[Nix-dev] Merging ‘stdenv-updates’ on Jan. 20th

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello Nixers!

After discussion with the guilty parties on #nixos, we agreed on merging
‘stdenv-updates’ into ‘trunk’ next week, hopefully by Wednesday 20th.

This means we’re entering some sort of a “freeze period” on that branch,
leaving a bit of time to fix issues such as the one listed below.

I recommend checking whether the packages you’re maintaining or
interested in build fine on that branch:

  http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixpkgs/stdenv

Thanks,
Ludo’.

>   - Bash 4.1 fails to build on Cygwin
>     (http://hydra.nixos.org/build/206156).
>
>   - The dependencies of GCC 4.4 fail to build on non-GNU platforms
>     (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.nixos/2382).
>
>   - The BSD ports suffer from not using GNU Coreutils, notably because
>     some builders use GNU-specific options (e.g., ‘cp -v’,
>     http://hydra.nixos.org/build/205890/nixlog/1/tail).  So currently no
>     BSD port works.
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