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Some notes on bootstrapping Nix
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Some notes:

  • Make sure to install libssl-dev
  • Boost from apt might be too old
  • libeditline might be too old
  • When building bdwgc, remember --enable-cplusplus
  • libboost-all-dev
  • Add -lz to src/libutil/local.mk
  • When running configure, remember --prefix=$PWD/inst
  • If building the manual fails, try to remove 'src/manual/local.mk' from Makefile
  • Stage0 Nix's config file is $(prefix)/etc/nix/nix.conf
  • sudo nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable nixpkgs
    • There should be a channel named nixpkgs, not nixos, because that is what profile.d/nix-daemon.sh expects
  • ./inst/bin/nix-env -iA nixpkgs.nix
    • Might need to specify the full path to the channel or set NIX_PATH explicitly 
      ./inst/bin/nix-env -if /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/nixpkgs -A nix
  • Source /nix/var/nix/profiles/default/etc/profile.d/nix-daemon.sh and /nix/var/nix/profiles/default/etc/profile.d/nix.sh
  • If there's an error about failing to mount/remount /proc, disable the sandbox
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