Re: [Nix-dev] Nix 1.6 released

2014-03-06 Thread Vladimír Čunát
Hi. On 03/07/2014 04:18 AM, Kevin Quick wrote: I have an older NixOS installation that hadn't been updated recently. After running a channel update, I can unfortunately no longer run nix-env. Yes, it's not uncommon for people to have this problem, so it is time to create a wiki page for it, I

Re: [Nix-dev] Nix 1.6 released

2014-03-06 Thread Kevin Quick
Hi folks, I have an older NixOS installation that hadn't been updated recently. After running a channel update, I can unfortunately no longer run nix-env. I believe it to be due to the nix-channel-obtained all-packages.nix taking advantage of the new lazy with described below, but my version 1.

[Nix-dev] Missing library: zlib

2014-03-06 Thread Michael Raskin
>I routinely find myself in a situation where some build tool or >installation of software (gcc, pip, a runtime) not via a nix expression) >will fail due to not having zlib available/in scope. What would be a simple >way to prevent this annoyance? There are NIX_LDFLAGS, NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE and LD_L

[Nix-dev] Missing library: zlib

2014-03-06 Thread Thomas Bereknyei
I routinely find myself in a situation where some build tool or installation of software (gcc, pip, a runtime) not via a nix expression) will fail due to not having zlib available/in scope. What would be a simple way to prevent this annoyance? Tom On Mar 6, 2014 8:16 AM, "Asus Ceaser" wrote: > F

Re: [Nix-dev] Help creating a custom app with Nix package manager

2014-03-06 Thread Asus Ceaser
Fixed my all-packages.conf but once I run nix-build -A luakit I get the following error: building path(s) `/nix/store/lk2qcd3fvgbc7nydclh6kin8nlh52xn5-luakit-2012.09.13-r1' building /nix/store/lk2qcd3fvgbc7nydclh6kin8nlh52xn5-luakit-2012.09.13-r1 unpacking sources unpacking source archive /nix/st