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Eelco Dolstra f9438fb64a nix develop: Add --redirect flag to redirect dependencies
This is primarily useful if you're hacking simultaneously on a package
and one of its dependencies. E.g. if you're hacking on Hydra and Nix,
you would start a dev shell for Nix, and then a dev shell for Hydra as
follows:

  $ nix develop \
    --redirect .#hydraJobs.build.x86_64-linux.nix ~/Dev/nix/outputs/out \
    --redirect .#hydraJobs.build.x86_64-linux.nix.dev ~/Dev/nix/outputs/dev

(This assumes hydraJobs.build.x86_64-linux has a passthru.nix
attribute. You can also use a store path.)

This causes all references in the environment to those store paths to
be rewritten to ~/Dev/nix/outputs/{out,dev}. Note: unfortunately, you
may need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/Dev/nix/outputs/out/lib because
Nixpkgs' ld-wrapper only adds -rpath entries for -L flags that point
to the Nix store.
2020-10-22 13:40:30 +02:00
.github Update .github/workflows/test.yml 2020-09-28 21:08:24 +03:00
config update config/config.{sub,guess} 2018-08-13 20:00:17 +00:00
contrib function-trace: always show the trace 2019-09-18 23:23:21 +02:00
corepkgs Remove corepkgs/config.nix 2020-09-17 10:42:51 +02:00
doc/manual Fix the docs about the new NIX_CONFIG env var 2020-10-21 17:04:36 +02:00
m4 autoconf: Fix C++17 detection not working on Ubuntu 16.04. 2019-07-03 04:32:25 +02:00
maintainers set Content-Type to "text/plain" for install script 2020-08-20 13:21:22 +02:00
misc Add some missing clean-files 2020-10-18 20:32:59 +02:00
mk Make a better -lz hack 2020-10-15 20:13:01 +00:00
nix-rust rust: small patches 2020-10-08 13:40:47 +02:00
perl Remove corepkgs/config.nix 2020-09-17 10:42:51 +02:00
scripts Merge pull request #3996 from abathur/macos_big_sur_fixes 2020-10-20 12:18:23 +02:00
src nix develop: Add --redirect flag to redirect dependencies 2020-10-22 13:40:30 +02:00
tests Add NIX_CONFIG env var for applying nix.conf overrides 2020-10-21 13:41:26 +02:00
.dir-locals.el .dir-locals.el: Set c-block-comment-prefix 2020-07-10 11:21:06 +02:00
.editorconfig Add .editorconfig 2017-06-05 22:57:28 +01:00
.gitignore Update .gitignore 2020-10-18 20:32:46 +02:00
.version Bump version to 3.0 2020-07-28 13:18:27 +02:00
bootstrap.sh bootstrap: Simplify & make more robust. 2011-09-06 12:11:05 +00:00
configure.ac Make a better -lz hack 2020-10-15 20:13:01 +00:00
COPYING * Change this to LGPL to keep the government happy. 2006-04-25 16:41:06 +00:00
default.nix Simplify shell.nix and default.nix 2020-06-17 19:21:46 +02:00
flake.lock flake.lock: Update 2020-10-18 21:20:35 +02:00
flake.nix Merge pull request #3996 from abathur/macos_big_sur_fixes 2020-10-20 12:18:23 +02:00
local.mk mk/precompiled-headers.mk: Remove special handling for clang 2020-10-06 13:27:09 +02:00
Makefile Disable FORTIFY_SOURCE when compiling without optims 2020-09-22 10:04:25 +02:00
Makefile.config.in Remove references to xmllint 2020-07-23 18:26:48 +02:00
precompiled-headers.h Config: Use nlohmann/json 2020-08-20 11:02:16 +02:00
README.md Fix a typo (#4073) 2020-09-26 11:33:04 +00:00
shell.nix Add back flake-compat shell.nix 2020-07-17 14:58:59 +00:00

Nix

Open Collective supporters Test

Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. Please refer to the Nix manual for more details.

Installation

On Linux and macOS the easiest way to install Nix is to run the following shell command (as a user other than root):

$ curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh

Information on additional installation methods is available on the Nix download page.

Building And Developing

See our Hacking guide in our manual for instruction on how to build nix from source with nix-build or how to get a development environment.

Additional Resources

License

Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1.