5 commits

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Marc Weber	5d6b65d339	fix perl-5.8 build ... svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=18895	2009-12-11 13:58:26 +00:00
Peter Simons	1e575d3572	perl-5.8 and perl-5.10: fixed build on MacOS X ... On MacOS X, we used to use the native perl interpreter from /usr/bin. Unfortunately, that interpreter fails to build a number of packages (Subversion, Git, etc. ...), because it assumes knowledge about the underlying C compiler that is not valid for the compiler used by Nix. For example, /usr/bin/perl assumes that the compiler can build binaries for both the ppc and the x86 architecture. /usr/bin/gcc can do that, but the gcc from Nix can't. The solution is to compile Perl 5.10 in Nix so that the ./configure phase can properly detect the system's capabilities. However, note that the resulting binary is impure: it will find headers in /usr/include and libraries in /usr/lib. In this respect, the Nix-compiled perl binary is no different than the native one in /usr/bin -- it's just configured more accurately. svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=17870	2009-10-19 09:17:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra	23ece2e968	* Fix for building Perl 5.8 on newer kernel headers. We still need ... Perl 5.8 for old GHCs. svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=17111	2009-09-14 13:31:26 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra	359e488921	* WTF. ... svn path=/nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates-merge/; revision=10835	2008-02-22 15:18:22 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra	59d88c1772	* Revert r10833, it doesn't really work. Instead build ghcboot ... with Perl 5.8. svn path=/nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates-merge/; revision=10834	2008-02-22 14:43:00 +00:00

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