The cc and bintools wrapper contained ad hoc bootstrapping logic for
expand-response-params (which was callPackage-ed in a let binding). This
lead to the strange situation that the bootstrapping logic related to
expand-response-params is split between the wrapper derivations (where
it is duplicated) and the actual stdenv bootstrapping.
To clean this up, the wrappers simply should take expand-response-params
as an ordinary input: They need an adjacent expand-response-params (i.e.
one that runs on their host platform), but don't care about the how.
Providing this is only problematic during stdenv bootstrapping where we
have to pull it from the previous stage at times.
We don't need to artificially make sure that we can execute the wrapper
scripts on the build platform by using stdenv's shell (which comes from
buildPackages) since our cross infrastructure will get us the wrapper
from buildPackages. The upside of this change is that cross-compiled
wrappers (e.g. pkgsCross.aarch64-multiplatform.gcc) will actually work
when executed!
For bootstrapping this is also not a problem, since we have a long
build->build platform chain so runtimeShell is just as good as
stdenvNoCC.shell. We do fall back to old ways, though, by explicitly
using the bootstrap-tools shell in stage2, so the adjacent bash is only
used from stage4 onwards. This is unnecessary in principle (I'll try
removing this hack in the future), but ensures this change causes zero
rebuilds.
As of late, `final: prev: …` for overlays has become more prevalent in
newer code. This is also exhibited in some code (presumably added
recently) in stdenv. This change is not about any merits or demerits of
any naming convention, but rather aims to make the nomenclature in
stdenv bootstrapping consistent to lessen confusion.
I've chosen to stick to `self: super: …` convention because:
1. It is more common in the code as it stands.
2. Using `final: prev: …` makes the code more confusing, als it causes
`prev` to be in scope alongside `prevStage`. `prevStage` actually
bears no relation to `prev` even though their naming suggests it,
making it easy to confuse them (the former is the (final) package set
of the previous stage while the latter is just the `prev`/`super` of
the overlay “chaining” on a completely fresh package set, i.e. `prev`
doesn't even relate to the previous stage's `overrides` argument).
This change also corrects a naming error in stdenv/native which had no
effect, as the variables were unused.
Before the change `pkgsMusl.adobe-reader` was failing the interpreter:
$ nix-instantiate --eval --strict --expr 'with import ./. {}; builtins.tryEval pkgsMusl.adobe-reader'
error:
error: evaluation aborted with the following error message: 'unsupported platform for the pure Linux stdenv'
After the change `pkgsMusl.adobe-reader` returns catchable excation:
$ nix-instantiate --eval --strict --expr 'with import ./. {}; builtins.tryEval pkgsMusl.adobe-reader'
{ success = false; value = false; }
Noticed when was exploring `nixpkgs` for uncatchable evaluation errors.
Ideally those should only happen when there is a code bug in the use
site. In this case it's just a package with incompatible constraints for
`musl`.
Changed uncatchable `abort` to `throw`.
Unlike autoreconfHook, updateAutotoolsGnuConfigScriptsHook adds
almost no compilations. Therefore, in the interest of building the
same source code on every platform wherever possible, let's
eliminate the conditional guards around
updateAutotoolsGnuConfigScriptsHook in stdenv.
I broke `pkgsMusl` with #209870.
Something odd is happening with `xgcc` (the temporary compiler that
should be used only to compile `gcc`, although we are using it to
compile a temporary `patchelf` too) and `libstdc++`.
The temporary fix in this commit is to use `-static-libstdc++` for
the ephemeral `patchelf` built by `xgcc`. It isn't pretty, but it
appears to work.
Incorporates:
- https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/224945
The stage before `xgcc` creates the first compiled patchelf
(i.e. not from bootstrapFiles).
The `xgcc` stage was inadvertently switching *back* to using the
patchelf *from* the bootstrapFiles.
The first commit in this PR adds self-checking comments (assertions)
to make it clear where each stage's patchelf comes from.
The second commit fixes the bug, and updates the self-checking
comments.
Without the change when I attempt to built `nixpkgs` with weekly
`gcc-13` (it pulls in `flex` as a build input`) I am getting build
failure related to glibc mix caused by glibc loading:
...-binutils-patchelfed-ld-2.40/bin/ld: ...-xgcc-13.0.0/libexec/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/13.0.1/liblto_plugin.so:
error loading plugin: ...-bootstrap-tools/lib/libpthread.so.0: undefined symbol: __libc_vfork, version GLIBC_PRIVATE
The change disables LTO plugin entirely to avoid loading of `glibc` mix.
This commit adds `gcc/common/checksum.nix`, which contains code
common to both gcc11 and gcc12, implementing the `enableChecksum`
feature.
When gcc's built-in bootstrap (`--enable-bootstrap`) is used, gcc
compiles itself three times and compares a hash of the unlinked `.o`
files from the second and third compilation. The
`enableChecksum=true` parameter performs the same comparison as part
of the `postInstall` phase.
Notably, `enableChecksum=true` can be used with `enableBootstrap=false`.
Co-authored-by: Sandro <sandro.jaeckel@gmail.com>
Right now our bootstrapFiles-selecting algorithm uses the
`loongson2f.nix` bootstrapFiles (which were not built by Hydra).
These bootstrapFiles don't work anymore. They were added in 2010 by
40405d03ac.
This commit causes mipsel-linux native builds to use the Hydra-built
bootstrap files from this PR instead:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/183487
The NIX_LIB64|32_IN_SELF_RPATH environment variables control whether
to add lib64 and lib32 to rpaths. However, they're set depending
on the build paltform, not the target platform and thus their values
are incorrect for for cross-builds.
On the other hand, setting them according to the build platform introduce
pointless differences in build outputs; see #221350 for details.
This change fixes the issues by boldly removes the NIX_LIB*_IN_SELF_RPATH
facility altogether, in the hope that it is no longer necessary. They
were introduced in 2009, long before nixpkgs had good support for
cross-builds.
Fixes#221350
PR #208478 added a lot of documentation about which packages were
rebuilt in each stage of the stdenv bootstrap. However nothing
checks that these comments agree with reality; they can bitrot over
time. This PR rewrites those comments as assertions, so they cannot
bitrot.
This conversion did expose some ambiguity in our scheme for naming
the stages. Suppose that `pkgs.stdenv.name=="stdenv-stage4", then
which of these is "the stage4 coreutils"?
```
pkgs.coreutils
pkgs.stdenv.__bootPackages.coreutils
```
The choice is arbitrary, and both choices have confusing corner
cases. We should revisit this at some point.
The stdenv bootstrap creates several wrappers around binutils, and
gives them the exact same drvName as the binutils package itself.
These wrappers cost almost nothing to create (they are just file
copies and patchelf runs, not builds), so we should distinguish them
from expensive binutils builds with a unique pname. This commit
does that.
Right now we build gettext several times during the bootstrap.
Gettext's build process is "embarrassingly serial", so avoiding
rebuilding it speeds things up considerably.
Just a few comments added:
- added a few one-liners to explore which tools are rebuilt at each
stdenv iteration during bootstrap
- explicitly listed available toolchains and their sources for on each
bootstrap step: glibc, binutils, gcc, coreutils.
- added mention of static libraries linked into gcc
Co-authored-by: Adam Joseph <54836058+amjoseph-nixpkgs@users.noreply.github.com>
This PR provides the Hydra-generated bootstrap tarballs for mips64el-linux-gnuabin32.
With this PR we now have the bootstrap-file for all three little-endian ABIs on mips: n64, n32, and o32. I do not currently plan to do big-endian mips unless some motivation arises; all mips chips are bi-endian and Debian has dropped big-endian support due to lack of interest.
I'll be following the script used in #151399, #168199, and #183487.
Files came from [this](https://hydra.nixos.org/build/188389586#tabs-summary) Hydra build, which used nixpkgs revision 97d9c84e1d to instantiate:
```
/nix/store/hakn8s85s9011v61r6svp5qy8x1y64fv-stdenv-bootstrap-tools-mips64el-unknown-linux-gnuabin32.drv
```
and then built:
```
/nix/store/rjgybpnf3yiqyhvl2n2lx31jf800fii2-stdenv-bootstrap-tools-mips64el-unknown-linux-gnuabin32
```
I downloaded these files from Hydra and prefetched them into the nix store with the following commands:
```
STOREPATH=rjgybpnf3yiqyhvl2n2lx31jf800fii2-stdenv-bootstrap-tools-mips64el-unknown-linux-gnuabin32
OPTIONS="--option binary-caches https://cache.nixos.org --option trusted-public-keys cache.nixos.org-1:6NCHdD59X431o0gWypbMrAURkbJ16ZPMQFGspcDShjY="
nix store prefetch-file \
file://$(nix store add-file --name bootstrap-tools.tar.xz $(nix-store ${OPTIONS} -r /nix/store/${STOREPATH})/on-server/bootstrap-tools.tar.xz)
nix store prefetch-file --executable \
file://$(nix store add-path --name busybox $(nix-store ${OPTIONS} -r /nix/store/${STOREPATH})/on-server/busybox)
```
These commands produced the following output:
```
Downloaded 'file:///nix/store/w6zzd2fx2vhmjfcf5h5zc01m0swldpbw-bootstrap-tools.tar.xz' to '/nix/store/6w0f0mqblrghvh6yjwcb4xdqq9x50lbl-w6zzd2fx2vhmjfcf5h5zc01m0swldpbw-bootstrap-tools.tar.xz' (hash 'sha256-LWrpN6su2yNVurUyhZP34OiZyzgh7MfN13fIIbou8KI=').
Downloaded 'file:///nix/store/nqagw1kgdz1zlmqi00qfjrmwqk3g3bgd-busybox' to '/nix/store/i361xhbdhhnvg7zd637xpm63vbl80s0s-nqagw1kgdz1zlmqi00qfjrmwqk3g3bgd-busybox' (hash 'sha256-4N3G1qYA7vitjhsIW17pR6UixIuzrq4vZXa8F0/X4iI=').
```
I used the hashes from the output above to create the `fetchurl` invocation which is part of this commit.
I then started the bootstrap with the following command:
```
nix build -L -f . --arg localSystem '(import ./lib).systems.examples.mips64el-linux-gnuabin32' hello
```
As @lovesegfault requested, here are the the `sha256sum`s of all the `on-server` components for extra verification:
```
sha256sum /nix/store/${STOREPATH}/on-server/*
```
which produced the following output:
```
2d6ae937ab2edb2355bab5328593f7e0e899cb3821ecc7cdd777c821ba2ef0a2 /nix/store/rjgybpnf3yiqyhvl2n2lx31jf800fii2-stdenv-bootstrap-tools-mips64el-unknown-linux-gnuabin32/on-server/bootstrap-tools.tar.xz
01633f71135cb9ab1b5ce3ebb67e80cbf288739729bffc1350c1552f6f8df34b /nix/store/rjgybpnf3yiqyhvl2n2lx31jf800fii2-stdenv-bootstrap-tools-mips64el-unknown-linux-gnuabin32/on-server/busybox
```
