[Nix-dev] Proposed feature for make-wrapper.sh

[Philip Carlsen]

That's great to hear - Indeed you're not the only one having trouble with
akonadi. I just gave up before I could make anything useful of it.
Den 8. maj 2016 01.24 skrev "Phil Wetzel" <phil at audido.com>:

> Greetings,
>
> I've just installed NixOS on my desktop with KDE. I had trouble getting
> akonadi working (the data backend for kdepim). I found one other person
> with
> the same problem [1], though it is hard for me to believe I am the only
> person
> trying to run KMail on NixOS.
>
> The problem turned out to be akonadi starting an instance of mysqld
> (mariadb)
> that failed to find an error messages file because it didn't know where it
> was.
> Setting the --basedir prevents this problem from occurring, and that is
> what
> is done in the service module definition. kdepim users can solve the
> problem
> locally by setting basedir in their akonadi/mysql.cf config, but if we
> would
> like it to work out of the box it seemed to me that the way forward was to
> use
> wrapProgram on mysqld. You can't actually run mysqld from the commandline
> without without the --basedir argument with it packaged the way it is now
> anyway.
>
> This turned out to not work either because:
>
>  - wrapProgram --add-flags *prepends* all the wrapped flags to the
> argument list
>  - akonadi uses the --defaults-file argument
>  - mysqld requires --defaults-file to be the first argument if it is used
>
> This can certainly be solved with some hackery after the wrapProgram in
> postInstall, but perhaps it would be better to include a --suffix-flags
> feature
> to make-wrapper.sh.
>
> What would you suggest as the better choice? I didn't want to submit a PR
> with
> a hack if that wasn't the way forward, and I definitely didn't want to
> submit a
> PR touching the build tools and documentation without at least saying hello
> first.
>
> Thank you,
> Phil Wetzel
>
> [1] -
> http://lists.science.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2015-January/015575.html
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