The cross file is added in the `mkDerivation`. It isn't nice putting
build tool-specific stuff here, but our current architecture gives us
little alternative.
Currently it's not possible to determine the reason why a package is
unavailable without evaluating nixpkgs multiple times with different
settings. eg.
nix-repl> :p android-studio.meta
{ available = false; broken = false; unfree = true; unsupported = true; ... }
The following snippet is an example that uses this information to query
the availability information of all packages in nixpkgs, giving an
overview of all the packages currently marked as broken, etc.
{ pkgs }:
with import <nixpkgs/lib>;
let
mapPkgs =
let mapPkgs' = path: f: mapAttrs (n: v:
let result = builtins.tryEval (v ? meta); in
if !result.success then {} else
if isDerivation v then f (path ++ [n]) v else
if isAttrs v && v.recurseForDerivations or false then mapPkgs' (path ++ [n]) f v else
{}
);
in mapPkgs' [];
getMeta = path: drv:
if drv.meta ? available then
let meta = {
pkg = concatStringsSep "." path;
inherit (drv.meta) broken unfree unsupported insecure;
};
in builtins.trace meta.pkg meta
else {};
metaToList = attrs: flatten (map (v: if v ? pkg then v else metaToList v) (attrValues attrs));
in metaToList (mapPkgs getMeta pkgs)
These files never existed, so best to not leave the reference. If
someone want to step up to maintain this, that would be fine. I don’t
have the hardware to test these out. In addition, someone tried to use
the bootstrap-tools currently built by Hydra and found that they were
broken in some unclear way.
The linker scripts no longer contain store paths, so this does nothing. More
importantly, libpthread.so is not longer a linker script on ARM, so the patching
would corrupt it.
There's a generated header that got comment about the source header
from glibc.dev, which added unwanted runtime dependency. Tested:
nix build -f pkgs/top-level/release.nix stdenvBootstrapTools.{aarch64,i686,x86_64}-linux.test
Fixes#21629
Passing these extra linker flags removes both the semi-random uuid
included in most binaries as well as making the sdk version consistent
instead of based on the current os version.
Load command 8
cmd LC_UUID
cmdsize 24
uuid 70FAF921-5DC8-371C-B814-4F121FADFDF4
Load command 9
cmd LC_VERSION_MIN_MACOSX
cmdsize 16
version 10.12
sdk 10.13
The -macosx_version_min flag isn't strictly necessary since that's
already handled by MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET.
While looking at the graph of all the outputs in my personal binary
cache it became obvious that we have a lot of self references within the
package set. That isn't an isuse by itself. However it increases the
size of the binary cache for every (reproducible) build of a package
that carries references to itself. You can no longer deduplicate the
outputs since they are all unique. One of the ways to get rid of (a few)
references is to rewrite all the symlinks that are currently used to be
relative symlinks. Two build of something that didn't really change but
carries a self-reference can the be store as the same NAR file again.
I quickly hacked together this change to see if that would yield and
success. My bash scripting skills are probably not great but so far it
seem to somewhat work.
- Replaced python override from the final stdenv, instead we
propagate our bootstrap python to stage4 and override both
CF and xnu to use it.
- Removed CF argument from python interpreters, this is redundant
since it's not overidden anymore.
- Inherit CF from stage4, making it the same as the stdenv.
Before, we'd always use `cc = null`, and check for that. The problem is
this breaks for cross compilation to platforms that don't support a C
compiler.
It's a very subtle issue. One might think there is no problem because we
have `stdenvNoCC`, and presumably one would only build derivations that
use that. The problem is that one still wants to use tools at build-time
that are themselves built with a C compiler, and those are gotten via
"splicing". The runtime version of those deps will explode, but the
build time / `buildPackages` versions of those deps will be fine, and
splicing attempts to work this by using `builtins.tryEval` to filter out
any broken "higher priority" packages (runtime is the default and
highest priority) so that both `foo` and `foo.nativeDrv` works.
However, `tryEval` only catches certain evaluation failures (e.g.
exceptions), and not arbitrary failures (such as `cc.attr` when `cc` is
null). This means `tryEval` fails to let us use our build time deps, and
everything comes apart.
The right solution is, as usually, to get rid of splicing. Or, baring
that, to make it so `foo` never works and one has to explicitly do
`foo.*`. But that is a much larger change, and certaily one unsuitable
to be backported to stable.
Given that, we instead make an exception-throwing `cc` attribute, and
create a `hasCC` attribute for those derivations which wish to
condtionally use a C compiler: instead of doing `stdenv.cc or null ==
null` or something similar, one does `stdenv.hasCC`. This allows quering
without "tripping" the exception, while also allowing `tryEval` to work.
No platform without a C compiler is yet wired up by default. That will
be done in a following commit.
Rewrite the `stripHash` helper function with 2 differences:
* Paths starting with `--` will no longer produce an error.
* Use Bash string manipulation instead of shelling out to `grep` and
`cut`. This should be faster.
A bunch of stdenv-internal variables were deleted in
1601a7fcce, but these are needed in the
fixup phase, whereas the rest are just needed for the initial work
(findInputs, etc) before the user phases.
CC @matthewbauer
There were two issues:
* builtins.getEnv was called deep into the nixpkgs tree making it hard
to discover. This is solved by moving the call into
pkgs/top-level/impure.nix
* when the config was explicitly set by the user to false, it would
still try and load the environment variable. This meant that it was
not possible to guarantee the same outcome on two different systems.
Apparently this option trades compression time for size,
and explicitly does so without increasing resources needed in decomp.
Doesn't make tarball creation unbearable, so add it to options!
Before, we very carefully unapplied and reapplied `set -u` so the rest
of Nixpkgs could continue to not fail on undefined variables. Let's rip
off the band-aid.
Go beyond the obvious setup hooks now, with a bit of sed, with a skipped case:
- cc-wrapper's `dontlink`, because it already is handled.
Also, in nix files escaping was manually added.
EMP
A package's meta.license can either be a single license or a list. The
code to check config.whitelistedLicenses and config.blackListedLicenses
wasn't handling this, nor was the showLicense function.
This logic should be in the pkgs/top-level/static.nix. We don’t want
to pollute Nixpkgs with =if stdenv.static=. Also, "static" is not
descriptive. We have two types of static stdenvs, ‘makeStaticLibaries’
and ‘makeStaticBinaries’. We shouldn’t rely on a static boolean like
this.
These can be used to determine whether a ELF file with ELF header is an
executable or shared library.
We can't implement it in pure bash, as bash has problems with null
bytes.
That's very much consistent with the spirit of nix-shell --pure
BTW, nix 1.x shells will be always treated as pure;
in that version detection isn't possible.
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/1bffd83e1a9c
Some SSL libs don't react to $SSL_CERT_FILE.
That actually makes sense to me, as we add this behavior
as nixpkgs-specific, so it seems "safer" to use $NIX_*.
