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Peter Simons 1e575d3572 perl-5.8 and perl-5.10: fixed build on MacOS X
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/gcc can do that, but
the gcc from Nix can't.

The solution is to compile Perl 5.10 in Nix so that the ./configure
phase can properly detect the system's capabilities. However, note that
the resulting binary is impure: it will find headers in /usr/include and
libraries in /usr/lib. In this respect, the Nix-compiled perl binary is
no different than the native one in /usr/bin -- it's just configured
more accurately.

svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=17870
2009-10-19 09:17:10 +00:00
Lluís Batlle i Rossell e5654ae80f Reverting simons' r17618, which causes a major stdenv rebuild.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=17622
2009-10-02 19:05:39 +00:00
Peter Simons 67cea803fa perl-5.8 and perl-5.10: fixed build on MacOS X
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.

svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=17618
2009-10-02 16:26:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 23ece2e968 * Fix for building Perl 5.8 on newer kernel headers. We still need
Perl 5.8 for old GHCs.

svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=17111
2009-09-14 13:31:26 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 7689a348c4 * Got rid of a lot of "postInstall=postInstall" and similar lines in
builders.  These are redundant now.
* Inlined some trivial builders.
* Removed a few explicit setup-hook creations.  This is done
  automatically now if setupHook is set.
* Deleted the initscripts package.  NixOS doesn't use it anymore.

svn path=/nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates/; revision=15276
2009-04-23 13:31:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 6b9ccbaf78 * setup.sh: turn on nullglob globally.
* setup.sh: removed some obsolete features, specifically some that
  were only used by the old build farm.
* addToSearchPath: removed some parameters that weren't used
  anywhere.

svn path=/nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates/; revision=15136
2009-04-18 22:22:51 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 359e488921 * WTF.
svn path=/nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates-merge/; revision=10835
2008-02-22 15:18:22 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 59d88c1772 * Revert r10833, it doesn't really work. Instead build ghcboot
with Perl 5.8.

svn path=/nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates-merge/; revision=10834
2008-02-22 14:43:00 +00:00