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authorEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2006-02-10T17·37+0000
committerEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2006-02-10T17·37+0000
commit982399bb144ca1c6d21834fd9a6f61b49db1bfce (patch)
tree5e4080d581dec2cac6ecde92772fe50908e0550c /src
parentc6120352b3fd25380ff21726982e22b97ee43e0b (diff)
* Enable the --attr in nix-build as well (and add -A as an alias).
  Example:

    $ nix-build ./all-packages.nix -A xlibs.libX11

  So finally it's easy to perform a test build of a Nix expression!

Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/nix-instantiate/main.cc2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/nix-instantiate/main.cc b/src/nix-instantiate/main.cc
index 7668958fca17..d73d0e613f72 100644
--- a/src/nix-instantiate/main.cc
+++ b/src/nix-instantiate/main.cc
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ void run(Strings args)
                 throw UsageError("`--add-root requires an argument");
             gcRoot = absPath(*i++);
         }
-        else if (arg == "--attr") {
+        else if (arg == "--attr" || arg == "-A") {
             if (i == args.end())
                 throw UsageError("`--attr requires an argument");
             attrPath = *i++;