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| My attempt to bootstrap a build environment in nix. | ||||
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| nix build -f busybox.nix busybox | ||||
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| All the busybox commands get exposed in a derivation called `utils`. | ||||
| You can build it: | ||||
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| nix build -f busybox.nix utils | ||||
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| The output of the derivation can be used as part of a `PATH` in a shell like it is done in `shellDerivation`. | ||||
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