On MacOS X, we used to use the native perl interpreter from /usr/bin.
Unfortunately, that interpreter fails to build a number of packages
(Subversion, Git, etc. ...), because it assumes knowledge about the underlying
C compiler that is not valid for the compiler used by Nix. For example,
/usr/bin/perl assumes that the compiler can build binaries for both the ppc and
the x86 architecture. /usr/bin/FCC can do that, but the gcc from Nix can't.
The solution is to compile Perl 5.10 via Nix so that it can properly configure
itself. However, note that the resulting binary is impure: it will find headers
in /usr/include and libraries in /usr/lib -- something a pure perl binary
wouldn't do. In this respect our Nix-compiled perl binary is not better than
the native one from /usr/bin -- it's just more accurately configured.
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When building Emacs on MacOS X, the configure script believes that libXaw is
available and tries to link it (even when, in fact, libXaw is not available).
To work around that problem, we make Xaw support mandatory on MacOS X.
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* Build libSM with the system libuuid on Darwin (in such a way that we
don't get a rebuild on all other platforms).
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On Linux, <uuid/uuid.h> and related functions are provided by the util-linux-ng
package, which doesn't build on other operating systems, such as MacOS X. That
platform provides libuuid as part of the system. Hence, to build libSM on
MacOS, we define (empty) variables LIBUUID_CFLAGS and LIBUUID_CFLAGS. Those
settings disable ./configure's attempt to detect libuuid with pkgconfig --
which would fail.
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They removed the url for that package version, I updated to the latest.
I changed the name from 'trueCrypt' to 'truecrypt'
I added an option for it not to have a gui built.
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They removed the usual tagged library names in 1.40 under the layout
"system", but they introduced a new layout "tagged". The "tagged" layout
is needed when we want more than one 'style' of the libraries at once(debug,release, ...
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The OpenSSH binaries built by the expression by default expect system-wide
configuration files in "/etc/ssh", which is a bit of an impurity (and certainly
inconsistent with the way other package handle --sysconfdir in Nix). Those who
prefer a clean installation, can now configure that directory path.
Adding the line "openssh = { etcDir = null; };" to $NIXPKGS_CONFIG configures
OpenSSH to use the default location, i.e. $out/etc. Setting that attribute to a
string will configure OpenSSH to use that concrete path instead.
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