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First, closure size is reduced by including the static libraries in $out instead of trying to move them to $dev. The Qt build system cannot handle libraries being split between different prefixes. Previously, the static libraries were moved into $dev and the shared libraries were symlinked from $out to $dev to fool the build system. However, this causes $dev to be retained at runtime. Instead, we now keep the static libraries in $out. Fortunately, the static libraries are not very large anyway. Second, we build with QT_NO_DEBUG defined unless debugging is enabled. This causes some assertions to be removed; when assertions are included, they pull paths from $dev into the runtime closure by using the __FILE__ macro. We also now patch qtbase to remove even more assertions when QT_NO_DEBUG is defined.
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-17.09 for the latest
release and nixos-unstable for the latest successful build of master:
% git remote update channels
% git rebase channels/nixos-17.09
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 17.09 release
- Tests for unstable/master
- Tests for 17.09 release
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