[Nix-dev] [PATCH 0/2] Series short description

[Giulio Eulisse]

I was trying to get nix HEAD build on macosx (mostly because I want to try out disnix), however it seems that there are a few issues.

First of all the current ./bootstrap.sh does not seem to be compatible with the autoconf tools shipped on macosx, which I fixed using the first patch. Then it looks like the logic for the --enable-gc requires pkg-config, even if the garbage collector is not enabled. I fixed this by using the pkg-config command directly rather than the `PKG_CHECK_MODULES` macro, see the second patch.

Done this it turns out that the bison which ships on macosx (v2.3) does not support the `%code requires` preamble statement which is used in parser.y (looks like %code requires was introduced in v2.3*b*). This goes beyond my ability to fix. Does anyone have any idea how to get it to work?

Ciao,
Giulio
PS: notice I did build 0.16 without any problems, but it looks like such a version does not work with properly with the current nixpkgs trunk.
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Giulio Eulisse (2):
      Get bootstrap.sh work on macosx.
      Do not require pkg-config to be installed.


 Makefile.am  |    1 +
 bootstrap.sh |    7 ++++++-
 configure.ac |   14 +++++++++-----
 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

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