similar error to the
>> >> one Andrew is getting.
>> >>
>> >> A parallel question: Andrew, are you familiar enough with nixpkgs to
>> >> try writing an nix expression that unpacks mxe and tells it to build
>> >> glib? That might be another approach, though I think it would be nice
>> >> if users had the option of not doing it that way.
>> >>
>> >> $ ./autogen.sh
>> >> You don't have gtk-doc installed, and thus won't be able to generate
>> >> the documentation.
>> >> autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
>> >> autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
>> >> autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4macros ${ACLOCAL_FLAGS}
>> >> autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
>> >> autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool
>> >> autoreconf: running:
>> >> /nix/store/prmn46fajbj2ymcw43aqrdfbii1bj8bz-autoconf-2.69/bin/autoconf
>> >> --force
>> >> configure.ac:88: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_DEFINE
>> >>       If this token and others are legitimate, please use
>> >> m4_pattern_allow.
>> >>       See the Autoconf documentation.
>> >> autoreconf:
>> >> /nix/store/prmn46fajbj2ymcw43aqrdfbii1bj8bz-autoconf-2.69/bin/autoconf
>> >> failed with exit status: 1
>> >
>> >
>> > You need pkgconfig in your env.
>> >
>> >
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