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Eelco Dolstra 20b6f94b65 * nix-build: pass the --show-trace flag. 2009-07-15 09:10:38 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra f24cf5d303 * nix-build: if nix-instantiate or nix-store fails due to a signal
(e.g. out of memory or a segfault), print an error message.
  Otherwise the user doesn't see anything.
2009-06-10 11:30:34 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 1dcf208f56 * Clean up some tests (use nix-build where appropriate). 2009-03-18 13:15:55 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra fd2e14b3c8 * nix-build: support --option. 2009-02-27 12:09:30 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 4ce692df88 2009-01-13 10:42:13 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 4213b8d8ec * Urgh. 2008-11-20 15:44:59 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 7592f48c83 * nix-build: `--dry-run' flag. 2008-08-04 13:46:01 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 6784b14241 * nix-build: pass --argstr to nix-instantiate. 2007-11-15 16:52:40 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 9bff7ad728 * Check against creation of GC roots in the store. Those roots don't
work, because findRoots() stops when it encounters a symlink to the
  store.  And of course the store is supposed to be read-only.
2007-06-11 11:36:22 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 9dbfe242e3 * Kill a build if it has gone for more than a certain number of
seconds without producing output on stdout or stderr (NIX-65).  This
  timeout can be specified using the `--max-silent-time' option or the
  `build-max-silent-time' configuration setting.  The default is
  infinity (0).

* Fix a tricky race condition: if we kill the build user before the
  child has done its setuid() to the build user uid, then it won't be
  killed, and we'll potentially lock up in pid.wait().  So also send a
  conventional kill to the child.
2006-12-08 15:44:00 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra b3f916995a * Oops, `nix-build --no-out-link' was broken. 2006-10-31 18:45:17 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra b3d3700e11 * nix-build: check the exit status of `nix-store -r'. 2006-10-19 17:30:09 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra f4a502a09a * Use old-school pipe opens; the new style is Perl >= 5.8.0. 2006-08-04 11:51:46 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra a29b64a231 * Better error checking. 2006-08-01 13:50:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 4661282fde * `nix-instantiate ... --arg NAME VALUE': allow arguments to be passed
to functions from the command line.
* nix-build: started removing backticks.
2006-07-28 16:03:28 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 05bb644890 * Allow the resulting symlink of nix-build to be named, e.g.,
$ nix-build .../i686-linux.nix -A apacheHttpd -o apache
2006-03-14 16:35:01 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 120f00c04f * More online help. 2006-03-03 14:25:07 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 2d54312f87 * Rewrote nix-build in Perl, since sh is just too limited (turns out
that arrays are a bash extension, so it didn't work on FreeBSD).
  Also fixes NIX-8 (readlink(1) dependency).
2006-03-03 14:15:02 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 982399bb14 * Enable the --attr in nix-build as well (and add -A as an alias).
Example:

    $ nix-build ./all-packages.nix -A xlibs.libX11

  So finally it's easy to perform a test build of a Nix expression!
2006-02-10 17:37:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra a5ceb5bc0b * nix-build: default to `./default.nix' if no paths are specified.
So when using Nix as a build tool, you can just say `nix-build' and
  it will build the top-level derivation defined in `default.nix'.
2005-07-13 17:39:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 9f6835c282 * Remove debug code. 2005-02-01 17:52:11 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 630ae0c9d7 * nix-build: use an indirection scheme to make it easier for users to
get rid of GC roots.  Nix-build places a symlink `result' in the
  current directory.  Previously, removing that symlink would not
  remove the store path being linked to as a GC root.  Now, the GC
  root created by nix-build is actually a symlink in
  `/nix/var/nix/gcroots/auto' to `result'.  So if that symlink is
  removed the GC root automatically becomes invalid (since it can no
  longer be resolved).  The root itself is not automatically removed -
  the garbage collector should delete dangling roots.
2005-02-01 13:48:46 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra dcc37c236c * nix-store, nix-instantiate: added an option `--add-root' to
immediately add the result as a permanent GC root.  This is the only
  way to prevent a race with the garbage collector.  For instance, the
  old style

    ln -s $(nix-store -r $(nix-instantiate foo.nix)) \
      /nix/var/nix/gcroots/result

  has two time windows in which the garbage collector can interfere
  (by GC'ing the derivation and the output, respectively).  On the
  other hand,

    nix-store --add-root /nix/var/nix/gcroots/result -r \
      $(nix-instantiate --add-root /nix/var/nix/gcroots/drv \
        foo.nix)

  is safe.

* nix-build: use `--add-root' to prevent GC races.
2005-02-01 12:36:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra c505702265 * Fix and simplify the garbage collector (it's still not concurrent,
though).  In particular it's now much easier to register a GC root.
  Just place a symlink to whatever store path it is that you want to
  keep in /nix/var/nix/gcroots.
2005-01-27 15:21:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 9ee88bb2f2 * Use absolute paths. 2005-01-14 13:50:00 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 3d1b2101cc * Place manifests in /nix/var/nix/manifests.
* Use the new patch downloader.
2004-12-20 16:38:50 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 2aa1f4717b * Fix File exists' errors if the result' symlink exists but is
dangling.
2004-10-31 12:01:16 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 937ce0cd21 * Flag `--no-link' suppresses symlinking to the output path.
* Handle multiple derivations correctly.
2004-08-18 12:11:31 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra e8a95108c0 * Nix-build places a symlink `result' in the current directory to the
store object just built.
2004-07-28 13:32:45 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra d051cd40e1 * Nix-instantiate can return multiple store expressions. 2004-06-22 15:17:04 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 3093af58a7 * A utility script `nix-build' that builds Nix expressions and prints
their output paths (and only that) on standard output.
2004-06-22 15:12:34 +00:00