Whenever we create scripts that are installed to $out, we must use runtimeShell
in order to get the shell that can be executed on the machine we create the
package for. This is relevant for cross-compiling. The only use case for
stdenv.shell are scripts that are executed as part of the build system.
Usages in checkPhase are borderline however to decrease the likelyhood
of people copying the wrong examples, I decided to use runtimeShell as well.
This is the latest release from Cadsoft, before they were bought by
Autocad. Autocad has released 8.x, but
- it requires reworking the Nix expression (different packaging)
- the paid license version requires a monthly subscription fee, you never
"own" the software (AFAICT).
Due to the licensing change in 8.x, I think keeping Eagle 7.x around is
a good idea.
CC @bjornfor:
Version 6.5.0 has disappeared from Cadsoft's FTP site. This is the
closest version that's still available. Not extensively tested, but
works fine here.
Current version is 7.3.0. I leave that to someone more interested.
And name the desktop file "eagle.desktop", not "Eagle.desktop". The user
facing application name is still "Eagle"; it has nothing to do with the
name of the desktop file.
Eagle is a schematic capture and PCB layout program from CadSoft. This
is proprietary software; CadSoft provide a self-extracting shell script
with embedded tarball of the prebuilt application.
Add the latest Eagle version, 6.4.0.
I've added a small LD_PRELOAD library that redirects operations on the
license file from <eagle_install_path>/bin/eagle.key to
$HOME/.eagle.key. Without this Eagle will never get past the license
dialog (because you cannot write to the nix store).
Eagle also has issues copying its example projects to other locations;
it seems that it wants to preserve the read-only permissions from the
source over to the destination. Because of this it cannot complete the
copy operation because it cannot write the project files into to the
(read-only) project directory it just created. So wrap chmod by OR'ing
in the write-by-owner bit.
