Re: [PATCH] Add wrapper scripts to run make in a Nix shell

Alyssa Ross
2025-08-08T18:02:35Z

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Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour@gmail.com> writes:

> On 8/8/25 11:00, Alyssa Ross wrote:
>> Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> It is very easy to forget to do this, and the results are confusing at
>>> best and wrong at worst. Add wrapper scripts that get it right and also
>>> automatically change to the correct directory for you.
>>
>> I think you'd probably be better setting up nix-direnv or something. It
>> makes it so that you can't forget to be in the shell, but also means you
>> can just run make, rather than having to remember to run some other
>> script. It also comes with caching I think, so if that works you'll
>> probably save quite a bit of time over doing a Nix evaluation for every
>> make invocation.
>
> For general development I agree, but unless nix-direnv always rebuilds
> when needed I think wrappers like this might be better for scripted use.
> The big advantage is that they guarantee the environment variables
> passed to 'make' will always be up-to-date, and I'm not sure how to
> achieve that in a script otherwise.

I think that's exactly what it does, but do correct me if I'm wrong.