nixpkgs/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/5.20/default.nix
Dan Peebles 732495017b perl-5.20: break dependency on the compiler that built it
This is a major closure size reduction on Darwin, and probably a less
significant one on Linux. On darwin, retaining the compiler means adding
clang and its dependency llvm to the perl closure, which gives us ~400MB
of extra stuff. Considering that Nix itself depends on this version of
perl, that makes cutting a new Nix release rather unpleasaont Darwin.

After this patch, I was able to get the `nixUnstable` closure down to
21MB after feeding it into a .tar.xz (123MB before compression). There's
still room for improvement but this should carry us over until we split
outputs.
2016-01-07 23:01:02 -05:00

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{ stdenv, fetchurl, enableThreading ? stdenv ? glibc }:
# We can only compile perl with threading on platforms where we have a
# real glibc in the stdenv.
#
# Instead of silently building an unthreaded perl if this is not the
# case, we force callers to disableThreading explicitly, therefore
# documenting the platforms where the perl is not threaded.
#
# In the case of stdenv linux boot stage1 it's not possible to use
# threading because of the simpleness of the bootstrap glibc, so we
# use enableThreading = false there.
assert enableThreading -> (stdenv ? glibc);
let
libc = if stdenv.cc.libc or null != null then stdenv.cc.libc else "/usr";
in
with stdenv.lib;
stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
name = "perl-5.20.3";
src = fetchurl {
url = "mirror://cpan/authors/id/S/SH/SHAY/${name}.tar.gz";
sha256 = "0jlvpd5l5nk7lzfd4akdg1sw6vinbkj6izclyyr0lrbidfky691m";
};
outputs = [ "out" "man" ];
patches =
[ # Do not look in /usr etc. for dependencies.
./no-sys-dirs.patch
]
++ optional stdenv.isSunOS ./ld-shared.patch
++ stdenv.lib.optional stdenv.isDarwin [ ./cpp-precomp.patch ];
# There's an annoying bug on sandboxed Darwin in Perl's Cwd.pm where it looks for pwd
# in /bin/pwd and /usr/bin/pwd and then falls back on just "pwd" if it can't get them
# while at the same time erasing the PATH environment variable so it unconditionally
# fails. The code in question is guarded by a check for Mac OS, but the patch below
# doesn't have any runtime effect on other platforms.
postPatch = stdenv.lib.optional stdenv.isDarwin ''
pwd="$(type -P pwd)"
substituteInPlace dist/PathTools/Cwd.pm \
--replace "/bin/pwd" "$pwd"
'';
sandboxProfile = stdenv.lib.sandbox.allow "ipc-sysv-sem";
# Build a thread-safe Perl with a dynamic libperls.o. We need the
# "installstyle" option to ensure that modules are put under
# $out/lib/perl5 - this is the general default, but because $out
# contains the string "perl", Configure would select $out/lib.
# Miniperl needs -lm. perl needs -lrt.
configureFlags =
[ "-de"
"-Dcc=cc"
"-Uinstallusrbinperl"
"-Dinstallstyle=lib/perl5"
"-Duseshrplib"
"-Dlocincpth=${libc}/include"
"-Dloclibpth=${libc}/lib"
]
++ optional stdenv.isSunOS "-Dcc=gcc"
++ optional enableThreading "-Dusethreads";
configureScript = "${stdenv.shell} ./Configure";
dontAddPrefix = true;
enableParallelBuilding = true;
preConfigure =
''
configureFlags="$configureFlags -Dprefix=$out -Dman1dir=$out/share/man/man1 -Dman3dir=$out/share/man/man3"
${optionalString stdenv.isArm ''
configureFlagsArray=(-Dldflags="-lm -lrt")
''}
'' + optionalString stdenv.isDarwin ''
substituteInPlace hints/darwin.sh --replace "env MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.3" ""
'' + optionalString (!enableThreading) ''
# We need to do this because the bootstrap doesn't have a static libpthread
sed -i 's,\(libswanted.*\)pthread,\1,g' Configure
'';
preBuild = optionalString (!(stdenv ? cc && stdenv.cc.nativeTools))
''
# Make Cwd work on NixOS (where we don't have a /bin/pwd).
substituteInPlace dist/PathTools/Cwd.pm --replace "'/bin/pwd'" "'$(type -tP pwd)'"
'';
# Inspired by nuke-references, which I can't depend on because it uses perl. Perhaps it should just use sed :)
postInstall = ''
self=$(echo $out | sed -n "s|^$NIX_STORE/\\([a-z0-9]\{32\}\\)-.*|\1|p")
sed -i "/$self/b; s|$NIX_STORE/[a-z0-9]\{32\}-|$NIX_STORE/eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-|g" "$out"/lib/perl5/*/*/Config.pm
sed -i "/$self/b; s|$NIX_STORE/[a-z0-9]\{32\}-|$NIX_STORE/eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-|g" "$out"/lib/perl5/*/*/Config_heavy.pl
'';
setupHook = ./setup-hook.sh;
passthru.libPrefix = "lib/perl5/site_perl";
meta = {
homepage = https://www.perl.org/;
description = "The standard implementation of the Perl 5 programmming language";
maintainers = [ maintainers.eelco ];
platforms = platforms.all;
};
}