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.
... where a bare submodule is an option that has a type like
`submoduleWith x`, as opposed to `attrsOf (submoduleWith x)`.
This makes migration unnecessary when introducing a freeform type
in an existing option tree.
Closes#146882
This ensures that the module file locations are propagated to the
freeform type, which makes it so that submodules in freeform types now
have their declaration location shown in the manual, fixing
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/132085.
In addition, this also newly allows freeformTypes to be declared
multiple times and all declarations being merged together according to
normal option merging.
This also removes some awkwardness regarding the type of `freeformType`
This type correctly merges multiple option types together while also
annotating them with file information. In a future commit this will be
used for `_module.freeformType`
`builtins.currentSystem` is not available in pure eval. For this
particular test, we don't really care since it's all about generating
.drv files.
Fixes the following error:
$ nix flake check
warning: unknown flake output 'lib'
error: attribute 'currentSystem' missing
at /nix/store/8wvnlbjxlr90kq2qa6d9zjpj8rqkilr5-source/lib/tests/misc.nix:499:73:
498| let
499| deriv = derivation { name = "test"; builder = "/bin/sh"; system = builtins.currentSystem; };
| ^
500| in {
(use '--show-trace' to show detailed location informat
Makes any programming errors more likely to show up early.
Non-obvious changes because of this:
- Ignore the `evalConfig` result in `reportFailure`; we're not checking
it at that point.
- Pre-increment `$fail` and `$pass` to make sure the arithmetic doesn't
result in a zero, which would result in a non-zero exit code for the
expression.
As suggested in #131205.
Now it's possible to pretty-print a value with `lib.generators` like
this:
with lib.generators;
toPretty { }
(withRecursion { depthLimit = 10; } /* arbitrarily complex value */)
Also, this can be used for any other pretty-printer now if needed.
When having e.g. recursive attr-set, it cannot be printed which is
solved by Nix itself like this:
$ nix-instantiate --eval -E 'let a.b = 1; a.c = a; in builtins.trace a 1'
trace: { b = 1; c = <CYCLE>; }
1
However, `generators.toPretty` tries to evaluate something until it's
done which can result in a spurious `stack-overflow`-error:
$ nix-instantiate --eval -E 'with import <nixpkgs/lib>; generators.toPretty { } (mkOption { type = types.str; })'
error: stack overflow (possible infinite recursion)
Those attr-sets are in fact rather common, one example is shown above, a
`types.<type>`-declaration is such an example. By adding an optional
`depthLimit`-argument, `toPretty` will stop evaluating as soon as the
limit is reached:
$ nix-instantiate --eval -E 'with import ./Projects/nixpkgs-update-int/lib; generators.toPretty { depthLimit = 2; } (mkOption { type = types.str; })' |xargs -0 echo -e
"{
_type = \"option\";
type = {
_type = \"option-type\";
check = <function>;
deprecationMessage = null;
description = \"string\";
emptyValue = { };
functor = {
binOp = <unevaluated>;
name = <unevaluated>;
payload = <unevaluated>;
type = <unevaluated>;
wrapped = <unevaluated>;
};
getSubModules = null;
getSubOptions = <function>;
merge = <function>;
name = \"str\";
nestedTypes = { };
substSubModules = <function>;
typeMerge = <function>;
};
}"
Optionally, it's also possible to let `toPretty` throw an error if the
limit is exceeded.
m68k was recently added for Linux and none, but NetBSD also supports
m68k. Nothing will build yet, but I want to make sure we at least
encode the existence of NetBSD support for every applicable
architecture we support for other operating systems.
In 2d45a62899, the submodule type
description was amended with the freeformType description. This causes
all the modules passed to the submodule to be evaluated once on their
own, without any extra definitions from the config section. This means
that the specified modules need to be valid on their own, without any
undeclared options.
This commit adds a test that evaluates a submodules option description,
which would trigger the above problem for one of the tests, if it were
not fixed by this commit as well.
This is done because the next commit makes option evaluation a bit more
strict, which would also trigger this test failure, even though it's not
related to the change at all.
These are all the architectures supported by Nixpkgs on other
platforms, that are also supported by NetBSD. (So I haven't added
any architectures that are new to Nixpkgs here, even though NetBSD
supports some that we don't have.)
I recently wrote some Nix code where I wrongly set a value to an option
which wasn't an actual option, but an attr-set of options. The mistake I
made can be demonstrated with an expression like this:
{
foo = { lib, pkgs, config, ... }: with lib; {
options.foo.bar.baz = mkOption {
type = types.str;
};
config.foo.bar = 23;
};
}
While it wasn't too hard to find the cause of the mistake for me, it was
necessary to have some practice in reading stack traces from the module
system since the eval-error I got was not very helpful:
error: --- TypeError --------------------------------------------------------- nix-build
at: (323:25) in file: /nix/store/3nm31brdz95pj8gch5gms6xwqh0xx55c-source/lib/modules.nix
322| foldl' (acc: module:
323| acc // (mapAttrs (n: v:
| ^
324| (acc.${n} or []) ++ f module v
value is an integer while a set was expected
(use '--show-trace' to show detailed location information)
I figured that such an error can be fairly confusing for someone who's
new to NixOS, so I decided to catch this case in th `byName` function in
`lib/modules.nix` by checking if the value to map through is an actual
attr-set. If not, a different error will be thrown.
PPC64 supports two ABIs: ELF v1 and v2.
ELFv1 is historically what GCC and most packages expect, but this is
changing because musl outright does not work with ELFv1. So any distro
which uses musl must use ELFv2. Many other platforms are moving to ELFv2
too, such as FreeBSD (as of v13) and Gentoo (as of late 2020).
Since we use musl extensively, let's default to ELFv2.
Nix gives us the power to specify this declaratively for the entire
system, so ELFv1 is not dropped entirely. It can be specified explicitly
in the target config, e.g. "powerpc64-unknown-linux-elfv1". Otherwise the
default is "powerpc64-unknown-linux-elfv2". For musl,
"powerpc64-unknown-linux-musl" must use elfv2 internally to function.
Previously the .enable option was used to encode the condition as well,
which lead to some oddness:
- In order to encode an assertion, one had to invert it
- To disable a check, one had to mkForce it
By introducing a separate .check option this is solved because:
- It can be used to encode assertions
- Disabling is done separately with .enable option, whose default can be
overridden without a mkForce
Previously this option was thought to be necessary to avoid infinite
recursion, but it actually isn't, since the check evaluation isn't fed
back into the module fixed-point.
- These symbols can be confusing for those not familiar with them
- There's no harm in making these more obvious
- Terminals may not print them correctly either
Also changes the function argument printing slightly to be more obvious
`toHex` converts the given positive integer to a string of the hexadecimal
representation of that integer. For example:
```
toHex 0 => "0"
toHex 16 => "10"
toHex 250 => "FA"
```
`toBase base i` converts the positive integer `i` to a list of it
digits in the given `base`. For example:
```
toBase 10 123 => [ 1 2 3 ]
toBase 2 6 => [ 1 1 0 ]
toBase 16 250 => [ 15 10 ]
```
