>>I'm completely new to Nix so I apologize in advance if this is not the >>right place. >>I installed NixOs yesterday and I needed a recent version of Julia >>(julialang.org) and figured it would be a good way to try out Nix. >> >>Here is a patch to nixpkgs that brings julia to today's git >>(ea277f39ebdf730aabfc422af66e911288380921) and its dependencies to the >>needed version (liblapack:3.4.2, suitesparse:4.2.0, openblas:0.2.6). >>Can someone have a look ? > > Did you try to make at least libunwind taken from the dependencies? > Julia has many dependencies and wants to build them itself, but for some > of them I managed to make Julia take prebuilt ones. If you tried and > failed to use prebuilt versions of libunwind (and maybe suitesparse), > I won't try to change it; otherwise it seems worth it to try. > > > Yes those fetchurl are my mistake and weren't used in the build anyway. I've however made it to use_system_mpfr and removed the useless fetchs (including the pcre source one which doesn't seem used). To do so I had to bump the mpfr version to 3.1.2. Patch attached. I'll be sure to setup a github fork soon.
Regards, Oscar
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