Adds the static overlay that can be used to build Nixpkgs statically.
Can be used like:
nix build pkgsStatic.hello
Not all packages build, as some rely on dynamic linking.
(cherry picked from commit 6d90a8b894)
crossOverlays only apply to the packages being built, not the build
packages. It is useful when you don’t care what is used to build your
packages, just what is being built. The idea relies heavily on the
cross compiling infrastructure. Using this implies that we need to
create a cross stdenv.
(cherry picked from commit a3a6ad7a01)
The per-version `default.nix`es just fill in default arguments. It is
much more useful to have the `.override` from the inner `callPackage`,
for finer control. Converting the outer `callPackage` to a plain import
makes the inner one the only one, revealing its `.override`.
The compilers themselves can pull them from `bootPkgs`, where they
should always come from anyways. This enforces that, simplifies that
code, and allows use to avoid more `rec { ... }` too.
A little shim derivation to get this header for Darwin, where it is
needed for cross compilation.
There's no real reason to do glibc and musl like that, but as I'm
maintaining it I suppose I can go overboard like that.
Intuitively, one cares mainly about the host platform: Platforms differ
in meaningful ways but compilation is morally a pure process and
probably doesn't care, or those difference are already abstracted away.
@Dezgeg also empirically confirmed that > 95% of checks are indeed of
the host platform.
Yet these attributes in the old cross infrastructure were defined to be
the build platform, for expediency. And this was never before changed.
(For native builds build and host coincide, so it isn't clear what the
intention was.)
Fixing this doesn't affect native builds, since again they coincide. It
also doesn't affect cross builds of anything in Nixpkgs, as these are no
longer used. It could affect external cross builds, but I deem that
unlikely as anyone thinking about cross would use more explicit
attributes for clarity, all the more so because the rarity of inspecting
the build platform.
I don't know when we can/should remove them, but this at least gets
people to stop using them. The preferred alternatives also date back to
17.09 so writing forward-compatable code without extra conditions is
easy.
Beginning with these as they are the least controversial.
This, apparently, is not an official release (it's tagged, but the tarball is not
available on the official site), but this repo is the official repo mentioned on
the official site.
This fixes a bunch of very annoying bugs present in 0.99.4, e.g.
```
$ FBReader filename
```
does not crash anymore. Yay!
