A modern, delicious implementation of the Nix package manager, focused on correctness, usability, and growth — and committed to doing right by its community
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Eelco Dolstra 555347744d * Derivation expressions now can specify arguments to be passed to the
builder.  Note that this unfortunately causes all Fix-computed
  hashes to change.
2003-08-15 12:32:37 +00:00
boost * Added the Boost format library which provides a safe printf 2003-06-27 13:41:42 +00:00
corepkgs * A script `nix-prefetch-url' to fetch a URL, place it in the Nix 2003-08-15 10:13:41 +00:00
doc * Use a catalog when calling xsltproc. 2003-08-14 18:24:40 +00:00
externals * Check for the pthread library (db4 needs it on some platforms). 2003-07-28 14:13:42 +00:00
scripts * A script `nix-prefetch-url' to fetch a URL, place it in the Nix 2003-08-15 10:13:41 +00:00
src * Derivation expressions now can specify arguments to be passed to the 2003-08-15 12:32:37 +00:00
testpkgs * Function application test cases. 2003-08-14 12:37:50 +00:00
AUTHORS * Autoconf / Automake configuration and building. 2003-04-04 16:14:56 +00:00
ChangeLog * Autoconf / Automake configuration and building. 2003-04-04 16:14:56 +00:00
configure.ac * Generate man pages from the manual. 2003-08-12 13:54:42 +00:00
COPYING * Autoconf / Automake configuration and building. 2003-04-04 16:14:56 +00:00
INSTALL * Autoconf / Automake configuration and building. 2003-04-04 16:14:56 +00:00
Makefile.am * Generate man pages from the manual. 2003-08-12 13:54:42 +00:00
NEWS * Autoconf / Automake configuration and building. 2003-04-04 16:14:56 +00:00
README * Added some installation instructions to the readme. 2003-04-08 12:13:57 +00:00
substitute.mk * Scan for wget and use the full path in fetchurl.sh. 2003-08-06 09:35:05 +00:00

Overview
========

Nix is a package manager, deployment system, and component glue
mechanism.


Prerequisites
=============

* Berkeley DB 4.0.14
* CWI ATerm 2.0


Installation
============

* When building from the Subversion repository, first do:

    autoreconf -i

* To build, do:

    ./configure
    make
    make install

  Note that this will install to /nix, which is the default prefix.
  You can specify another prefix, but this is not recommended if you
  want to use prebuilt packages from other sources.


Usage
=====

TODO