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* Add a Nix expression search path feature. Paths between angle

brackets, e.g.

    import <nixpkgs/pkgs/lib>

  are resolved by looking them up relative to the elements listed in
  the search path.  This allows us to get rid of hacks like

    import "${builtins.getEnv "NIXPKGS_ALL"}/pkgs/lib"

  The search path can be specified through the ‘-I’ command-line flag
  and through the colon-separated ‘NIX_PATH’ environment variable,
  e.g.,

    $ nix-build -I /etc/nixos ...

  If a file is not found in the search path, an error message is
  lazily thrown.
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Eelco Dolstra 2011-08-06 16:05:24 +00:00
parent 54945a2950
commit 1ecc97b6bd
24 changed files with 98 additions and 9 deletions

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@ -181,6 +181,12 @@ EvalState::EvalState()
gcInitialised = true;
}
#endif
/* Initialise the Nix expression search path. */
searchPathInsertionPoint = searchPath.end();
Strings paths = tokenizeString(getEnv("NIX_PATH", ""), ":");
foreach (Strings::iterator, i, paths) addToSearchPath(*i);
searchPathInsertionPoint = searchPath.begin();
}