why the git version? 0.24b (in nixpkgs) was broken.
using 0.25rc1 gave the same error (gcc 4.6 related)
Both these versions are over a year old and lots of
commits were made after that, including something
that fixed building on nix.
Within netrw the only checksum algorithm that is available is MD5. We thus make
it possible for users to override this, so algorithms from other libraries such
as OpenSSL and MHash can used.
The upstream URL unfortunately wasn't available at this time, so I provided an
alternate mirror. I checksummed the file against the hashes from various
distributions in order to make sure it's the right one.
This is not needed to run XPRA, but gets rid of a few nasty errors.
XPRA is using the notify library to display nice desktop notifications, so there
might be users who actually like to have those funny things.
Cython is not required in order to run XPRA, so we now explicitly specify what
should be put into PYTHONPATH instead of using the PYTHONPATH which is set
during build time.
That way we don't get unnecessary stuff in /nix/store, like the mentioned
cython compiler/interpreter.
This is because the original version is no longer in development, as stated on
the website at http://code.google.com/p/partiwm/wiki/xpra:
"This project is in deep hibernation; I haven't had time to devote for several
years now. If you are looking for xpra, you may prefer Antoine Martin's fork,
which receives more support. It is available at: http://xpra.org/"
So I guess its safe to switch over to that fork.
Solves a hideous bug which affects lots of things including nix-env.
The question now is, how to rebuild everything that depends directly or indirectly on curl?
More about the underlying bug and its resolution here:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.curl.library/33285
Bug looks like this:
curl google.com
curl: (7) Failed to connect to 74.125.224.35: Invalid argument
