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Creating a new static stdenv
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When Nix is ported to a new (Linux) platform and you want to have a completely
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pure setup for the stdenv (for example for NixOS) it is necessary to rebuild
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the static tools.
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The challenge is that there is no Nix environment yet, for bootstrapping.
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The first task is to create all the tools that are necessary. For most tools
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there are ready made Nix expressions.
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GCC
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There is an expression gcc-static-3.4. Depending on whether or not you already
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have an environment built with Nix (x86-linux: yes, rest: not yet) you should
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set the noSysDirs parameter in all-packages.nix. If there is an environment,
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leave it, but if the system is still impure (like most systems), set noSysDirs
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to false.
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