From 22d6e31fc6a9de2ee424984e629ccd2e394ba512 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eelco Dolstra Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 15:12:54 +0200 Subject: Add a mechanism for derivation attributes to reference the derivation's outputs MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit For example, you can now say: configureFlags = "--prefix=${placeholder "out"} --includedir=${placeholder "dev"}"; The strings returned by the ‘placeholder’ builtin are replaced at build time by the actual store paths corresponding to the specified outputs. Previously, you had to work around the inability to self-reference by doing stuff like: preConfigure = '' configureFlags+=" --prefix $out --includedir=$dev" ''; or rely on ad-hoc variable interpolation semantics in Autoconf or Make (e.g. --prefix=\$(out)), which doesn't always work. --- src/libstore/derivations.cc | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'src/libstore/derivations.cc') diff --git a/src/libstore/derivations.cc b/src/libstore/derivations.cc index 7dcf71d468df..f051f10bd018 100644 --- a/src/libstore/derivations.cc +++ b/src/libstore/derivations.cc @@ -390,4 +390,11 @@ Sink & operator << (Sink & out, const BasicDerivation & drv) } +std::string hashPlaceholder(const std::string & outputName) +{ + // FIXME: memoize? + return "/" + printHash32(hashString(htSHA256, "nix-output:" + outputName)); +} + + } -- cgit 1.4.1