I'm writing a local (non-nixpkgs) derivation, and I'd like to replace the default "gcc" to be a patched gcc6 - also for all implicit dependencies in nixpkgs. Is it possible to do that (I assume via overlays and resulting fixpoint)? If yes, how should I write this to work?
For background: I want to cross-compile the Linux kernel (actually, a fork - L4Linux) to a new target platform. But setting `crossSystem` seems to trigger rebuilding of gcc, which crashes on me because of OOM killer on genattrtab. This I believe could be mitigated by a Nov'2016 patch to gcc ( https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/695293/), so I believe I need to have it incorporated into default gcc. This I hope would let me overcome the "out of memory" obstacle, so that I could go back to hacking on my main task... When fixing this, I would much prefer not to have to fork whole nixpkgs, if feasible. I suppose maintaining a nixpkgs fork is harder, and also sharing sounds not so simple then as in the basic case of a single .nix file? I'd be grateful for any help. Thanks, /Mateusz.
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