- The package has a non-standard build interface;
fixed with hooks for genericBuild
- The graph library requires x11 and the configure
script looks in absolute directory paths to find
X11. Fixed by using patched configure script from
which the absolute paths have been removed. As
a consequence the graph library is not build until
we have X11 support in Nix.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=1188
* Remove precompiled headers, which are nice except that
A) they don't work; and
B) they make gcc take up 270% more disk space.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=1129
* Tried to upgrade Firefox to 0.9, but it's too broken. It's
basically impossible to build it automatically. Firefox must be
started once as a user with write permission to the Firefox
directory to generate some files, and this can only be done
interactively (apparently). Hopefully 0.10 fixes this. Firefox
also barfs with link errors if the flag `--enable-single-profile' is
not used.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=1067
* Zapping/VLC/MPlayer: use libXv.
* MPlayer: upgrade to 1.0pre4.
* Zapping: add libXext to the rpath. I don't understand why this is
necessary. Zapping doesn't itself link against libXext, though some
of its dependencies do. (Maybe this is due to `--export-dynamic'?)
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=990
libgcc of the gcc being built, not the gcc building it.
* Only include a directory in the rpath of an executable/library if it
is actually used. Before, the `/lib' directory of every build input
was added to the rpath, causing many unnecessary retained
dependencies. For instance, Perl has a `/lib' directory, but most
applications whose build process uses Perl don't actually link
against Perl. (Also added a test for this.)
* After building glibc, remove glibcbug, to prevent a retained
dependency on gcc.
* Add a newline after `building X' in GNU Make.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=911
adds all directories specified in `ACLOCAL_PATH' to the `aclocal'
command line as `-I' flags. Also, it provides a setup hook that
adds the `.../share/aclocal' directory of every build input to
`ACLOCAL_PATH'.
* Upgraded Libtool.
* Graphviz requires the X Athena widgets, which in turn requires the X
miscellaneous utilities library; added those. However it doesn't
work yet since libXt is broken.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=888
* Make builders unexecutable by removing the hash-bang line and
execute permission.
* Convert calls to `derivation' to `mkDerivation'.
* Remove `system' and `stdenv' attributes from calls to
`mkDerivation'. These transformations were all done automatically,
so it is quite possible I broke stuff.
* Put the `mkDerivation' function in stdenv/generic.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=874
store, rather than outside (such as /bin/sh).
For instance, the Nix expression for the ATerm library now looks
like this:
{stdenv, fetchurl}:
stdenv.mkDerivation {
name = "aterm-2.0.5";
builder = ./builder.sh;
...
}
where `mkDerivation' is a helper function in `stdenv' that massages
the given attribute set into using the bash shell that is part of
the standard environment:
mkDerivation = attrs: derivation (att s // {
builder = pkgs.bash ~ /bin/sh;
args = ["-e" attrs.builder];
stdenv = (...);
system = (...).system;
});
Note that this makes it unnecessary to set the `stdenv' and `system'
attributes, since `mkDerivation' already does that.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=866
whether the system header file directory actually exists (when
calling fixinc), so passing a non-existent directory no longer
works. Instead we make a empty dummy directory.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=858
builders for typical Autoconf-style to be much shorten, e.g.,
. $stdenv/setup
genericBuild
The generic builder does lots of stuff automatically:
- Unpacks source archives specified by $src or $srcs (it knows about
gzip, bzip2, tar, zip, and unpacked source trees).
- Determines the source tree.
- Applies patches specified by $patches.
- Fixes libtool not to search for libraries in /lib etc.
- Runs `configure'.
- Runs `make'.
- Runs `make install'.
- Strips debug information from static libraries.
- Writes nested log information (in the format accepted by
`log2xml').
There are also lots of hooks and variables to customise the generic
builder. See `stdenv/generic/docs.txt'.
* Adapted the base packages (i.e., the ones used by stdenv) to use the
generic builder.
* We now use `curl' instead of `wget' to download files in `fetchurl'.
* Neither `curl' nor `wget' are part of stdenv. We shouldn't
encourage people to download stuff in builders (impure!).
* Updated some packages.
* `buildinputs' is now `buildInputs' (but the old name also works).
* `findInputs' in the setup script now prevents inputs from being
processed multiple times (which could happen, e.g., if an input was
a propagated input of several other inputs; this caused the size
variables like $PATH to blow up exponentially in the worst case).
* Patched GNU Make to write nested log information in the format
accepted by `log2xml'. Also, prior to writing the build command,
Make now writes a line `building X' to indicate what is being
built. This is unfortunately often obscured by the gigantic tool
invocations in many Makefiles. The actual build commands are marked
`unimportant' so that they don't clutter pages generated by
`log2html'.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=845
- gcc/ld-wrappers have been factored out into a separate
derivation. This allows a working gcc to be installed in the user
environment. (Previously the Nix gcc didn't work because it
needed a whole bunch of flags to point to glibc.)
- Better modularity: packages can specify hooks into the setup
scripts. For instance, setup no longer knows about the
PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable; pkgconfig can set it up instead.
- gcc not longer depends on binutils. This simplifies the bootstrap
process.
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a big problem, so I decided to require to user to get the
file and put it in some location in the file system. wget
doesn't seem to accept the file scheme however, so I had to
move the copying into the builder itself. The builder checks
the md5 hash of the downloaded file. Maybe having a separate
'fetchfile' would be useful to make a file in the outside
world pure. I tried to add this to build-support, but this
obviously did not work. I still committed it. Just remove it
if you think that it sucks.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=716
and automake. Copying the files in $libtool/share/aclocal to
$autoconf/share/aclocal does not work (and causes collisions when
installing the tools in the user environment). The solution seems to
be to install the three distributions in one single $out directory,
i.e., consider them as one package.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=597
aggregation in all-packages-generic: autotools
building strategoxt from svn
not complete yet since autconf cannot find libtool
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=596
