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Jonas Chevalier 1e910209ae mkShell: make it buildable (#153194 ) When I designed `mkShell`, I didn't have a good idea of what the output should look like and so decided to make the build fail. In practice, this causes quite a bit of confusion and complications because now the shell cannot be part of a normal package set without failing the CI as well. This commit changes that build phase to record all the build inputs in a file. That way it becomes possible to build it, makes sure that all the build inputs get built as well, and also can be used as a GC root. (by applying the same trick as #95536). The documentation has also been improved to better describe what mkShell does and how to use it.	2022-01-08 01:54:04 +01:00
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Jonas Chevalier 1e910209ae

When I designed `mkShell`, I didn't have a good idea of what the output
should look like and so decided to make the build fail. In practice,
this causes quite a bit of confusion and complications because now the
shell cannot be part of a normal package set without failing the CI as
well.

This commit changes that build phase to record all the build inputs in a
file. That way it becomes possible to build it, makes sure that all the
build inputs get built as well, and also can be used as a GC root.
(by applying the same trick as #95536).

The documentation has also been improved to better describe what mkShell
does and how to use it.

2022-01-08 01:54:04 +01:00

default.nix