To avoid adding headers to the SDK it does not have normally
(`libutil.h`), darwin.libutil is not propagated. It must be included as
a build input when it is needed by packages.
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"
```
For a long time, we've had `crossLibcStdenv`, `*Cross` libc attributes,
and `*bsdCross` pre-libc package sets. This was always bad because
having "cross" things is "not declarative": the naming doesn't reflect
what packages *need* but rather how we *provide* something. This is
ugly, and creates needless friction between cross and native building.
Now, almost all of these `*Cross` attributes are gone: just these are
kept:
- Glibc's and Musl's are kept, because those packages are widely used
and I didn't want to risk changing the native builds of those at this
time.
- generic `libcCross`, `theadsCross`, and friends, because these relate
to the convolulted GCC bootstrap which still needs to be redone.
The BSD and obscure Linux or freestnanding libcs have conversely all
been made to use a new `stdenvNoLibc`, which is like the old
`crossLibcStdenv` except:
1. It usable for native and cross alike
2. It named according to what it *is* ("a standard environment without
libc but with a C compiler"), rather than some non-compositional
jargon ("the stdenv used for building libc when cross compiling",
yuck).
I should have done this change long ago, but I was stymied because of
"infinite recursions". The problem was that in too many cases we are
overriding `stdenv` to *remove* things we don't need, and this risks
cyles since those more minimal stdenvs are used to build things in the
more maximal stdenvs.
The solution is to pass `stage.nix` `stdenvNoCC`, so we can override to
*build up* rather than *tear down*. For now, the full `stdenv` is also
passed, so I don't need to change the native bootstraps, but I can see
this changing as we make things more uniform and clean those up.
(adapted from commit 51f1ecaa59)
(adapted from commit 1743662e55)
The old `postInstall` was ugly, and made for a needlessly course-grained
package. This makes more smaller derivations, and ones that additionally
can be built in parallel.
Now that we assemble the source code per each package in a separate prep
derivation since b6727bbeac, we don't need
rsync in the package proper derivations.
I realized what rhelmot did in 61202561d9
(specify what packages just need `stdenvNoLibc`) is definitely the right
approach for this, and adjusted NetBSD and OpenBSD to likewise use it.
With that change, we don't need these confusing and ugly `*bsdCross`
package sets at all!
We can get rid of a lot more libc-related `*Cross`, and I will do so
soon, but this is the first step.
(adapted from commit 51f1ecaa59)
For a long time, we've had `crossLibcStdenv`, `*Cross` libc attributes,
and `*bsdCross` pre-libc package sets. This was always bad because
having "cross" things is "not declarative": the naming doesn't reflect
what packages *need* but rather how we *provide* something. This is
ugly, and creates needless friction between cross and native building.
Now, almost all of these `*Cross` attributes are gone: just these are
kept:
- Glibc's and Musl's are kept, because those packages are widely used
and I didn't want to risk changing the native builds of those at this
time.
- generic `libcCross`, `theadsCross`, and friends, because these relate
to the convolulted GCC bootstrap which still needs to be redone.
The BSD and obscure Linux or freestnanding libcs have conversely all
been made to use a new `stdenvNoLibc`, which is like the old
`crossLibcStdenv` except:
1. It usable for native and cross alike
2. It named according to what it *is* ("a standard environment without
libc but with a C compiler"), rather than some non-compositional
jargon ("the stdenv used for building libc when cross compiling",
yuck).
I should have done this change long ago, but I was stymied because of
"infinite recursions". The problem was that in too many cases we are
overriding `stdenv` to *remove* things we don't need, and this risks
cyles since those more minimal stdenvs are used to build things in the
more maximal stdenvs.
The solution is to pass `stage.nix` `stdenvNoCC`, so we can override to
*build up* rather than *tear down*. For now, the full `stdenv` is also
passed, so I don't need to change the native bootstraps, but I can see
this changing as we make things more uniform and clean those up.
Finally, the BSDs also had to be cleaned up, since they have a few
pre-libc dependencies, demanding a systematic approach. I realized what
rhelmot did in 61202561d9 (specify what
packages just need `stdenvNoLibc`) is definitely the right approach for
this, and adjusted NetBSD and OpenBSD to likewise use it.
The big `fetchCVS` is slow, but a one-time cost. Everything else is much
faster, and not having to manage a gazillion `version` and `sha256`
fields is much easier.
This brings NetBSD in line with how we do FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
* Extend libc
Include non-libc core libraries in the libc package. Many of these
mirror libraries present in glibc on linux, such as libgcc, libraries
used for iconv, and libraries used for reading kernel info (libkvm,
libprocstat, libmemstat).
Without this many packages outside the freebsd tree would need to be
modified to include standard dependencies which would already be on
the system for other packages.
* Mark FreeBSD as using LLVM
* Update default LLVM version FreeBSD
* Use patch monolith
The patchesRoot system combined with the fact that each derivation
will Request specific names of patches makes it very annoying to use
other FreeBSD source trees with nixpkgs. This new system allows
providing one Or more entire trees of patches whose contents will be
dynamically Parsed and only the relevant patches will be applied for
any one Derivation.
With this commit, the following knobs are available for specifying the
FreeBSD source:
- overriding `freebsd.versionInfo`, for picking another official
supported FreeBSD release.
- overriding `freebsd.source` for specifying a specific unpatched
FreeBSD source tree.
- overriding `freebsd.patches`, for specifying the patches to apply.
Co-Authored-by: Audrey Dutcher <audrey@rhelmot.io>
Co-Authored-by: John Ericson <John.Ericson@Obsidian.Systems>
Without the change the eval fails as:
$ nix build --no-link -f. netbsd.libcurses
...
… while evaluating attribute 'NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE' of derivation 'libcurses-netbsd-9.2'
error: value is a string while a list was expected
with structuredAttrs lists will be bash arrays which cannot be exported
which will be a issue with some patches and some wrappers like cc-wrapper
this makes it clearer that NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE must be a string as lists
in env cause a eval failure