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

[Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour@gmail.com>]

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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.
-- 
Sincerely,
Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)

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