the motivation for this is to simplify stdenv and ease the job of
reviewers due to them needing to tell contributors about the defacto
rule that mesonFlags should be a list of strings
This PR adds Hydra-generated bootstrap tarballs for mips64el-linux. I'll be following the script established in https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/151399, which I previously used in https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/168199.
Files came from [this](https://hydra.nixos.org/build/182757245) Hydra build, which used nixpkgs revision ef3fe254f3 to instantiate:
```
/nix/store/a2bvv663wjnyhq8m7v84aspsd3sgf9h6-stdenv-bootstrap-tools-mips64el-unknown-linux-gnuabi64.drv
```
and then built:
```
/nix/store/aw3dmsrh22831l83vi3q9apg9qi3x8ms-stdenv-bootstrap-tools-mips64el-unknown-linux-gnuabi64
```
I downloaded these files from Hydra with the following commands:
```
STOREPATH=aw3dmsrh22831l83vi3q9apg9qi3x8ms-stdenv-bootstrap-tools-mips64el-unknown-linux-gnuabi64
OPTIONS="--option binary-caches https://cache.nixos.org"
nix store add-file \
--name bootstrap-tools.tar.xz \
$(nix-store ${OPTIONS} -r /nix/store/${STOREPATH})/on-server/bootstrap-tools.tar.xz
nix store add-path \
--name busybox \
$(nix-store ${OPTIONS} -r /nix/store/${STOREPATH})/on-server/busybox
```
I then prefetched them into `/nix/store` with:
```
$ nix store prefetch-file --executable file:///nix/store/aw3dmsrh22831l83vi3q9apg9qi3x8ms-stdenv-bootstrap-tools-mips64el-unknown-linux-gnuabi64/on-server/busybox
Downloaded 'file:///nix/store/aw3dmsrh22831l83vi3q9apg9qi3x8ms-stdenv-bootstrap-tools-mips64el-unknown-linux-gnuabi64/on-server/busybox' to '/nix/store/ai30ss23914syz6j8m95arkwffbbx44k-busybox' (hash 'sha256-sTE58ofjqAqX3Xtq1g9wDxzIe6Vo//GHbicfqJoivDI=').
$ nix store prefetch-file file:///nix/store/aw3dmsrh22831l83vi3q9apg9qi3x8ms-stdenv-bootstrap-tools-mips64el-unknown-linux-gnuabi64/on-server/bootstrap-tools.tar.xz
Downloaded 'file:///nix/store/aw3dmsrh22831l83vi3q9apg9qi3x8ms-stdenv-bootstrap-tools-mips64el-unknown-linux-gnuabi64/on-server/bootstrap-tools.tar.xz' to '/nix/store/nr6zjrbwbxcxs6brf042zsyqllwbwj9v-bootstrap-tools.tar.xz' (hash 'sha256-tTgjeXpd2YgnfP4JvRuO0bXd2j8GqzBcd57JI3wH9x0=').
```
And started the bootstrap with the following command (the `--arg localSystem` is needed because #161159 has not merged):
```
nix build -f . -L hello --arg localSystem '(import ./lib).systems.examples.mips64el-linux-gnuabi64'
```
As @lovesegfault requested in #151399, here are the the `sha256sum`s of all the `on-server` components for extra verification:
```
$ sha256sum /nix/store/aw3dmsrh22831l83vi3q9apg9qi3x8ms-stdenv-bootstrap-tools-mips64el-unknown-linux-gnuabi64/on-server/*
b53823797a5dd988277cfe09bd1b8ed1b5ddda3f06ab305c779ec9237c07f71d /nix/store/aw3dmsrh22831l83vi3q9apg9qi3x8ms-stdenv-bootstrap-tools-mips64el-unknown-linux-gnuabi64/on-server/bootstrap-tools.tar.xz
598e05abb69b2c1a0db46585cd2131212077c0937ce2a665daf3811f059ae767 /nix/store/aw3dmsrh22831l83vi3q9apg9qi3x8ms-stdenv-bootstrap-tools-mips64el-unknown-linux-gnuabi64/on-server/busybox
```
the motivation for this is to simplify stdenv and ease the job of
reviewers due to them needing to tell contributors about the defacto
rule that cmakeFlags should be a list of strings
Closes#178625
The `busybox` version of `mktemp` requires exactly six `X` characters
in the argument to `mktemp`, unlike the `coreutils` version of `mktemp`.
Let's accomodate packages, like `epson-escpr2`, which fool `setup.sh`
into using the `busybox` version instead of the `stdenv` version.
In 5643714dea, I changed pkgs/stdenv/linux/make-bootstrap-tools.nix
to take a package set instead of system and localSystem arguments, but
I forgot to update make-bootstrap-tools-cross.nix.
Fixes: 5643714dea ("stdenvBootstrapTools: inherit {cross,local}System")
During stdenv bootstrapping, coreutils is built twice. This makes
troubleshooting very difficult, because both packages have
name="coreutils", so it is a hassle to figure out "which coreutils am
I using / is not building"?
The first of these builds is used only in stage4, and is not part of
the final stdenv. Let's label that one with a different `name`
attribute to make it obvious which is which.
The usage of `makeStaticLibraries` in stdenv/linux/default.nix is
prefaced by this comment:
# Link GCC statically against GMP etc. This makes sense because
# these builds of the libraries are only used by GCC, so it
# reduces the size of the stdenv closure.
However "these builds of the libraries are only used by GCC" is not
actually true. As currently written, the stage4 coreutils links
against these customized, static-ified libraries.
Beside the fact that the code doesn't actually do what it says, this
causes other problems as well. One example is #168983, which arises
because have a dynamically-linked binary (coreutils) which is built
from statically-linked libraries (libgmp.a); doing this causes mayhem
on platforms where `-fstack-protector` needs an auxiliary
`libssp.{so,a}` library; we end up with link failures because some
parts of the resulting binary want `libssp.so` and other parts want
`libssp_nonshared.a`.
Let's make the code actually do what the comment says, by moving these
definitions into the `gcc-unwrapped` override. This will cause the
stage4-coreutils to link against libgmp dynamically, rather than
statically. For this reason this commit depends on the previous
commit, which allows that to be done without creating a forbidden
reference from stdenv-final to the bootstrap-files.
As explained in the comment, this ensures that stage4-coreutils does
not leak a reference to the bootstrap-files by way of libgmp. This
will allow the next patch in this series to build stage4-coreutils
using a dynamically-linked (rather than statically-linked) libgmp.
It's expected that attributes in the top-level package set will all use
that package set, but this wasn't the case for the bootstrap tools.
This led some very confusing behaviour:
- pkgsMusl.stdenvBootstrapTools would build glibc bootstrap tools
- stdenvBootstrapTools was _always_ cross compiled, even if
Nixpkgs wasn't, because it always set crossSystem. This also didn't
match the behaviour of using make-bootstrap-tools.nix as an
entrypoint, where crossSystem would default to null.
For the Linux stdenv, I've made the ideal fix, which is to make pkgs an
argument rather than taking the arguments for pkgs, and then
re-importing it. This means it'll always use exactly the same package
set that's calling it, and should also mean faster eval due to not
importing Nixpkgs twice.
The Darwin stdenv is more complicated, and I'm not able to easily test
it, so I wasn't confident in making the same fix there. Instead, I've
just made sure crossSystem and localSystem are set to the correct values
so they're not always cross compiled and match the parent package set's.
It would still be preferable if somebody could make Darwin's
make-bootstrap-tools.nix take pkgs as an argument, rather than all the
arguments for pkgs.
it may be what the license handling code does, but it's confusing and not very useful
Co-authored-by: Adam Joseph <54836058+a-m-joseph@users.noreply.github.com>
These servers apparently no longer exist, since September 2, 2021[1].
If somebody needs this for non-Scaleway machines, they should suggest
its reintroduction with a different name.
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27192757
