Any attempt to instantiate these expressions on an unsupported platform is
going to 'throw' an error. The call to 'assert' doesn't add any value to
that (and generates less readable error messages, too). Further details are
available at <https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/56>.
I have no idea whether that's going to work, and I can't test it for
lack of access to a MacOS X machine, but think chances are pretty good
that this is going to succeed.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=27751
The initial MacOS X binaries have been linked to libgmp.dylib using some
mad path in /opt that's now hard-coded into the program. Consequently,
$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH must contain the place where libgmp really is for
those binaries to run correctly. Tested on i386-apple-darwin9.7.0.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=17873
Unfortunately, the same problem occurs again with 'installPackage', so as of
now, GHC cannot be installed on Red Hat.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=16314
suggestion. It's good to use an older GHC for bootstrapping because
old versions can build newer versions but not vice versa.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=15120
