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authorScott R. Parish <srparish@gmail.com>2016-04-17 15:25:48 -0700
committerScott R. Parish <srparish@gmail.com>2016-04-26 13:30:57 -0700
commit96d3534a9ed0d93c5e819543692933e50f246982 (patch)
tree7b32a6bd490018b8b523949cc5773ecd72835587 /doc/manual
parentc879a20850f2035cd87b1693da26cadf30affe11 (diff)
fix "nix-build" examples
The existing "nix-build" examples were failing: error: cannot auto-call a function that has an argument without a default value (‘system’) Thanks to @groxxda on irc for pointing out the fix! Updated to completely remove unneeded path argument, suggested by @joachifm Updated to remove other occurences of `all-packages.nix` from files as suggested by @domenkozar
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-rw-r--r--doc/manual/expressions/simple-building-testing.xml18
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/expressions/simple-building-testing.xml b/doc/manual/expressions/simple-building-testing.xml
index e0dd98b7e..bd3901a13 100644
--- a/doc/manual/expressions/simple-building-testing.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/expressions/simple-building-testing.xml
@@ -7,15 +7,14 @@
<title>Building and Testing</title>
<para>You can now try to build Hello. Of course, you could do
-<literal>nix-env -f pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix -i hello</literal>,
-but you may not want to install a possibly broken package just yet.
-The best way to test the package is by using the command <command
-linkend="sec-nix-build">nix-build</command>, which builds a Nix
-expression and creates a symlink named <filename>result</filename> in
-the current directory:
+<literal>nix-env -i hello</literal>, but you may not want to install a
+possibly broken package just yet. The best way to test the package is by
+using the command <command linkend="sec-nix-build">nix-build</command>,
+which builds a Nix expression and creates a symlink named
+<filename>result</filename> in the current directory:
<screen>
-$ nix-build pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix -A hello
+$ nix-build -A hello
building path `/nix/store/632d2b22514d...-hello-2.1.1'
hello-2.1.1/
hello-2.1.1/intl/
@@ -29,8 +28,7 @@ $ ./result/bin/hello
Hello, world!</screen>
The <link linkend='opt-attr'><option>-A</option></link> option selects
-the <literal>hello</literal> attribute from
-<filename>all-packages.nix</filename>. This is faster than using the
+the <literal>hello</literal> attribute. This is faster than using the
symbolic package name specified by the <literal>name</literal>
attribute (which also happens to be <literal>hello</literal>) and is
unambiguous (there can be multiple packages with the symbolic name
@@ -69,7 +67,7 @@ block (or perform other derivations if available) until the build
finishes:
<screen>
-$ nix-build pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix -A hello
+$ nix-build -A hello
waiting for lock on `/nix/store/0h5b7hp8d4hqfrw8igvx97x1xawrjnac-hello-2.1.1x'</screen>
So it is always safe to run multiple instances of Nix in parallel