[coreboot] Re: Building Coreboot with Nix

[Julian Stecklina]

On Thu, 2021-04-15 at 17:11 +0000, Peter Stuge wrote:
> How does Nix deal with other cross-toolchains? That's essentially
> what the coreboot toolchain is, so maybe you can find inspiration
> there.

The short story is: It doesn't deal very well with software that tries to build
its own toolchain. :)

I got a bit lost in trying to make Coreboot build with the normal Nix toolchain.
But once I gave that up and embraced building the toolchain in a custom chroot,
I got everything working and it came out reasonably clean:

https://github.com/blitz/nix-coreboot/blob/main/default.nix

I've also pointed the Coreboot Nix wiki page there to spare someone else the
headscratching.

Thanks!
Julian