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| author | Robert Scott <code@humanleg.org.uk> | 2023-11-09 22:08:19 +0000 |
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| committer | Robert Scott <code@humanleg.org.uk> | 2023-12-02 14:47:36 +0000 |
| commit | 035d1e2cf9ce2e673db853ec6a8ac6161124189a (patch) | |
| tree | 3d236bd3e1639731302ea372fe3509a6bc8a0cc1 /pkgs/build-support | |
| parent | e7704a1b645c94d51fdfdb2875638d3ffae0f15b (diff) | |
trivial-builders: add onlyBin
Diffstat (limited to 'pkgs/build-support')
| -rw-r--r-- | pkgs/build-support/trivial-builders/default.nix | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/trivial-builders/default.nix b/pkgs/build-support/trivial-builders/default.nix index 744c7807f4634..0b9f696d1cb80 100644 --- a/pkgs/build-support/trivial-builders/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/build-support/trivial-builders/default.nix @@ -631,6 +631,19 @@ rec { let mkEntryFromDrv = drv: { name = drv.name; path = drv; }; in linkFarm name (map mkEntryFromDrv drvs); + /* + Produce a derivation that links to the target derivation's `/bin`, + and *only* `/bin`. + + This is useful when your favourite package doesn't have a separate + bin output and other contents of the package's output (e.g. setup + hooks) cause trouble when used in your environment. + */ + onlyBin = drv: runCommand "${drv.name}-only-bin" {} '' + mkdir -p $out + ln -s ${lib.getBin drv}/bin $out/bin + ''; + # docs in doc/builders/special/makesetuphook.section.md makeSetupHook = |