[Nix-dev] New undeclared dependency for Nix itself?

[Daniel Peebles]

Run configurePhase, not ./configure. You'll find that we pass quite a few things in through $confgureFlags and just typing ./configure loses those. Something similar bit me the other day, but the readme does say to write configurePhase.

> On Apr 2, 2016, at 06:06, ml.software at leenaa.rs wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I wanted to see what the status was of FreeBSD support (basically
> because I a jail running that needed some new software and I'd like
> Nix to manage the dependencies), and noticed something unexpected:
> 
> 1) I clone the Nix git repository from https://github.com/NixOS/nix
> 2) I execute ./bootstrap.sh and then ./configure
> 3) it fails on something that is not officially listed as a
> dependency [http://nixos.org/nix/manual/#sec-building-source]:
> 
>    [...]
>    checking for LIBLZMA... no
>    configure: error: Package requirements (liblzma) were not met:
> 
> Of course I tried to go around it by installing 
> 
> /usr/ports/archivers/lzmalib
> /usr/ports/archivers/lzma
> 
> But that didn't help. Is this a new dependency? If so, can someone
> point to what *exactly* it is that is needed? 
> 
> Best,
> Michiel
> 
> 
> 
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