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| author | Robert Hensing <robert@roberthensing.nl> | 2022-01-11 09:07:58 +0100 |
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| committer | Robert Hensing <robert@roberthensing.nl> | 2022-05-02 08:49:32 +0200 |
| commit | 37ab5b43963f51f939b9c031a0dd824d82b41259 (patch) | |
| tree | 0f25a71370aee3fc532a57c6c31d1cd06e733dc3 /pkgs/stdenv | |
| parent | 1bbb5a14c89427241ec2d7d6c55724332dd59803 (diff) | |
mkDerivation: Add error hint for infinite recursion
Diffstat (limited to 'pkgs/stdenv')
| -rw-r--r-- | pkgs/stdenv/generic/make-derivation.nix | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pkgs/stdenv/generic/make-derivation.nix b/pkgs/stdenv/generic/make-derivation.nix index afb6eed632a9..3e3a7aa790db 100644 --- a/pkgs/stdenv/generic/make-derivation.nix +++ b/pkgs/stdenv/generic/make-derivation.nix @@ -19,7 +19,14 @@ let # Based off lib.makeExtensible, with modifications: makeDerivationExtensible = mkDerivationSimple: rattrs: let + # NOTE: The following is a hint that will be printed by the Nix cli when + # encountering an infinite recursion. It must not be formatted into + # separate lines, because Nix would only show the last line of the comment. + + # An infinite recursion here can be caused by having the attribute names of expression `e` in `.overrideAttrs(finalAttrs: previousAttrs: e)` depend on `finalAttrs`. Only the attribute values of `e` can depend on `finalAttrs`. args = rattrs (args // { inherit public; }); + # ^^^^ + public = mkDerivationSimple (f0: |