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Bazel is a build tool, much like Make and many others. Like Make, it should be agnostic to the compiler toolchains the user brings into scope. Bazel has special rules that encode domain specific knowledge for how to compile a C++ program, or indeed a Java program and a few others. But that's not to say that at runtime Bazel should assume a specific C++ compiler or Java compiler anymore than Make does. The main impact of this change is that packages that build with Bazel will have to list the compilers they want in their `buildInputs` or similar, rather than relying on the `bazel` package pulling them in transitively.
Nixpkgs is a collection of packages for the Nix package manager. It is periodically built and tested by the Hydra build daemon as so-called channels. To get channel information via git, add nixpkgs-channels as a remote:
% git remote add channels git://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels.git
For stability and maximum binary package support, it is recommended to maintain
custom changes on top of one of the channels, e.g. nixos-18.03 for the latest
release and nixos-unstable for the latest successful build of master:
% git remote update channels
% git rebase channels/nixos-18.03
For pull-requests, please rebase onto nixpkgs master.
NixOS Linux distribution source code is located inside
nixos/ folder.
- NixOS installation instructions
- Documentation (Nix Expression Language chapter)
- Manual (How to write packages for Nix)
- Manual (NixOS)
- Community maintained wiki
- Continuous package builds for unstable/master
- Continuous package builds for 18.03 release
- Tests for unstable/master
- Tests for 18.03 release
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