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You write some Nix code to download said tarball and build it as you said. In fact, the ever present `mkDerivation` often Just Works for autotools and cmake projects.

You can also specify paths to local sources, of course! Instead of src = fetchgit... or whatever, you can just write

  src = ./some-source-dir;
or
  src = ./.;
or whatever
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