From 66c90e6e1f22b2712f0714914504dee5e751a334 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Domen=20Ko=C5=BEar?= <domen@dev.si>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 12:40:38 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] add makeBinPath function for abstracting away
 pkg/bin:pkg2/bin..

---
 lib/strings.nix | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/strings.nix b/lib/strings.nix
index bf6cbd2cbfa..ce2c4132bbc 100644
--- a/lib/strings.nix
+++ b/lib/strings.nix
@@ -52,6 +52,10 @@ rec {
   # libraries for a set of packages, e.g. "${pkg1}/lib:${pkg2}/lib:...".
   makeLibraryPath = makeSearchPath "lib";
 
+  # Construct a binary search path (such as $PATH) containing the
+  # binaries for a set of packages, e.g. "${pkg1}/bin:${pkg2}/bin:...".
+  makeBinPath = makeSearchPath "bin";
+
 
   # Idem for Perl search paths.
   makePerlPath = makeSearchPath "lib/perl5/site_perl";