This did seem to build dwm, thanks. Off to the docs to learn about the differences between *buildInputs.
thanks > On Jul 8, 2015, at 15:02, Luca Bruno <[email protected]> wrote: > > Try nativeBuildInputs instead of buildInputs. > > On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 1:21 AM, James Felix Black <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, all, > > I’m enjoying my time with NixOS so far, but I’m having a devil of a time > building a patched version of the dwm window manager. I’ve been able to > successfully apply the dwm+pango patch, by adding the following to > configuration.nix: > > nixpkgs.config.dwm = { patches = let pp = pkgs.fetchurl { > url = > "http://dwm.suckless.org/patches/dwm-6.0-pango.diff";; > sha256 = > "3bd45a8b4e28258002ffa2f62f5dece7913ef476ea76e2eb6d3d85817ac8cc9e"; > }; > in > [pp]; }; > > This applies the patch correctly, but then dwm fails to build; it needs > pkgconfig, libXft, and pango in addition to the dependencies declared in the > dwm/default.nix expression. So I’ve overridden the buildInputs as such: > > environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [ > # stuff elided ... > (lib.overrideDerivation dwm (attrs: { buildInputs = attrs.buildInputs > ++ [xlibs.libXft xlibs.libXinerama pango pkgconfig]; })) > ]; > > OK, this now seems to pull in the required libraries; but now, the build > error is that the pkg_config binary (which gets called in the patched > Makefile) can’t find any of the .pc files. I’m not 100% sure how to proceed > here; I was operating under the assumption that having pkgconfig in the > buildInputs would ensure that the various paths are correctly setup in the > PKG_CONFIG_PATH. Is there something obvious I’m missing, here? > > Thanks in advance! > jfb > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > > > > -- > NixOS Linux _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
