Building scuttlebot on NixOS

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Building scuttlebot on NixOS

• Clone the scuttlebot source from GitHub.
• cd into the source directory and run node2nix.
• Create a new file in the source directory override.nix with the following contents:

  {pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> { inherit system; }, system ? builtins.currentSystem}:
  
  let
    nodePackages = import ./default.nix {
      inherit pkgs system;
    };
  in
  nodePackages // {
    package = nodePackages.package.override {
      buildInputs = [ pkgs.automake pkgs.autoconf pkgs.nodePackages.node-gyp-build ];
    };
  }
      

• In the source dir run nix-build override.nix -A package