Re: [Nix-dev] Stdenv branch merged

2013-03-07 Thread Vladimír Čunát
On 03/07/2013 11:23 PM, Eelco Dolstra wrote: I've just merged the stdenv branch into master. This gives us Glibc 2.17 and updates to many core packages. Many thanks to all contributors! Good, I was thinking about re-asking this week about any known blocker issues. So gcc-47 is now the stde

[Nix-dev] nix-env and nixos-rebuild cannot start workers

2013-03-07 Thread Bryce L Nordgren
I just tried to update a six month old nixos distribution and ran into a wall. At one point in time, I was getting parse errors. Then I did a nix-env -i nix to get a new version of the package manager. Now it seems that no matter what I do, some file somewhere causes a "error: cannot start worker (

[Nix-dev] Stdenv branch merged

2013-03-07 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Hi, I've just merged the stdenv branch into master. This gives us Glibc 2.17 and updates to many core packages. Many thanks to all contributors! -- Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/ ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.scie

Re: [Nix-dev] Rubygems and bundler

2013-03-07 Thread Marc Weber
Excerpts from shea's message of Thu Mar 07 16:10:06 +0100 2013: > I disagree with Marc's assessment. It's not true that gems are "not at > all" handled, gem nix works perfectly well (and can do gems with native > extensions fine, see e.g. rubyLibs.ffi), and IMO Marc's overlay > solutions are ver

Re: [Nix-dev] Rubygems and bundler

2013-03-07 Thread shea
Hi Andrew, I disagree with Marc's assessment. It's not true that gems are "not at all" handled, gem nix works perfectly well (and can do gems with native extensions fine, see e.g. rubyLibs.ffi), and IMO Marc's overlay solutions are very over-complicated and unnecessary for what we actually wan

Re: [Nix-dev] Rubygems and bundler

2013-03-07 Thread Marc Weber
Excerpts from Andrew Morsillo's message of Thu Mar 07 05:18:24 +0100 2013: > I am trying to get an environment set up to run my rails application on > nixos but I am confused about how rubygems/bundler is handled. I have read It is not at all. http://gitorious.org/nixpkgs-ruby-overlay Comes close