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Diffstat (limited to 'nixpkgs/pkgs/development/tools/misc/texinfo/common.nix')
| -rw-r--r-- | nixpkgs/pkgs/development/tools/misc/texinfo/common.nix | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/tools/misc/texinfo/common.nix b/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/tools/misc/texinfo/common.nix index 1fb8a6b2f0d..f0f4c269fae 100644 --- a/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/tools/misc/texinfo/common.nix +++ b/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/tools/misc/texinfo/common.nix @@ -6,8 +6,13 @@ , interactive ? false, ncurses, procps }: +# Note: this package is used for bootstrapping fetchurl, and thus +# cannot use fetchpatch! All mutable patches (generated by GitHub or +# cgit) that are needed here should be included directly in Nixpkgs as +# files. + let - crossBuildTools = interactive && stdenv.hostPlatform != stdenv.buildPlatform; + crossBuildTools = stdenv.hostPlatform != stdenv.buildPlatform; in with stdenv.lib; @@ -21,8 +26,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation { inherit sha256; }; - patches = optional (version == "6.5") ./perl.patch - ++ optional crossBuildTools ./cross-tools-flags.patch; + patches = optional crossBuildTools ./cross-tools-flags.patch; # ncurses is required to build `makedoc' # this feature is introduced by the ./cross-tools-flags.patch |