[Nix-dev] break purity

[Teo Klestrup Röijezon]

You can set up a build environment resembling what nix-build would use
using the nix-shell command. All dependencies are provided, and each build
phase gets a function.

On 21 April 2016 at 17:42, stewart mackenzie <setori88 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've got a bunch of artifacts being built in the
> /tmp/nix-build-component_name.drv-0
>
> now I want to point the build manager, in this case cargo using the
> CARGO_TARGET_DIR env var to put the artifacts into a directory I make
> directly in the /tmp/target_${name}
>
> This way any further compilations will reuse the artifacts and they
> won't need to be rebuilt.
>
> obviously nix doesn't allow me to do this.
>
> Is there a dirty hack to allow creating and writing artifacts directly
> to /tmp/target_${name}?
>
> Why? We're using nix as a replacement for make, one major drawback is:
> every time we change a line of code the entire component + trans deps
> needs to be rebuilt. This takes a long time when transitive deps go
> deep.
>
> /sjm
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