| 4 Jun 2026 |
 lcenchew | For example, I like to have app pkgs be placed at /Volumes/ssd/nix/Applications/Nix Apps/
Is this configurable? | 06:37:49 |
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 samasaur | In reply to @lcenchew:matrix.org
For example, I like to have app pkgs be placed at /Volumes/ssd/nix/Applications/Nix Apps/
Is this configurable? There isn't a built-in option for this, though you could of course replace the activation script with a custom one that uses that location | 16:46:35 |
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| 7 Jun 2026 |
| samasaur | release branch has been cut; apologies for the delay. lmk if you run into any issues | 06:13:30 |
 niklaskorz | For zed-editor we've run into the linker error "ld: b(l) ARM64 branch out of range (-157637180 max is +/-128MB)" during an update (https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/527683) and a suggested working fix is -C code-model=large, but I found LLVM discussions mentioning that code-model large is unmaintained or incomplete for aarch64-darwin. Does anyone know if code-model large is fine to use as a workaround here or if there is a better approach? | 08:49:09 |
 Randy Eckenrode | What does upstream do? | 11:57:15 |
| Randy Eckenrode | Can we use ld64? It should be at the latest version now. | 11:58:08 |
| Randy Eckenrode | I’m also surprised that code-model=large worked. Darwin is always PIE. Absolute address instructions are supposed to be rejected by the linker. | 12:01:29 |
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| niklaskorz | Hm I can't actually see any custom darwin linker settings upstream... | 15:55:26 |
| 8 Jun 2026 |
| niklaskorz | We're not overriding the linker, upstream isn't either, so my assumption is we are already linking with ld64 and upstream might be linking with Apple's proprietary linker (ld-prime) although I have no insight in what macOS and Xcode version their Github actions runner is using. | 09:26:25 |
| niklaskorz | They have a custom runner from namespace.so and it's only referenced as "namespace-profile-mac-large" | 09:27:29 |
| niklaskorz | but I now see their own in-repo nix derivation explicitly sets lld as linker on darwin because of the same error 🙃 | 09:29:17 |
| niklaskorz | https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/88e5c6d2faad2a556deb3250357df6f720b7fb3c/nix/build.nix#L253-L257 | 09:29:24 |
| Randy Eckenrode | If upstream is using LLD, that seems the way to go. We're matching how they build on Darwin, and we’re not doing something LLVM says is not supported very well. | 10:32:07 |
| niklaskorz | Understood, thank you! | 11:04:57 |
| Randy Eckenrode | Boo. Apple almost announced macOS 27 would have no name. I wish that were true. | 17:06:00 |
| samasaur | ooh they've "rebuilt search" including how spotlight works | 17:14:53 |
| samasaur | yaaay, we get to check whether symlinked apps in /Applications work, again... | 17:15:17 |
| Randy Eckenrode | The new search UI is okay-ish, but half the time it doesn’t have what I want even though I know it’s there. I hope they’ve really fixed that. | 17:15:19 |
| Randy Eckenrode | Are they mixing updates between all the platforms together? The Liquid Glass updates for macOS looked like a step in the right direction, but I want to see more of that not iOS stuff. | 17:16:29 |
| Randy Eckenrode | I especially don’t care about visionOS. | 17:16:38 |
| samasaur | Seems like they might be mixing everything together because they don't have a bunch of platform-specific new features to show | 17:21:22 |
| Randy Eckenrode | I don’t mind if they go over every single window in macOS showing how it no longer looks as crappy. | 17:22:04 |
| Randy Eckenrode | I also wouldn’t mind a surprise feature like surprise jails/zones/containers. Snow Leopard got GCD in spite of being a “performance” release. | 17:25:58 |
| Randy Eckenrode | (I’m aware that’s some serious wishful thinking.) | 17:26:47 |
| niklaskorz | Fingers crossed for the platforms state of the union then | 17:32:51 |
| Randy Eckenrode | Apple Intelligence will use Spotlight. Is that new? | 17:33:49 |
| Randy Eckenrode | They also talked about a new scheduler, which is pretty wild for the keynote. Definitely want to watch the platform SotU. | 17:34:24 |
