This is some thing introduced in 2017 to work around a problem that
no longer seems to exist. Nothing uses it except its own test, which
these days passes even with the standard `clangStdenv`.
In preparation for the deprecation of `stdenv.isX`.
These shorthands are not conducive to cross-compilation because they
hide the platforms.
Darwin might get cross-compilation for which the continued usage of `stdenv.isDarwin` will get in the way
One example of why this is bad and especially affects compiler packages
https://www.github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/343059
There are too many files to go through manually but a treewide should
get users thinking when they see a `hostPlatform.isX` in a place where it
doesn't make sense.
```
fd --type f "\.nix" | xargs sd --fixed-strings "stdenv.is" "stdenv.hostPlatform.is"
fd --type f "\.nix" | xargs sd --fixed-strings "stdenv'.is" "stdenv'.hostPlatform.is"
fd --type f "\.nix" | xargs sd --fixed-strings "clangStdenv.is" "clangStdenv.hostPlatform.is"
fd --type f "\.nix" | xargs sd --fixed-strings "gccStdenv.is" "gccStdenv.hostPlatform.is"
fd --type f "\.nix" | xargs sd --fixed-strings "stdenvNoCC.is" "stdenvNoCC.hostPlatform.is"
fd --type f "\.nix" | xargs sd --fixed-strings "inherit (stdenv) is" "inherit (stdenv.hostPlatform) is"
fd --type f "\.nix" | xargs sd --fixed-strings "buildStdenv.is" "buildStdenv.hostPlatform.is"
fd --type f "\.nix" | xargs sd --fixed-strings "effectiveStdenv.is" "effectiveStdenv.hostPlatform.is"
fd --type f "\.nix" | xargs sd --fixed-strings "originalStdenv.is" "originalStdenv.hostPlatform.is"
```
gcc-4.9.4 was released in Aug 3, 2016, 8 years ago. It's a branch that
went out of support years ago. Numerous bugs never get backported to
this version.
Let's remove it.
*compressDrv* compresses files in a given derivation.
*compressDrvWeb* compresses a derivation for a loosely-defined
pre-compressed "web server" usage.
This intends to replace the `passthru.data-compressed` derivations that
have accumulated in nixpkgs with something more reusable.
All other functions are in the form of `*{c,C}heckpointBuild*`, so we
deprecate the `mkCheckpointedBuild` function in favor of `mkCheckpointBuild`.
Also address some inconsistencies in the docs: some `buildOutput` should
actually be `incrementalBuildArtifacts`.
This commit adds a test for the newly added support for
__structuredAttrs in autoPatchelf(hook). It copied a reasonably
small-closure binary derivation that makes use of autoPatchelf, stripped
it down for the purpose of the test, and check that autoPatchelf
correctly set the interpreter and runpath whether __structuredAttrs is
set to true or not.
While using very old compilers is a fair usecase, it induces a maintenance churn as
we collect more and more LLVM versions for the LLVM maintainers.
Especially when we need to backport uniform changes to the whole tree,
furthermore, it consumes and waste CI resources.
This reverts commit d33a309f2c9f85c28cb897e623503f210057a77a.
commit caused ofborg-eval to fail with
```
$ nix-build pkgs/top-level/release.nix -A tests.cc-wrapper.gcc10Stdenv.aarch64-darwin
error: evaluation aborted with the following error message: 'cannot find attribute `tests.cc-wrapper.gcc10Stdenv''
```
on the 3 other platfomrs the attr is there
ignore `llvmPackages_latest`, it's an alias and it'll be a duplicate.
ignore `llvmPackages_git`, it's not supposed to be used in nixpkgs and
may be broken.
most tests use debian-devscripts' hardening-check, so only work on
ELF systems and can only detect a limited subset of flags.
some extra tests actually execute fortify-protected programs and
should be slightly more universally applicable.
