We should constrain the set of supported platforms to the platforms
supported by the compiler. Otherwise we run into the unfortunate
situation where setting meta.platforms in a Rust package to
platforms.unix or platforms.linux will reintroduce CPU architectures
unsupported by the compiler.
We need this stuff to be available in lib so make-derivation.nix can
access it to construct the Meson cross file.
This has a couple of other advantages:
- It makes Rust less special. Now figuring out what Rust calls a
platform is the same as figuring out what Linux or QEMU call it.
- We can unify the schema used to define Rust targets, and the schema
used to access those values later. Just like you can set "config"
or "system" in a platform definition, and then access those same
keys on the elaborated platform, you can now set "rustcTarget" in
your crossSystem, and then access "stdenv.hostPlatform.rustcTarget"
in your code.
"rustcTarget", "rustcTargetSpec", "cargoShortTarget", and
"cargoEnvVarTarget" have the "rustc" and "cargo" prefixes because
these are not exposed to code by the compiler, and are not
standardized. The arch/os/etc. variables are all named to match the
forms in the Rust target spec JSON.
The new rust.target-family only takes a list, since we don't need to
worry about backwards compatibility when that name is used.
The old APIs are all still functional with no warning for now, so that
it's possible for external code to use a single API on both 23.05 and
23.11. We can introduce the warnings once 23.05 is EOL, and make them
hard errors when 23.11 is EOL.
Rust is not yet able to target the n32 ABI on mips64.
Let's add `isMips64n32` to the `meta.badPlatforms` of all
derivations created by buildRustPackage.
I use this to automatically detect which packages on my system can
be built for n32 (almost all of them) and build those using n32, and
the few packages (mainly those that depend on boost or rust) that
can't for n64.
This upgrade unfortunately removes MIPS support, as it has been
dropped to Tier 3[1] and so bootstrap tarballs are no longer provided.
It looks like it was dropped due to multiple codegen bugs, and lack of
maintenance, so bringing it back would probably involve engaging with
Rust/LLVM upstream on those.
[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/issues/648
> If using a target spec JSON file, the <triple> value is the filename
> stem. For example --target foo/bar.json would match [target.bar].
- https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/config.html#target
I've also exposed toRustTargetSpecShort as a public function, because
it's useful to be able to know what the target subdirectory will be.
armv6l-linux was incorrectly added to the list of platforms without host
tools in #227987. arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf is present in the list of
Tier 2 targets with host tools, and this target corresponds to our
armv6l-linux platform.
rustc supports way more platforms than Linux and Darwin. We might not
be able to build it for every platform at the moment, but that's what
meta.broken is for.
There are other platforms that rustc can produce binaries for, but
can't run on itself, so those are listed in the defaults for
buildRustPackage.
Sometimes it's more ergonomic to set up the build environment in
hooks, to add to the default behaviour rather than replacing it. It's
very surprising that the fetcher works fine with a custom unpackPhase,
but not with custom preUnpack or postUnpack.
Packages that use preUnpack or postUnpack and Cargo FODs seem to be
very rare. I searched Nixpkgs for files containing one of
"cargoHash", "cargoDeps", and "cargoSha256", and one of "preUnpack" or
"postUnpack", and only found two such packages:
python3.pkgs.tokenizers and rustdesk. Neither of their Cargo FOD
hashes are affected by this change. So if that's any indication,
we're unlikely to be breaking many out-of-tree hashes with these
changes either.
`cargoDeps` is already passed as `mkDerivation` arguments, and should
not be `passthru`ed again. This fixes the mismatch of `drv.cargoDeps`
and the actual dependency when the original derivation is overriden.
This reverts commit b6fc00b8f4.
Rust 1.66.0 contains a fix for libiconv being linked unconditionally on macOS, but this only applies to packages that don't depend on older versions of `libc`.
For now, let's go back to including libiconv in `buildInputs` by default for packages that use `buildRustPackage`. As packages bump their `libc` versions, we can eventually stop including it by default, and manually add it where needed.
Rust binaries are unconditionally linked to libiconv on Darwin (see https://github.com/rust-lang/libc/issues/2870). We already add it as a dependency in `buildRustPackage`, so let's go a step further and propagate it.
The old logic flow had the structure
if ( … ) {
if ( … ) {
…
} else {
…
}
} else {
…
}
which is quite hard to follow in Nix. Instead we ensure that no if
expression is inside a then branch.
This change is zero rebuild, as no logic was changed.
- `toRustTarget` and friends pulled out from rust tools into rust
library. Since they don't depend on any packages they can be more
widely useable.
- `build-rust-package` gets its own directory
- `fetch-cargo-tarball` gets its own directory
