[Nix-dev] is there something like unsafeImpureEnvVars?

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 16/04/14 00:40, Ben Franksen wrote:

> So everything in my sources is patched to use stuff from /nix/store (I 
> checked that the path exists and is executable) and still it complains about 
> some /bin/sh missing?

There are many programs that have a (implicit) dependency on /bin/sh. Notably,
the system() function in Glibc calls /bin/sh. This is why chroots on NixOS do
include /bin/sh (as well as the dynamic library dependencies of /bin/sh).

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