[Nix-dev] Trouble building on debian testing

[James Cook]

Try the last comment here: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/566

If you do solve it, there's also a StackOverflow question that could
use an answer http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29495436/usr-bin-ld-cannot-find-lsqlite3

James

On 19 December 2015 at 10:14, Andrew Fraser <andy at fraserphysics.com> wrote:
> This is my first post.  I welcome pointers on appropriate format.
>
> I am trying to install nix in $HOME/nix on my debian testing box at
> home.  I'm doing it to practice for installing nix at work where I am
> not permitted to load system software.
>
> If I can resolve my problems, I will edit the wiki to explain what
> works.
>
> With the packages listed in
> https://nixos.org/wiki/How_to_install_nix_in_home_%28on_another_distribution%29#Manual_Installation
> the DBD version can't use the DBI version.  I find building the
> following collection will get configure to run:
>
> for url in \
>  https://nixos.org/releases/nix/nix-1.10/nix-1.10.tar.xz \
>  http://bzip.org/1.0.6/bzip2-1.0.6.tar.gz bzip2 \
>  http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.46.0.tar.lzma \
>  https://www.sqlite.org/2015/sqlite-autoconf-3090200.tar.gz \
>  http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/T/TI/TIMB/DBI-1.634.tar.gz \
>  http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/I/IS/ISHIGAKI/DBD-SQLite-1.46.tar.gz \
>  http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/S/SZ/SZBALINT/WWW-Curl-4.17.tar.gz
> do
> wget $url
> done
>
> This configure line runs without reporting errors:
>
>  ./configure --prefix=$HOME/nix-boot --with-store-dir=$HOME/nix/store --localstatedir=$HOME/nix/var CPPFLAGS="-I$HOME/nix-boot/include" LDFLAGS="-L$HOME/nix-boot/lib" PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$HOME/nix-boot/lib/pkgconfig
>
> However "make" fails with the following at the end:
>
> LD     src/libstore/libnixstore.so
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lsqlite3
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lbz2
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lcurl
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> mk/lib.mk:102: recipe for target 'src/libstore/libnixstore.so' failed
> make: *** [src/libstore/libnixstore.so] Error 1
>
> Thanks for any pointers,
>
> Andy
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