[Nix-dev] Problem with builder #1 - nix-shell and nix-build behave differently

[Luca Bruno]

On 14/05/2015 15:58, Daniel Hlynskyi wrote:
> Then how does nix-build handle this? Is there some special hook "cd
> $sourceRoot" after unpackPhase? Why this hook is not added to nix-shell?
>
Because you may be in a different directory where nix-shell can cd
$sourceRoot? Those unpack & cd just don't apply to nix-shell.