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| author | John Chapman <thestar@fussycoder.id.au> | 2021-10-09 12:03:34 +1100 |
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| committer | John Chapman <thestar@fussycoder.id.au> | 2021-10-09 12:03:34 +1100 |
| commit | 4cff4130549abf65eb17242a373eb98953252895 (patch) | |
| tree | 7e7fc292e40d2395d4e78aa1cf483af7b2ac1cba /doc/manual | |
| parent | 01e9f046a8f8fafb4d084153d4b30dd3a8d7aef5 (diff) | |
Clarify that not all nix packages will use the default build phases
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/src/command-ref/nix-shell.md | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/src/command-ref/nix-shell.md b/doc/manual/src/command-ref/nix-shell.md index 72f6730f1..8bcad85e1 100644 --- a/doc/manual/src/command-ref/nix-shell.md +++ b/doc/manual/src/command-ref/nix-shell.md @@ -117,6 +117,12 @@ $ nix-shell '<nixpkgs>' -A pan [nix-shell]$ ./pan/gui/pan ``` +Note: Other packages may override these phases (the unpackPhase, +configurePhase, buildPhase, etc). +For those, it may be required to do something like +`eval "$configurePhase-configurePhase"` or `eval "$configurePhase"` +depending on how that package's nix files have been written. + To clear the environment first, and do some additional automatic initialisation of the interactive shell: |