When implementing this reviewer request:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/161158#discussion_r822256070
to move mips64el-unknown-linux-* from platforms.nix to examples.nix, I
neglected to update the reference in make-bootstrap-tools-cross.nix.
As a result, the hydra jobs to generate a bootstrap tarball for
mips64el are not running:
https://hydra.nixos.org/eval/1750828?filter=mips&compare=1750620&full=#tabs-errors
This commit fixes the problem, so the hydra job can run. Once it
does, I will submit a PR adding the trusted bootstrap tarball hash to
pkgs/stdenv/linux/bootstrap-files/.
Co-authored-by: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org>
MIPS has a large space of {architecture,abi,endianness}; this commit
adds all of them to lib/systems/platforms.nix so we can be done with
it.
Currently lib/systems/inspect.nix has a single "isMips" predicate,
which is a bit ambiguous now that we will have both mips32 and mips64
support, with the latter having two ABIs. Let's add four new
predicates (isMips32, isMips64, isMips64n32, and isMips64n64) and
treat the now-ambiguous isMips as deprecated in favor of the
more-specific predicates. These predicates are used mainly for
enabling/disabling target-specific workarounds, and it is extremely
rare that a platform-specific workaround is needed, and both mips32
and mips64 need exactly the same workaround.
The separate predicates (isMips64n32 and isMips64n64) for ABI
distinctions are, unfortunately, useful. Boost's user-scheduled
threading (used by nix) does does not currently supports mips64n32,
which is a very desirable ABI on routers since they rarely have
more than 2**32 bytes of DRAM.
`--enable-deterministic-archives` is a GNU specific strip flag and
causes other strip implementations (for example LLVM's, see #138013)
to fail. Since strip failures are ignored, this means that stripping
doesn't work at all in certain situation (causing unnecessary
dependencies etc.).
To fix this, no longer pass `--enable-deterministic-archives`
unconditionally, but instead add it in a GNU binutils specific strip
wrapper only.
`commonStripFlags` was only used for this flag, so we can remove
it altogether.
Future work could be to make a generic strip wrapper, with support for
nix-support/strip-flags-{before,after} and NIX_STRIP_FLAGS_{BEFORE,AFTER}.
This possibly overkill and unnecessary though -- also with the
additional challenge of incorporating the darwin strip wrapper somehow.
Patch every `derivation` call in the bootsrap process to add it a
conditional `__contentAddressed` parameter.
That way, passing `contentAddressedByDefault` means that the entire
build closure of a system can be content addressed
Increase schedulingPriority of the bootstrap tools to unblock the
nixpkgs-unstable channel.
The channel is repeatedly blocked by the makeBootstrapTools job for
aarch64. The cause is lack of resources.
By increasing the priority, it should become the first job Hydra would
build, allowing the channel to advance quicker. Of course, it does mean
that while the channel advances, nothing else has been built.
This should be a temporary solution until we have more capacity for
aarch64.
The dynamic loader on powerpc64 is called ld64.so.2 rather than
ld-linux.so.*, and was not matched by the existing pattern.
We reuse the dynamicLinker name from binutils to match a wider set
of platforms and to avoid specifying this information in two places.
These files never existed, so best to not leave the reference. If
someone want to step up to maintain this, that would be fine. I don’t
have the hardware to test these out. In addition, someone tried to use
the bootstrap-tools currently built by Hydra and found that they were
broken in some unclear way.
The linker scripts no longer contain store paths, so this does nothing. More
importantly, libpthread.so is not longer a linker script on ARM, so the patching
would corrupt it.
There's a generated header that got comment about the source header
from glibc.dev, which added unwanted runtime dependency. Tested:
nix build -f pkgs/top-level/release.nix stdenvBootstrapTools.{aarch64,i686,x86_64}-linux.test
Apparently this option trades compression time for size,
and explicitly does so without increasing resources needed in decomp.
Doesn't make tarball creation unbearable, so add it to options!
