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Nix, the purely functional package manager
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Before this change, if you were cross compiling Nix, then the nix-manual subproject would never get built. In some situations, it makes sense to not build the nix-manual subproject when cross compiling. For example, if the build system is x86_64 and the host system is riscv64, then it makes sense to not build the manual. Building the manual requires executing certain build artifacts, and you can’t run x86_64 executables on riscv64 systems. That being said, there are some situations where it does make sense to build the nix-manual subproject when cross compiling. For example, if the build system is x86_64 and the host system is i686, then it doesn’t make sense to not build the manual. You can run i686 executables on x86_64 systems just fine. This change makes it so that the nix-manual subproject will sometimes get built when cross compiling. Specifically, the nix-manual subproject will get built as long as the doc-gen option is enabled and the build system is capable of running host binaries. --- The main motivation behind this change is to fix this Nixpkgs issue [1]. Building pkgs.nixStatic counts as cross compiling Nix, and pkgs.nixStatic is supposed to produce a man output. Building pkgs.nixStatic currently fails because it isn’t actually producing a man output. That issue will go away once this commit gets backported to Nix 2.28.x. [1]: <https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/426410> |
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Nix
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 and first steps
Visit nix.dev for installation instructions and beginner tutorials.
Full reference documentation can be found in the Nix manual.
Building and developing
Follow instructions in the Nix reference manual to set up a development environment and build Nix from source.
Contributing
Check the contributing guide if you want to get involved with developing Nix.
Additional resources
Nix was created by Eelco Dolstra and developed as the subject of his PhD thesis The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model, published 2006. Today, a world-wide developer community contributes to Nix and the ecosystem that has grown around it.
- The Nix, Nixpkgs, NixOS Community on nixos.org
- Official documentation on nix.dev
- Nixpkgs is the largest, most up-to-date free software repository in the world
- NixOS is a Linux distribution that can be configured fully declaratively
- Discourse
- Matrix: #users:nixos.org for user support and #nix-dev:nixos.org for development
License
Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1.