[Nix-dev] Re: [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - 21314 - ludo- nixpkgs/trunk/pkgs/tools/text/gnupatch

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 10:38:14PM +0200, Sander van der Burg - EWI wrote:
> Me too. I see that the buildfarm is still quite busy (22:38 CEST), but if everything succeeded then we could keep this change in the SVN repo, right?
I'm against. :) Let that be in stdenv updates.

> > Ludovic Courts wrote:
> >
> >> -    if !(stdenv ? glibc)
> >> +    if !stdenv.isLinux
> >
> > I've reverted this because it causes a rebuild of all packages on Linux, which
> > was probably not your intent.  I don't understand why this happens, though.  I'm
> > guessing "isLinux" is not set in the bootstrap stdenv.
I think that the problem is that at some stdenvs in the bootstrap, 'glibc' is *not* set.
isLinux gets properly set for all stdenvs in the bootstrap.