What Is Nix?

Post by renox » Fri, May 22, 2020, 8:51 PM UTC

zerd wrote: post #313

ris wrote: post #258

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It'll only rebuild the packages that depended on that particular openssl. This is an area where Nix shines, because all packages are explicitly bound to their dependencies, it means it's no longer relevant what one file happens to be occupying `/usr/lib/libssl.so`, or even `/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6`, so you can be running different apps that rely on totally different glibc versions alongside each other with no…

Oh, that sounds like it could solve my issue. E.g. I compiled my program against my glibc which is 2.24, but target was running 2.23. I didn't even use any "new" 2.24 features, but it was missing a symbol, so it wouldn't run. But then to compile against 2.23 locally, I had to get an older version of GCC (not sure why, but), and everything needed to build the older GCC, and so on. But then I got some old versions of l…

Post by autojoechen » Sat, May 23, 2020, 5:07 PM UTC

endgame wrote: post #159

jdlshore wrote: post #147

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Unfortunately, the security updates introduced in MacOS Catalina have made installing Nix on the latest version of MacOS a fairly involved process.[1] I looked at using it when I rebuilt my computer recently and decided to wait until it was more baked. [1] Catalina restricts which directories can be added to the root dir. Nix uses /nix.

There is a way to deal with the latest round of developer-hostile changes from Apple: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2925#issuecomment-604501... documents the workaround but if you don't have a direct link it's almost impossible to find because GitHub's UI is terrible.