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The Sierra linker added a limit on the number of paths that any one dynamic library (`*.dylib`) can reference. This causes problems when a Haskell library has many immediate dependencies (#22810). We follow a similar fix as GHC/Cabal/Stack: for each derivation, create a new directory with symlinks to all the dylibs of its immediate dependencies, and patch its package DB to reference that directory using the new `dynamic-library-dirs` field. Note that this change is a no-op for older versions of GHC, i.e., they will continue to fail on some packages as before. Also note that this change causes the bootstrapped versions of GHC to be recompiled, since they depend on `hscolour` which is built by `generic-builder.nix`. Tested by building the `stack` binary as described in #22810.
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-17.03 for the latest
release and nixos-unstable for the latest successful build of master:
% git remote update channels
% git rebase channels/nixos-17.03
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)
- Nix Wiki (deprecated, see milestone "Move the Wiki!")
- Continuous package builds for unstable/master
- Continuous package builds for 17.03 release
- Tests for unstable/master
- Tests for 17.03 release
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