On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 1:48 AM, Bjørn Forsman <bjorn.fors...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 23 January 2017 at 03:56, Thomas Tuegel <ttue...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Generally, one needs to run all the preceding phases, even in nix-shell. > > That's unfortunate. I mean, it's surprising to me that qmake won't > work in a nix-shell unless running some hook first. It was my > understanding that tools typically work in nix-shell simply because of > the environment variables that are (automatically) set.
I agree, this is not great. There are a few environment variables that qmake respects, but most of its configuration must be specified through a file. (It's not a very well-behaved program; one can't even change the location of the config file!) For some reason I don't recall at the moment, that file should be created after all setup hooks have run; that's how it ended up in preConfigure and not in qmakeHook's setup hook, where it would run automatically. I'm not pleased with the situation, but I don't see how to do better at the moment. :-\ Best, Tom _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
