GHC ships a [modified] config.sub so that js-unknown-ghcjs is accepted
by autotools. For some platforms, we automatically update config.sub
from upstream's source in order to prevent that builds fail when we use
an outdated config.sub. In this case of course the perfectly up to date
config.sub would reject the target platform we are trying to use, so we
must disable this mechanism for now.
I have asked in the GHC IRC channel if there are any plans on
upstreaming the platform. It would be nice if were able to drop this
change in the future.
This is now possible by building a cross compiler for js-unknown-ghjs
using `pkgsCross.ghcjs.buildPackages.haskell.compiler.ghcHEAD`.
To allow this, the following things needed to be done:
* Disable dependencies that wouldn't work:
- Don't pull in ncurses for terminfo
- Don't pull in libffi
- Don't pull in libiconv
- Don't enable the LLVM backend
- Enable gmp-less native-bignum backend
* Use emscripten instead of a C compiler. The way this works is inspired
by emscriptenPackages, but avoids the following flaws:
- Instead of using a custom configurePhase, just set
`configureScript = "emconfigure ./configure";` which is much simpler.
- Create writable EM_CACHE before configuring, as configure scripts
want to compile test programs.
Additionally, we need to disable the targetCC check, as it is not
applicable with emscripten which never appears as part of stdenv.
* Use generic $configureScript in installPhase to be able to work with
our emconfigure trick.
Note that the corresponding Haskell package set does not work yet. Cabal
doesn't seem to like GHC 9.7 yet and the generic-builder is clueless
about the JS backend.
gmp is part of buildInputs _and_ depsTargetTarget, so we need to check
the host and target platform to be correct. In practice this doesn't
change much though, as gmp.meta.platforms is _quite_ liberal.
Finally building a cross compiler using hadrian is possible, but there
are some outstanding issues regarding external libraries in the package
db which causes issues with ghc-bignum.
There is a code generation bug in Cabal-3.6.3.0. For packages configured with
--enable-relocatable, Cabal would generate code that doesn't compile.
There isn't an upstream issue, but the issue is described in the commit that
fixed it:
6c796218c9
It was fixed in Cabal-3.8.*
Backport the fix to the Cabal library that ships with ghc-9.2.4
Co-authored-by: sternenseemann <sternenseemann@systemli.org>
Closes#200063.
Initial port of our GHC Nix expressions to the new hadrian build system,
as it has become required after 9.4. Unfortunately there are some
regressions affecting us, namely the inability to install a GHC
cross-compiler at the moment (see issue linked in relevant error
message). This means that a lot of specific configuration snippets for
cross-platforms and static compilation have been ported from make
speculatively, as we are unable to test them for the moment.
This shortens the bootstrap chain for 9.4.1 and should be kinder on
rebuilds. It requires some messing around in the configure file, since
it is not officially supported by upstream (but known to work). For now
it saves us the hassle of adding another bindist to nixpkgs. When we
support hadrian, we'll be able to use the already packaged 9.2.2
bindist.
Since the musl / alpine bindist now uses the GMP backend, we need to
learn to tell Hadrian bindists about GMP. Hadrian bindists no longer
have the buildinfo files, instead we need to patch the package db before
installing and recache it afterwards which is not too hard, luckily.
Same goes for libiconv and base as well as libffi and rts on
darwin (those bindists are all produced using hadrian).
See also: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/21554#note_431000
Note that pkgsMusl.haskell.compiler.ghc922Binary still has severe
issues: It can't produce shared libraries because the bindist ships
none (and using the GMP backend has a hard requirement for shared
objects, apparently) and ghci segfaults for unknown reasons at the
moment. However, I've successfully compiled hadrian with it so far, so
perhaps it's good enough.
This was disabled basically by accident before.
The links are jacked, but that was is true for every package; it is not
unique to this PR. I fixed it upstream here:
https://github.com/haskell/haddock/pull/1482
but it's not in any release distributions yet I don't think.
Fixes#171841
Otherwise attempt to build ghcHEAD from local checkout fails as:
$ nix build -L --impure --expr 'with import ~/nm {}; haskell.compiler.ghcHEAD.overrideAttrs (oa: { src = ./.; patches = []; nativeBuildInputs = oa.nativeBuildInputs ++ [ git ]; })' --keep-failed
...
ghc> checking C++ standard library flavour... ./configure: line 11487: /nix/store/r7r10qvsqlnvbzjkjinvscjlahqbxifl-gcc-wrapper-11.3.0/bin/cxx: No such file or directory
I think 'cxx' is not provided by stdenv.
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>
At some point in hadrian's installation Makefile used for e.g. alpine
bindists 'xxx' is used as a placeholder for three spaces and later
substituted back. This breaks if the store path itself contains 'xxx'.
We adapt an upstream patch which will be part of 9.4 (and presumably
9.0.3 and 9.2.3) as a workaround for this issue for 8.10.2 and 8.10.7
which are the binary GHCs in nixpkgs affected.
The issue we are working around is concerned with the lack of dead
code elimination in the aarch64-darwin LLVM codegen backend. Thus
the relevant condition is the target platform, not the host
platform as checked previously.
The condition used in the past to detect iOS was "is this
aarch64-darwin"? Since we have aarch64-darwin devices running macOS
nowadays which do allow large address space, let's use the more accurate
flag.
enableDwarf requires elfutils on the host, which doesn't support darwin.
Instead of hardcoded isDarwin/isWindows, switch to self-documenting
availableOn conditional for elfutils.
Fixes ghcHEAD cross-compilation when build = host = darwin,
target = linux.
Co-authored-by: sternenseemann <sternenseemann@systemli.org>
This is no substantial change, as we already assert that the
build->target and host->target LLVM are the same, but this brings the
terminology in the file in a more consistent order, since we use
build->target for CC/CXX and bintools already.
In fact we should be passing build->target to configure always,
host->target would come into play when updating GHC's settings file
after installing.
On aarch64-darwin we have additional wrappers for install_name_tool and
strip to deal with codesigning requirements (e. g. updating the
signature / checksum after changing a binary). These wrappers don't
exist on x86_64-darwin which is why the unwrapped versions were used
before, causing the kernel to kill (some) executables produced by GHC.
