tree 4f60f230ecb2b11dd9c71059649f2d1290951903
parent 46993efdd33b73649796c5fc5c9efb193ae19d51
author Mathieu Boespflug <m@tweag.io> 1577724827 +0100
committer Mathieu Boespflug <m@tweag.io> 1587200992 +0200

os: add NixOS to the constraint values

NixOS uses the Linux kernel, but that's where commonality with the
myriad Linux distributions out there stops. Like the different BSD's,
NixOS is sufficiently different that it warrants a constraint value.
In particular, no non-static binary has any chance of running on NixOS
unless it was specifically built for it, because the dynamic linker is
in a non-standard location. This means that toolchains downloaded as
part of host autoconfiguration that detect Linux (like
`go_register_toolchains()`) always fail on NixOS.

NixOS is a popular operating system used by thousands, one of the most
active projects on all of GitHub, and with more unique packages than
even Debian, Fedora or Gentoo according to https://repology.org/.