AFAIK this doesn't have a noticable effect for typical
Linux executables, but will avoid setting the timestamp
inside the file for Windows executables to the build
date.
Currently, separate-debug-info adds a debug output, and the build fail when it is
not created. the output is only created when at least one elf file is
stripped.
As a result, adding separateDebugInfo = true on a lib will break the
static build (unless the lib also contains an executable). In order to
not have to remember to add an exception every time, let's just create
the debug output unconditionally.
For reproducibility, nixpkgs sets `-frandom-seed` to the first 10
characters of the outpath of the derivation being built.
This PR allows to manually select from which outpath the
10-character prefix is taken, by setting
`NIX_OUTPATH_USED_AS_RANDOM_SEED` as a derivation attribute (or
directly as an environment variable).
For an example use of this functionality, see:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/209870
checkInputs used to be added to nativeBuildInputs. Now we have
nativeCheckInputs to do that instead. Doing this treewide change allows
to keep hashes identical to before the introduction of
nativeCheckInputs.
Closes#16182
This improves the error message
Error: _assignFirst found no valid variant!
which occurred when the set of outputs was not sufficient to set
the various outputDev, outputBin, etc variables. Specifically, this
would mean that "out" is not among the outputs, which is valid for
a derivation.
This changes the message to something like
error: _assignFirst: could not find a non-empty variable to assign to outputDev. The following variables were all unset or empty: dev out.
If you did not define an "out" output, make sure to define all the specific required outputs: define an output for one of the unset variables.
While this isn't a full explanation of what stdenv can and can not do,
I think it's vast improvement over the 0 bits of information that it
used to provide. This at least gives a clue as to what's going on, and
even suggests a fix, although probably multiple such fixes are required
in an instance where someone starts with a no-out derivation from scratch
(and decide to persist).
The auto-patchelf python script assembles a list of
library (so=shared object) file names and their paths.
This helps speed up the discovery of
library files later when patching elf files.
As further optimization, if a symlink points to a library file,
the script uses the resolved path and file name.
However, this produces a broken list entry if the
symlink's target name doesn't match the symlink's name.
A symptom of the bug, affecting the `tsm-client` package,
is fixed in https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/172372 .
The commit at hand stops resolving symlinks if
the target name differs from the symlink's name.
The commit has been authored by
layus (Guillaume Maudoux <layus.on@gmail.com>)
in pull request comment
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/172372#issuecomment-1194687183
to not unnecessarily print
```
hello> ++ type -f strip
hello> strip is /nix/store/xzqzq99kbbkad23s2bf4bbrjppg6x0vj-bootstrap-stage2-gcc-wrapper-/bin/strip
```
printing what the strip command is is already done in stripDirs
`echo "stripping (with command $cmd and flags $stripFlags) in $paths"`
the hook doesn't output the following if $prefix doesn't exist
find: '/nix/store/...': No such file or directory
some other hooks that do this: prune-libtool-files.sh, audit-tmpdir.sh separate-debug-info.sh
Co-authored-by: Robin Gloster <mail@glob.in>
stdenv: print message if structuredAttrs is enabled
stdenv: add _append
reduces the chance of a user doing it wrong
fix nix develop issue
output hooks don't work yet in nix develop though
making $outputs be the same on non-structuredAttrs and structuredAttrs
is too much trouble.
lets instead make a function that gets the output names
reading environment file '/nix/store/2x7m69a2sm2kh0r6v0q5s9z1dh41m4xf-xz-5.2.5-env-bin'
nix: src/nix/develop.cc:299: std::string Common::makeRcScript(nix::ref<nix::Store>, const BuildEnvironment&, const Path&): Assertion `outputs != buildEnvironment.vars.end()' failed.
use a function to get all output names instead of using $outputs
copy env functionality from https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/76732/commits
wlroots(and others) have
```
wlroots> +++ find /nix/store/3a0xwszw8n5dzzhsgfnilvsqi4hk565s-wlroots-0.15.1-examples -type l -print0
wlroots> find: '/nix/store/3a0xwszw8n5dzzhsgfnilvsqi4hk565s-wlroots-0.15.1-examples': No such file or directory
```
because the examples output is created in postFixup while this hook runs in fixupPhase
PostScript Printer Description (ppd) files
describe printer features and capabilities.
They are usually evaluated by CUPS to convert
print jobs into a format suitable for a printer.
The conversion is often accomplished by commands
or even short shell scripts inside the ppd files.
ppd files are included in many printer driver packages.
Their scripts sometimes refer to other executables;
some of them are more common (like `perl`),
others are more exotic (like `rastertohp`).
If an executable is called with its name alone,
the effects of the ppd file depend on whether
the executable is in the PATH of CUPS,
and on the executable's version.
If an executable is called with an absolut path
(like `/usr/bin/perl`), it won't work at all in NixOS.
The commit at hand adds a setup hook that uses
the `fixupPhase` to substitute certain executable's
invocations in pdd files with absolute paths.
To use it, add the hook to `nativeBuildInputs` and
provide a list of executable names in `ppdFileCommands`.
Each executable must be available in the
package that is being built, or in `buildInputs`.
The setup hook's script then looks for ppd files in
`share/cups/model` and `share/ppds` in each output,
and replaces executable names with their absolute paths.
If ppd files need to be patched in unorthodox locations or
the setup hook needs to be invoked manually for other reasons,
one may leave the list `ppdFileCommands` empty to
avoid automatic processing of ppd files, then call
the shell function `patchPpdFileCommands` directly.
Details are described in the file `patch-ppd-hook.sh`.
Notes on the motivation for this setup hook:
Most packages in nixpkgs that provide
ppd files do not patch those ppd files at all.
This is not fatal when the executables are just called
with their names since the user can add packages
with the executables to `services.printing.drivers`.
E.g. if the user adds `pkgs.perl`, then all ppd
files that invoke `perl` will work as expected.
Nevertheless, to make these ppd files independent of
their execution environment, command invocations should
be substituted with absolut paths into the nix store.
This is similar to patching shebang lines so scripts can be
called independently of having the interpreter in the PATH.
The hook script in this commit is meant to support new packages
`foomatic-db*` which will generate several thousands of
ppd files referencing a plethora of different executables.
During development of these packages, I realized that
it's quite hard to patch ppd files in a robust way.
While binary names like `rastertokpsl` seem to be sufficiently
unique to be patched with `sed`, names like `date` or `gs`
are hard to patch without producing "false positives",
i.e., coincidental occurences of the executable's name that do
*not* refer to the executable and should not be patched at all.
As this problem also affects other packages,
it seems reasonable to put a robust implementation
in its own setup hook so that other
packages can use it without much effort.
Notes on the implementation:
The ppd file format is far from trivial.
The basic structure are key-value pairs;
keys may occur multiple times.
Only a small subset of keys may contain
executable names or shell scripts in their values.
Some values may span multiple lines;
a linebreak might even occur in the middle of a token.
Some executable names also occur in other keys by accident
where they must not be substituted (e.g. `gs` or `date`).
It is necessary to provide the list of command
names that will be patched for two reasons:
ppd files often contain "tokens" that might look
like commands (e.g. "file" or "host") but aren't;
these would erroneously get patched.
Also, looking for everything that might be a command
would slow down the patching process considerably.
The implementation uses `awk` to detect
keys that might contain executable names;
only their values are treated for substitution.
This avoids most cases of "overzealous" substitutions.
Since values may span multiple lines,
`sed` alone (while faster than `awk`) cannot focus
its substitution capabilities on relevant keys.
An elaborate set of regular expressions further helps
to minimize the probability of "false positives".
Several tricks are employed to speed up `awk`.
Notably, relevant files are identified with
`grep` before `awk` is applied to those files only.
Note that the script probably cannot handle fancy command
names (like spaces or backslashes as part of the name).
Also, there are still edge cases that the script would
mistakenly skip, e.g. if a shell script contains a
line break in the middle of an executable's name;
although ppd files permit such constellations,
I have yet to see one.
ppd files may be gzipped.
The setup hook accepts gzipped ppd files:
It decompresses them, substitutes paths, then recompresses them.
However, Nix cannot detect substituted paths as
runtime dependencies in compressed ppd files.
To ensure substituted paths are propagated as
runtime dependencies, the script adds each substituted
path to the variable `propagatedBuildInputs`.
Since this might not be enough for multi-output packages,
those paths are also written directly to
`nix-support/propagated-build-inputs`.
See the comment in `patch-ppd-hook.sh` for details.
Finally, the setup hook comes with a small test that
probes some edge cases with an artificial ppd file.
References:
* https://www.cups.org/doc/spec-ppd.html
* general ppd file specification
* lists some keys that may contain
executable names or shell scripts
* https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/LSB_4.0.0/LSB-Printing/LSB-Printing/ppdext.html
* lists some keys that may contain
executable names or shell scripts
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript_Printer_Description#CUPS
* lists the usual locations of ppd files
