From f469a69b439a76e1e54aa52516ef8808a8724602 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:04:58 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Explicitly provide a nix system string when building
 nixUnstable.hostDrv for gnu

svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=30459
---
 pkgs/top-level/release-cross.nix | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/release-cross.nix b/pkgs/top-level/release-cross.nix
index b5ab32cbf69..536cfb81d58 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/release-cross.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/release-cross.nix
@@ -176,6 +176,7 @@ let
     platform = pkgs.platforms.pc;
     libc = "glibc";
     openssl.system = "hurd-x86";  # Nix depends on OpenSSL.
+    nix.system = "i686-gnu"; # Hack until nix is more cross-compile aware
   };
 in {
   crossGNU = mapTestOnCross crossSystem {