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authorAneesh Agrawal <aneeshusa@gmail.com>2017-05-02 01:45:30 -0400
committerAneesh Agrawal <aneeshusa@gmail.com>2017-05-02 01:45:30 -0400
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stdenv: More useful error message on bad meta attrs
This helps in debugging meta attribute type errors,
which are now enforced as of commit
90b9719f4fc95e54400a66bffcc8044c568cfa4b.
Diffstat (limited to 'pkgs/stdenv')
-rw-r--r--pkgs/stdenv/generic/default.nix2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pkgs/stdenv/generic/default.nix b/pkgs/stdenv/generic/default.nix
index 0f9223f6da59..6fb9375596e7 100644
--- a/pkgs/stdenv/generic/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/stdenv/generic/default.nix
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ let
 
       checkMetaAttr = k: v:
         if metaTypes?${k} then
-          if metaTypes.${k}.check v then null else "key '${k}' has a value of an invalid type; expected ${metaTypes.${k}.description}"
+          if metaTypes.${k}.check v then null else "key '${k}' has a value ${v} of an invalid type ${builtins.typeOf v}; expected ${metaTypes.${k}.description}"
         else "key '${k}' is unrecognized; expected one of: \n\t      [${lib.concatMapStringsSep ", " (x: "'${x}'") (lib.attrNames metaTypes)}]";
       checkMeta = meta: if shouldCheckMeta then lib.remove null (lib.mapAttrsToList checkMetaAttr meta) else [];