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authorEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2013-12-05T19·31-0500
committerEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2013-12-05T19·31-0500
commitc5b8fe315162440c1d808bc0a684a412d78bfa76 (patch)
treeaa97e19385fe73ec12196181002134aed70bfda6 /src/libstore
parent709cbe4e76e7b0f1b8abddbeb7714e194f6f8a02 (diff)
Print a trace message if a build fails due to the platform being unknown
Diffstat (limited to 'src/libstore')
-rw-r--r--src/libstore/build.cc5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/libstore/build.cc b/src/libstore/build.cc
index 63e34d256057..0a8bdbaf5e9c 100644
--- a/src/libstore/build.cc
+++ b/src/libstore/build.cc
@@ -1623,10 +1623,13 @@ void DerivationGoal::startBuilder()
     startNest(nest, lvlInfo, format(repair ? "repairing path(s) %1%" : "building path(s) %1%") % showPaths(missingPaths));
 
     /* Right platform? */
-    if (!canBuildLocally(drv.platform))
+    if (!canBuildLocally(drv.platform)) {
+        if (settings.printBuildTrace)
+            printMsg(lvlError, format("@ unsupported-platform %1% %2%") % drvPath % drv.platform);
         throw Error(
             format("a `%1%' is required to build `%3%', but I am a `%2%'")
             % drv.platform % settings.thisSystem % drvPath);
+    }
 
     /* Construct the environment passed to the builder. */