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I'm getting this error when compiling 2.3.7-1:

...
  GEN    scripts/nix-http-export.cgi
  GEN    scripts/nix-profile.sh
  GEN    scripts/nix-reduce-build
  LD     src/libutil/libnixutil.so
g++: error: unrecognized command-line option '-R'
make: *** [mk/lib.mk:104: src/libutil/libnixutil.so] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...
error making: nix

Hi all,

I no longer maintain this package or participate in the Arch Linux community.

Feel free to adopt it if you're interested.

Can you bring support to aarch, in manjaro arm? Nix tries to support aarch64.

Is anyone getting this permission error? It may be an upstream bug but I haven't had to chance to test on a system that didn't already have the Nix or archlinux-nix AUR package already present.

Installing sandbox binaries from NixOS-19.09 ...
these derivations will be built:
/nix/store/jp8aq0p4r0q3cwlg2silqxsdbxq3kz49-builder.pl.drv
/nix/store/x1dn68w93w6kwjm497ga3w5sn105gdgy-arch-system-build-sandbox.drv
building '/nix/store/jp8aq0p4r0q3cwlg2silqxsdbxq3kz49-builder.pl.drv'...
while setting up the build environment: executing 
'/nix/store/ily14d68xl11cnbbkf9svwnzwsrrnzah-bash-4.4-p23/bin/bash': 
Permission denied
builder for '/nix/store/jp8aq0p4r0q3cwlg2silqxsdbxq3kz49-builder.pl.drv' failed with exit code 1
cannot build derivation '/nix/store/x1dn68w93w6kwjm497ga3w5sn105gdgy-arch-system-build-sandbox.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built

Setting what I believe is the correct group 'nixbld' on /nix resolved the issue.

chgrp nixbld -R /nix

I just tried installing this today using yay. It failed with this error, after various other successful checks:

checking aws/s3/S3Client.h usability... no
checking aws/s3/S3Client.h presence... no
checking for aws/s3/S3Client.h... no
./configure: 7906: ./configure: Syntax error: "(" unexpected (expecting "fi")
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build()
    Aborting...
Error making:nix

Update: turns out base-devel is an implicit dependency for everything pkgbuild related. I keep the list as reference for everybody who tries to get a minimal setup running.

The following build dependencies are required e.g. when you install with docker minimal build:

gcc make autoconf automake patch pkgconfig

the dependency editline in aur additionally requires:

gcc autoconf automake

just for reference, makepkg runtime dependencies are:

fakeroot make gcc

Following the instructions on the arch wiki, I still see this issue:

$ yay -S nix
$ sudo chown -R $USER. /nix/var/nix/{gcroots,profiles,db}
$ nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable

$ nix-channel --list
nixpkgs https://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable

$ nix-channel --update
unpacking channels...
warning: Nix search path entry '/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels' does not exist, ignoring
while setting up the build environment: executing '/usr/bin/bash': No such file or directory
builder for '/nix/store/083z09myxrv7dlj6py6x1sbdvf2b7mg2-nixpkgs-20.03pre210643.ec1c46e2e58.drv' failed with exit code 1
error: build of '/nix/store/083z09myxrv7dlj6py6x1sbdvf2b7mg2-nixpkgs-20.03pre210643.ec1c46e2e58.drv' failed
error: program '/usr/bin/nix-env' failed with exit code 100

@vladan, thanks for that - I've applied that patch now.

This worked for me https://gist.github.com/vladan/b89012dea75d4ef2a2dbf3e19d5fadfe/revisions#diff-dfa7cdd9c34798e1af82f172b0822f08

Build fails for me. You need this patch: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/3154/commits/fcf198d4e7371427648832554d3771ef6c99a55d