I hate the thing too even though I made it, and rather just get rid of
it. But we can't do that yet. In the meantime, this brings us more
inline with autoconf and will make it slightly easier for me to write a
pkg-config wrapper, which we need.
flat hashes can be substituted through hashed-mirrors, while recursive
hashes can’t. This is especially important for Bazel since the bazel
fetch dependencies can come from multiple different methods (git,
http, ftp, etc.). To do this, we create tar archives from the
output/external directory, which is then extracted to build. All of
the Bazel hashes are all updated.
@the-kenny did a good job in the past and is set as maintainer in many package,
however since 2017-2018 he stopped contributing. To create less confusion
in pull requests when people try to request his feedback, I removed him as
maintainer from all packages.
The nss update is needed for security update of firefox.
For linux platforms only about 1k aarch64 rebuilds are missing;
the diff on Hydra looks OK. Darwin needs 20k more rebuilds,
but I don't think we want to wait for that.
The old `CC=.. CXX= .. meson ...` env var hack I removed in
3c00ca03a2 had a side effect of ensuring
that Meson always had access to a native C compiler, which unforunately
it expects in most cases. Thankfully, that will be fixed soon.
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.
See comment in code and the PR it references,
https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/pull/6827, for details.
We can remove entries from the cross file because they will be gotten
from env vars now.
Using `bazel_self` for self-references makes managing bazel versions
easier: their less risk of changing defaults or copy pasted code for no
versions leading to incorrect self-references.
