Nix build is failing

[JuanCabre]

We are a group of researchers from the Communication Networks group at TU Dresden in Germany, and we are very interested in your code. Unfortunately, we are currently unable to build the environment using Nix. The problem seems to arise when compiling NUPACK. At some point in the installation, there is this error:

mkdir -p ../../../bin
gcc -DNUPACK_SAMPLE  -std=c99 -O3 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -I../../.>
  read_command_line.o -o ../../../bin/design -lm \
  ../../../lib/libdesign_pfunc_utils.a ../../../lib/libpfunc.a ../../../lib/libmt19937.a ../.>
/nix/store/039g378vc3pc3dvi9dzdlrd0i4q93qwf-binutils-2.39/bin/ld: design_utils.o:(.bss+0x820)>
/nix/store/039g378vc3pc3dvi9dzdlrd0i4q93qwf-binutils-2.39/bin/ld: design_utils.o:(.bss+0x1e0)>
/nix/store/039g378vc3pc3dvi9dzdlrd0i4q93qwf-binutils-2.39/bin/ld: design_utils.o:(.bss+0x40):>
/nix/store/039g378vc3pc3dvi9dzdlrd0i4q93qwf-binutils-2.39/bin/ld: design_utils.o:(.bss+0x10):>
/nix/store/039g378vc3pc3dvi9dzdlrd0i4q93qwf-binutils-2.39/bin/ld: design_utils.o:(.bss+0xc): >
/nix/store/039g378vc3pc3dvi9dzdlrd0i4q93qwf-binutils-2.39/bin/ld: design_utils.o:(.bss+0x8): >
/nix/store/039g378vc3pc3dvi9dzdlrd0i4q93qwf-binutils-2.39/bin/ld: design_engine.o:(.bss+0x24)>
/nix/store/039g378vc3pc3dvi9dzdlrd0i4q93qwf-binutils-2.39/bin/ld: design_engine.o:(.bss+0x2c)>
/nix/store/039g378vc3pc3dvi9dzdlrd0i4q93qwf-binutils-2.39/bin/ld: design_engine.o:(.bss+0x94)>
/nix/store/039g378vc3pc3dvi9dzdlrd0i4q93qwf-binutils-2.39/bin/ld: design_engine.o:(.bss+0x90)>
/nix/store/039g378vc3pc3dvi9dzdlrd0i4q93qwf-binutils-2.39/bin/ld: design_engine.o:(.bss+0x80)>
/nix/store/039g378vc3pc3dvi9dzdlrd0i4q93qwf-binutils-2.39/bin/ld: design_engine.o:(.bss+0x20)>
/nix/store/039g378vc3pc3dvi9dzdlrd0i4q93qwf-binutils-2.39/bin/ld: design_engine.o:(.bss+0x28)>
/nix/store/039g378vc3pc3dvi9dzdlrd0i4q93qwf-binutils-2.39/bin/ld: design_engine.o:(.bss+0x34)>
/nix/store/039g378vc3pc3dvi9dzdlrd0i4q93qwf-binutils-2.39/bin/ld: design_engine.o:(.bss+0x30)>
/nix/store/039g378vc3pc3dvi9dzdlrd0i4q93qwf-binutils-2.39/bin/ld: design_engine.o:(.bss+0x98)>
/nix/store/039g378vc3pc3dvi9dzdlrd0i4q93qwf-binutils-2.39/bin/ld: design_engine.o:(.bss+0xa8)>
/nix/store/039g378vc3pc3dvi9dzdlrd0i4q93qwf-binutils-2.39/bin/ld: design_engine.o:(.bss+0x280>
/nix/store/039g378vc3pc3dvi9dzdlrd0i4q93qwf-binutils-2.39/bin/ld: design_engine.o:(.bss+0x8c0>
/nix/store/039g378vc3pc3dvi9dzdlrd0i4q93qwf-binutils-2.39/bin/ld: design_engine.o:(.bss+0xa4)>
/nix/store/039g378vc3pc3dvi9dzdlrd0i4q93qwf-binutils-2.39/bin/ld: design_engine.o:(.bss+0x8):>
/nix/store/039g378vc3pc3dvi9dzdlrd0i4q93qwf-binutils-2.39/bin/ld: design_engine.o:(.bss+0x10)>
/nix/store/039g378vc3pc3dvi9dzdlrd0i4q93qwf-binutils-2.39/bin/ld: design_engine.o:(.bss+0x18)>
/nix/store/039g378vc3pc3dvi9dzdlrd0i4q93qwf-binutils-2.39/bin/ld: design_engine.o:(.bss+0x38)>
/nix/store/039g378vc3pc3dvi9dzdlrd0i4q93qwf-binutils-2.39/bin/ld: design_engine.o:(.bss+0x40)>
/nix/store/039g378vc3pc3dvi9dzdlrd0i4q93qwf-binutils-2.39/bin/ld: design_engine.o:(.bss+0x50)>
/nix/store/039g378vc3pc3dvi9dzdlrd0i4q93qwf-binutils-2.39/bin/ld: design_engine.o:(.bss+0x60)>
/nix/store/039g378vc3pc3dvi9dzdlrd0i4q93qwf-binutils-2.39/bin/ld: design_engine.o:(.bss+0x70)>
/nix/store/039g378vc3pc3dvi9dzdlrd0i4q93qwf-binutils-2.39/bin/ld: design_engine.o:(.bss+0x9c)>
/nix/store/039g378vc3pc3dvi9dzdlrd0i4q93qwf-binutils-2.39/bin/ld: design_engine.o:(.bss+0xa0)>
/nix/store/039g378vc3pc3dvi9dzdlrd0i4q93qwf-binutils-2.39/bin/ld: design_engine.o:(.bss+0xb0)>
/nix/store/039g378vc3pc3dvi9dzdlrd0i4q93qwf-binutils-2.39/bin/ld: design_engine.o:(.bss+0xe0)>
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [Makefile:52: design] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/build/nupack3.0.6/src/design/single-complex'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:67: design/single-complex] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/build/nupack3.0.6/src'
make: *** [Makefile:10: all] Error 2

[cgevans]

This is most likely because recent versions of gcc require -fcommon for that version of nupack to compile.