From 4e2ae289ce87dd25ae5ebea101900f34686f986a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Valentin Gagarin <valentin@gagarin.work>
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 00:30:21 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] docs: fix devmode for manuals

hard-coding a relative path will use the calling process's working
directory, but we want the path relative to the Nix expression.
---
 doc/doc-support/package.nix | 2 +-
 nixos/doc/manual/shell.nix  | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/doc-support/package.nix b/doc/doc-support/package.nix
index bc5566f3cbd3e..f316656a585c1 100644
--- a/doc/doc-support/package.nix
+++ b/doc/doc-support/package.nix
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ stdenvNoCC.mkDerivation (
       shell =
         let
           devmode' = devmode.override {
-            buildArgs = "./.";
+            buildArgs = toString ../.;
             open = "/share/doc/nixpkgs/manual.html";
           };
           nixos-render-docs-redirects' = writeShellScriptBin "redirects" "${lib.getExe nixos-render-docs-redirects} --file ${toString ../redirects.json} $@";
diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/shell.nix b/nixos/doc/manual/shell.nix
index 4f6ab400f22c7..6e9d253e47183 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/shell.nix
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/shell.nix
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ let
   common = import ./common.nix;
   inherit (common) outputPath indexPath;
   devmode = pkgs.devmode.override {
-    buildArgs = "../../release.nix -A manualHTML.${builtins.currentSystem}";
+    buildArgs = ''${toString ../../release.nix} -A manualHTML.${builtins.currentSystem}'';
     open = "/${outputPath}/${indexPath}";
   };
   nixos-render-docs-redirects = pkgs.writeShellScriptBin "redirects" "${pkgs.lib.getExe pkgs.nixos-render-docs-redirects} --file ${toString ./redirects.json} $@";