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diff --git a/maintainers/docs/static-initial-env b/maintainers/docs/static-initial-env deleted file mode 100644 index 8db23d6f852d..000000000000 --- a/maintainers/docs/static-initial-env +++ /dev/null @@ -1,35 +0,0 @@ -Upgrading the standard initial environment - -For Nix on i686-linux we make use of an environment of statically linked -tools (see $nixpkgs/stdenv/linux). The first version of these tools were -compiled outside of Nix, in an impure environment. They are used as some -magical ingredient to make everything work. To keep these tools more in -synchronization with the rest of nixpkgs and to make porting of nixpkgs -to other platforms easier the static versions are now also built with Nix -and nixpkgs. - -The tools can be found in nixpkgs in: - -- shells/bash-static -- tools/networking/curl-diet -- tools/archivers/gnutar-diet -- tools/compression/gzip-diet -- tools/compression/bzip2-static -- tools/text/gnused-diet -- tools/text/diffutils-diet -- tools/text/gnupatch-diet -- tools/misc/findutils-static - -and -- development/compilers/gcc-static-3.4 - -Most packages are compiled with dietlibc, an alternate C library, apart -from bash and findutils, which are statically linked to glibc. The reason -we chose dietlibc has various reasons. First of all, curl cannot be built -statically with glibc. If we do, we get a static binary, but it cannot resolve -hostnames to IP addresses. glibc dynamically loads functionality at runtime -to do resolving. When linking with dietlibc this doesn't happen. - -The static tools are not used as part of the input hashing (see Eelco's -PhD thesis, paragraph 5.4.1), so changing them does not change anything and -will not force a massive rebuild. |