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| author | Armijn Hemel <armijn@gpl-violations.org> | 2006-08-25 21:53:26 +0000 |
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| committer | Armijn Hemel <armijn@gpl-violations.org> | 2006-08-25 21:53:26 +0000 |
| commit | 985098d4be2c415014587421e9129f08d4ee712d (patch) | |
| tree | 5984c029c8f9d030173c05fd85e7c19bb61fb420 /maintainers/docs | |
| parent | 1a2f1130cb216a51cd5e3133f9f807047da51cd4 (diff) | |
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start documenting bootstrapping the static initial stdenv
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=6245
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diff --git a/maintainers/docs/create-new-static-env b/maintainers/docs/create-new-static-env new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..feb3a976ab99 --- /dev/null +++ b/maintainers/docs/create-new-static-env @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Creating a new static stdenv +---------------------------- + +When Nix is ported to a new (Linux) platform and you want to have a completely +pure setup for the stdenv (for example for NixOS) it is necessary to rebuild +the static tools. diff --git a/maintainers/docs/static-initial-env b/maintainers/docs/static-initial-env index b834d70faf4b..8db23d6f852d 100644 --- a/maintainers/docs/static-initial-env +++ b/maintainers/docs/static-initial-env @@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ The tools can be found in nixpkgs in: - tools/text/gnupatch-diet - tools/misc/findutils-static +and +- development/compilers/gcc-static-3.4 + Most packages are compiled with dietlibc, an alternate C library, apart from bash and findutils, which are statically linked to glibc. The reason we chose dietlibc has various reasons. First of all, curl cannot be built |