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Diffstat (limited to 'pkgs/stdenv/common-path.nix')
| -rw-r--r-- | pkgs/stdenv/common-path.nix | 8 |
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diff --git a/pkgs/stdenv/common-path.nix b/pkgs/stdenv/common-path.nix index da468d56a2cda..8c1acfb50dd68 100644 --- a/pkgs/stdenv/common-path.nix +++ b/pkgs/stdenv/common-path.nix @@ -12,4 +12,12 @@ pkgs.bash pkgs.patch pkgs.xz.bin + + # The `file` command is added here because an enormous number of + # packages have a vendored dependency upon `file` in their + # `./configure` script, due to libtool<=2.4.6, or due to + # libtool>=2.4.7 in which the package author decided to set FILECMD + # when running libtoolize. In fact, file-5.4.6 *depends on itself* + # and tries to invoke `file` from its own ./configure script. + pkgs.file ] |