[Nix-dev] Debugging callPackage builds?

Anand Patil anand.prabhakar.patil at gmail.com
Fri Feb 26 16:11:34 CET 2016


Never mind, figured it out: nix-shell ./nixpkgs -A
packages.haskell.compiler.ghcjs . I was confused because nix-shell
./nixpkgs/pkgs/development/compilers/ghcjs was complaining that it didn't
have default values for all the arguments.

Anand

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 7:18 PM Anand Patil <anand.prabhakar.patil at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm trying to debug
> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/development/compilers/ghcjs/default.nix ,
> which is a callPackage-style Nix function that expects lots of arguments.
> Is there a quick way to get a nix-shell or other type of debugging
> environment for such a package?
>
> Thanks,
> Anand
>
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