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authorEelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>2019-05-19T14·56+0200
committerEelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>2019-06-16T15·36+0200
commit82ca6ef390b752faf1bf27b22daa34b29a4b00d4 (patch)
tree83b8824b72ec501f70ff588802016ef84abc65d6 /src
parente84c26564507388f2e8b7c7f2b00eb2b57856da1 (diff)
Set $TERM
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-rw-r--r--src/libstore/build.cc3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/libstore/build.cc b/src/libstore/build.cc
index 9de7613f8d7a..5a75403cfc98 100644
--- a/src/libstore/build.cc
+++ b/src/libstore/build.cc
@@ -2443,6 +2443,9 @@ void DerivationGoal::initEnv()
        may change that in the future. So tell the builder which file
        descriptor to use for that. */
     env["NIX_LOG_FD"] = "2";
+
+    /* Trigger colored output in various tools. */
+    env["TERM"] = "xterm-256color";
 }