Binary distributions on FreeBSD 9 fail to complete nix-final-setup.

[nixos]

Binary distributions on FreeBSD 9 fail to complete nix-final-setup.

[skull-squadron]

Steps to reproduce to follow:

[skull-squadron]

pkg_add -r curl && \ curl -L http://hydra.nixos.org/build/3059523/download/1/nix-1.2pre2912_20582e9-x86_64-freebsd.tar.bz2 | \ tar Jxf - -C / \ && nix-finish-install

[skull-squadron]

root@freebsd:/root # curl -L http://hydra.nixos.org/build/3059523/download/1/nix-1.2pre2912_20582e9-x86_64-freebsd.tar.bz2 | tar Jxf - -C / && nix-finish-install
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  1 21.1M    1  277k    0     0   148k      0  0:02:25  0:00:01  0:02:24  155ktar: Removing leading '/' from member names
100 21.1M  100 21.1M    0     0   291k      0  0:01:14  0:01:14 --:--:--  306k
creating /root/.nix-profile
installing `nix-1.2pre2912_20582e9'
error: substituter `/nix/store/kp5hls34kscjllm1hg2mqwl6rn1kbk18-nix-1.2pre2912_20582e9/libexec/nix/substituters/copy-from-other-stores.pl' failed: Shared object "libutil.so.8" not found, required by "perl"
/usr/bin/nix-finish-install: unable to install Nix into your default profile

[domenkozar]

Same goes for installing nixops, libz.so.5 is missing and can be symlinked from libz.so.6

[domenkozar]

@steakknife I wonder if this is still a problem on FreeBSD.

[armijnhemel]

FreeBSD 9.x is no longer supported by the FreeBSD project. Is this still a problem on a current, supported FreeBSD?

[0mp]

@armijnhemel There is an attempt at adding Nix to the FreeBSD ports collection: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17766

AFAIK, the missing library is no longer an issue.

[gilligan]

This seems dead and the author hasn't been active on this for years - i'd suggest to close this one.

[armijnhemel]

This seems dead and the author hasn't been active on this for years - i'd suggest to close this one.

Agreed