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From Thin Air to Bootable Images: The Tine Build System

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  1. amelius · · focus · HN ↗
    Why cant we just use Nix for building anything? A unified approach to building stuff.
    1. 112233 · · focus · HN ↗
      Because of the elitist, exclusionist air it has gathered around itself, I guess. Trying to get something to work with zero knowledge about it is a maze of twisty passages, all alike.

      After following breadcrumbs across blogs, I found the proper incantation, executed it, got "too many arguments" from shell, along with multi-megabyte error wall, did not find anything related to the issue, wrote my own slop-makefile.

      nix is escape room

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