The BOOTSTRAP_ARGS patch is no longer necessary since
863d2fddd79 ("Pass `-jN` from Make to `BOOTSTRAP_ARGS`").
We now have to set sysconfdir, because since
350ead87205 ("add sanity checks for user write access on `x install`"),
the build system will check it can write there, even though nothing
actually gets installed there. (Previously it defaulted to /etc.)
This commit adds the machinery required to get our `rustc.nix` to
work using upstream's git repository, directly, without them waving
dead chickens over it and performing whatever other occult rituals
are involved in creating a release tarball.
No chickens, live or dead, were harmed in the creation of this
commit.
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.
...to be displayed on search.nixos.org &c; this is the same notice as
included by conda-forge per agreement with nvidia; cf. comments in
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/76233
