nikola don't build on darwin

[davidak]

Issue description

inotify is not available on macosx-10.6-x86_64
builder for ‘/nix/store/akyf9rci6lwhd17gi7ylmf4swjpjr517-python3.6-pyinotify-0.9.6.drv’ failed with exit code 1
cannot build derivation ‘/nix/store/yq23rpc2shvzghgrbajz8c1lgzi5avnr-doit-0.30.3.drv’: 1 dependencies couldn't be built
cannot build derivation ‘/nix/store/1mf17sy7cr4knrl0hlhb0p5ja2z54pap-python3.6-Nikola-7.8.10.drv’: 1 dependencies couldn't be built
error: build of ‘/nix/store/1mf17sy7cr4knrl0hlhb0p5ja2z54pap-python3.6-Nikola-7.8.10.drv’ failed

cc @jluttine

Steps to reproduce

1. set allowBroken = true;
2. nix-env -i python3.6-Nikola-7.8.10

Technical details

• system: "x86_64-darwin"
• host os: Darwin 14.5.0, macOS 10.10.5
• multi-user?: yes
• sandbox: no
• version: nix-env (Nix) 1.11.13
• channels(davidak): "nixpkgs-18.03pre121255.45a85eaceb"
• channels(root): "nixpkgs-17.09pre111402.998a0e818e"
• nixpkgs: /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixpkgs

[jluttine]

I suppose the issue is in nix packaging of doit. In setup.py https://github.com/pydoit/doit/blob/master/setup.py#L76

      extras_require={
          ':sys.platform == "darwin"': ['macfsevents'],
          ':sys.platform == "linux"': ['pyinotify'],
},

So, nix derivation of doit should use pyinotify build input for linux and macfsevents build input for darwin. However, I couldn't find macfsevents packaged for nix. But I suppose that would fix the issue, if I understood correctly.

[stale]

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[patka-123]

I can no longer reproduce this, and reading the other messages I think it's safe to close this issue. Feel free to reopen this issue if I made a wrong assumption.