We need this stuff to be available in lib so make-derivation.nix can
access it to construct the Meson cross file.
This has a couple of other advantages:
- It makes Rust less special. Now figuring out what Rust calls a
platform is the same as figuring out what Linux or QEMU call it.
- We can unify the schema used to define Rust targets, and the schema
used to access those values later. Just like you can set "config"
or "system" in a platform definition, and then access those same
keys on the elaborated platform, you can now set "rustcTarget" in
your crossSystem, and then access "stdenv.hostPlatform.rustcTarget"
in your code.
"rustcTarget", "rustcTargetSpec", "cargoShortTarget", and
"cargoEnvVarTarget" have the "rustc" and "cargo" prefixes because
these are not exposed to code by the compiler, and are not
standardized. The arch/os/etc. variables are all named to match the
forms in the Rust target spec JSON.
The new rust.target-family only takes a list, since we don't need to
worry about backwards compatibility when that name is used.
The old APIs are all still functional with no warning for now, so that
it's possible for external code to use a single API on both 23.05 and
23.11. We can introduce the warnings once 23.05 is EOL, and make them
hard errors when 23.11 is EOL.
We have several cross-compilation bugs that show up if
hostPlatform!=buildPlatform yet
hostPlatform.config==buildPlatform.config.
These bugs have appeared and disappeared as we've fiddled with the
definition of equality for platform objects. This commit adds a
clear-cut case where they are *not* equal and never will be, so we
can test it.
gnu-config will ignore the portion of a triple matching the regex
`e?abi.*$` when determining the validity of a triple. In other
words, `i386-linuxabichickenlips` is a valid triple.
This commit updates our parsing routines to match gnu-config.
I was recently surprised to discover that it is in fact possible to
shoehorn ABI flavors into nix doubles in a way which preserves their
property of being a (non-canonical) subset of the valid gnu-config
triples. This commit is required in order to exploit that discovery
to add automatic detection of ILP32 platforms (64-bit void*, 32-bit
int, like the Apple Watch and MIPS n32) to Nix.
The Minimalist Gnu for Windows distribution comes with support for
the traditional msvcrt libc, as well as ucrt64 libc. The latter
being the newer universal compiler runtime. We follow the msys2
environment naming convention[1]:
| name | toolchain | arch | libc | libc++ |
|------------|-----------|---------|--------|-----------|
| mingw32 | gcc | i686 | msvcrt | libstdc++ |
| mingw64 | gcc | x86_64 | msvcrt | libstdc++ |
| ucrt64 | gcc | x86_64 | ucrt | libstdc++ |
| clang32 | llvm | i686 | ucrt | libc++ |
| clang64 | llvm | x86_64 | ucrt | libc++ |
| clangarm64 | llvm | aarch64 | ucrt | libc++ |
For now nixpkgs only supports the first three with this commit.
--
[1]: https://www.msys2.org/docs/environments/
Add support for Nvidia's Bluefield 2 plattform as a compilation
target. There exists a version with and without crypto support,
while the crypto supported version is the most common one.
Support for the non-crypto version can be easily added in the future,
if needed.
For a datasheet of the hardware, see:
https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/Data-Center/documents/datasheet-nvidia-bluefield-2-dpu.pdf
Signed-off-by: Markus Theil <theil.markus@gmail.com>
Because downstream code expects to use `==` on platform attrsets, we
are unfortunately not able to throw a useful error message when the
`sharedLibrary` attribute is accessed.
When users do a comparison like:
stdenv.hostPlatform == pkgsStatic.stdenv.hostPlatform
... in a situation where `stdenv.hostPlatform.hasSharedLibraries`,
they expect this to return `false`. Unfortunately Nix does a deep
equality comparison here, and ends up forcing the
`pkgsStatic.stdenv.hostPlatform.extensions.sharedLibrary` attribute,
which throws the error.
Rather than returning `null`, this commit instead simply omits the
`extensions.sharedLibrary` attribute. This provides the user with a
more-useful error message: instead of waiting until the `null` is
used (and hoping that produces an error), the user will get an error
about the `extensions.sharedLibrary` attribute being missing, at the
position where it was referenced.
Big thanks to @trofi for his PR to add
`NIX_VALIDATE_EVAL_NONDETERMINISM` to Nix, which I am now using. It
made tracking this down really easy!
Fixes#244045
This commit adds `hasSharedLibraries` to `lib.systems`.
We need `plat.hasSharedLibraries` in order to know whether or not to
expect `gcc` (and many other tools) to emit shared libraries (like
`libgcc_s.so`). Many of the GNU build scripts are smart enough that
if you configure them with `--enable-shared` on a platform (such as
`arm-none-eabi`) that doesn't support dynamic linking, they will
simply skip the shared libraries instead of aborting the
`configurePhase`. Unfortunately the missing shared libraries in the
final build product cause very hard-to-troubleshoot problems later
on.
The alternative to introducing `hasSharedLibraries` would be to set
`isStatic` in these situations. However doing so causes
`make-derivation.nix` to insert `-static` between the `pname` and
`hostPlatform` suffix, which is undesirable.
If at some point in the future we eliminate the `-static` suffix,
then `hasSharedLibraries` can be made equal to `!isStatic`.
toLosslessStringMaybe is not used by anything other than lib/tests,
so it can be private to that file.
I don't think this function was terribly well thought-through. If
people start using it, we will become permanently dependent on the
ability to test platforms for equality. It also makes the
elaboration process more fragile, because it encourages code outside
of nixpkgs to become sensitive to the minute details of how
elaboration happens.
The eminent Donald E. Knuth should be recognized as having equal
standing with such entities as IBM, Apple, and the Personal
Computer. We should acknowledge this by including him as a "vendor".
Also, `gnu-config` recognizes `mmix-knuth-*` triples (and in fact
requires `vendor="knuth"` when `cpu="mmix"`) -- so we sort of have
to. But we should do it anyways.
We already have examples for these, but since we didn't actually
recognise the doubles, it wasn't possible to build any packages for
them without setting allowUnsupportedSystem.
I imagine this was supposed to be rustc = args.rustc, like the other
two lines. This meant that we accepted both rust and rustc
attributes, with the same effect. I doubt anybody was using the
undocumented, probably-accidental "rust" spelling, but we should
remove it before somebody starts.
In fact, we don't need to set rustc here at all, because no value
platforms.select could return will ever include a rustc key (unlike
the other two), so then rustc will be filled in later, when args is
merged into final.
It makes sense to allow platform definitions to opt out of having libc
at all. One use case would be targetting some obscure new Linux
target that doesn't have a libc implementation yet, and another is
UEFI, which is basically libc-less Windows.
Not having libc is not commonly specified in (GNU) triples (even
Linux's build system will just target either -gnu or -musl depending
on the platform), so instead, we use a separate attribute for it.
- Christmas is over!
- Upstream has changed the name of the target triplet used for the JS
backend from js-unknown-ghcjs to javascript-unknown-ghcjs, since Cabal
calls the architecture "javascript":
6636b67023
Since the triplet is made up anyways, i.e. autoconf does not support
it and Rust uses different triplets for its emscripten backends, we'll
just change it as well.
- Upstream fixed the problem with ar(1) being invoked incorrectly by stage0:
e987e345c8
There is no "aarch64" CPU family — it counts as "arm", as can be seen
from the definition of isAarch64 above.
Checked that stdenv.hostPlatform.isEfi is still true on aarch64-linux.
In the past, most (if not all) armv8 CPUs could also execute armv7. However,
with the advent of Apple Silicon, aarch64 CPUs without any aarch32 capabilities
are now wide-spread among users.
Cross-compilation of anything downstream of gtk3 requires qemu (due to
gobject-introspection) with --target-list=*-linux-user. Without this commit,
those qemu builds will fail on a powerpc64le host due to qemu being configured
with --cpu=powerpc64le instead of --cpu=ppc64le. Unfortunately the build
failure message from qemu in this situation is extremely cryptic.
The root cause turns out not to be the qemu expression, but rather the fact that
on powerpc64le hostPlatform.uname.processor returns the gnu-name (powerpc64le)
for the cpu instead of the linux-name (ppc64le) for the cpu.
uname.processor on mips64el also needs adjustment -- the Linux-name is "mips64"
for both big and little endian (unlike powerpc64, where the Linux-name includes
a "le" suffix):
```
nix@oak:/tmp$ uname -m; lscpu | head -n2
mips64
Architecture: mips64
Byte Order: Little Endian
```
uname.processor on powerpc32 has also been adjusted.
The main purpose of this PR is to make the basis for
`mkSkeletonFromList`'s decision between `cpu-kernel-libcabi` vs
`cpu-vendor-os` clear, without changing its behavior. The existing
code obscures this decision behind a sequence of prioritized matches
(i.e. `if-then`) which jump around between different coordinates.
Two side benefits of this PR:
1. It makes the root cause of #165836 obvious: we are missing a case
for `cpu-vendor-libcabi`. This is why nixpkgs stumbles over
`*-none-*`.
2. It illuminates some very weird corner cases in the existing
logic, like `*-${vendor}-ghcjs` overriding the `vendor` field,
and `mingw32` being transformed into `windows` in some cases.
Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
A tricky thing about FreeBSD is that there is no stable ABI across
versions. That means that putting in the version as part of the config
string is paramount.
We have a parsed represenation that separates name versus version to
accomplish this. We include FreeBSD versions 12 and 13 to demonstrate
how it works.
Move already implemented functionality to the upper level so
it could be used in a more generic way.
Signed-off-by: Ivan Nikolaenko <ivan.nikolaenko@unikie.com>
```
nix-repl> pkgsCross.arm-embedded.stdenv.hostPlatform.emulatorAvailable pkgsCross.arm-embedded.buildPackages
false
nix-repl> pkgsCross.aarch64-multiplatform.stdenv.hostPlatform.emulatorAvailable pkgsCross.aarch64-multiplatform.buildPackages
true
```
will be useful for stuff like handling https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/187109
The comment in lib/systems/default.nix for uname.processor indicates that it
should match `uname -p`. I tried that command and found that it reports
`unknown` on all of these machines:
- `x86_64-linux`
- `aarch64-linux`
- `mips64el-linux`
- `powerpc64le-linux`
The command `uname -m` reports the expected value on all of the above.
I think the comment is wrong. So I fixed it.
In Nixpkgs, we assume that the "config" field is a canonicalized GNU
triple. I noticed that non-canonical values were being used here,
because the pkgsCross.mips64el-linux-gnu triples did not contain the
vendor field, but the pkgsCross.mips64el-linux-gnu.pkgsStatic did.
Here, I've run all the MIPS triples in lib.systems.examples through
config.sub to canonicalize them. I think this will avoid nasty
surprises in future.
Tested by building Nix and the bootstrap files for
pkgsCross.mips64el-linux-gnu.
This has been deprecated for a long time, and it's doubtful it had any
users to start with. And having an undisablable warning when
enumarating platforms is not good.
These servers apparently no longer exist, since September 2, 2021[1].
If somebody needs this for non-Scaleway machines, they should suggest
its reintroduction with a different name.
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27192757
Very confusingly, the `isPowerPC` predicate in
`lib/systems/inspect.nix` does *not* match `powerpc64le`!
This is because `isPowerPC` is defined as
isPowerPC = { cpu = cpuTypes.powerpc; };
Where `cpuTypes.powerpc` is:
{ bits = 32; significantByte = bigEndian; family = "power"; };
This means that the `isPowerPC` predicate actually only matches the
subset of machines marketed under this name which happen to be 32-bit
and running in big-endian mode which is equivalent to:
with stdenv.hostPlatform; isPower && isBigEndian && is32bit
This seems like a sharp edge that people could easily cut themselves
on. In fact, that has already happened: in
`linux/kernel/common-config.nix` there is a test which will always
fail:
(stdenv.hostPlatform.isPowerPC && stdenv.hostPlatform.is64bit)
A more subtle case of the strict isPowerPC being used instead of the
moreg general isPower accidentally are the GHC expressions:
Update pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/8.10.7.nix
Update pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/8.8.4.nix
Update pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/9.2.2.nix
Update pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/9.0.2.nix
Update pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/head.nix
Since the remaining legitimate use sites of isPowerPC are so few, remove
the isPowerPC predicate completely. The alternative expression above is
noted in the release notes as an alternative.
Co-authored-by: sternenseemann <sternenseemann@systemli.org>
