nixpkgs/pkgs/build-support/mkshell
Jonas Chevalier 1e910209ae
mkShell: make it buildable (#153194)
When I designed `mkShell`, I didn't have a good idea of what the output
should look like and so decided to make the build fail. In practice,
this causes quite a bit of confusion and complications because now the
shell cannot be part of a normal package set without failing the CI as
well.

This commit changes that build phase to record all the build inputs in a
file. That way it becomes possible to build it, makes sure that all the
build inputs get built as well, and also can be used as a GC root.
(by applying the same trick as #95536).

The documentation has also been improved to better describe what mkShell
does and how to use it.
2022-01-08 01:54:04 +01:00
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