After https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/209054 we started moving
libstdc++.so out of default glibc's paths. This exposed bootstrap
tools build failure as:
$ nix build --no-link -f ./pkgs/stdenv/linux/make-bootstrap-tools.nix
...
>
.../bin/bar: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.6:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Note that bootstrap itself did not break. The change only expands
handcrafted `-rpath` entries.
The stdenv bootstrap creates several wrappers around binutils, and
gives them the exact same drvName as the binutils package itself.
These wrappers cost almost nothing to create (they are just file
copies and patchelf runs, not builds), so we should distinguish them
from expensive binutils builds with a unique pname. This commit
does that.
`hasUnsupportedPlatform` was not updated with #37395, so it does not
understand attrsets in `meta.[bad]platforms`. In particular,
attrsets in `meta.badPlatforms` will "fail open" and be ignored.
Let's use `lib.meta.availableOn` instead of duplicating its logic.
Thanks to @alyssais for [noticing][1].
[1][https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/194148#discussion_r990817610]
Co-authored-by: sternenseemann <sternenseemann@systemli.org>
Right now we build gettext several times during the bootstrap.
Gettext's build process is "embarrassingly serial", so avoiding
rebuilding it speeds things up considerably.
otherwise the build just fails with 'make: *** No rule to make target 'install'. Stop.'
and update buildPhase message
i don't know if the 'makefile may have been created in buildPhase' is
true but i guess it might be possible
This change allows building new gcc during bootstrap without fear of
pulling in outdated libstdc++.so after g++ switched from bootstrapTools
to freshly built g++.
Noticed when tried to add early bootstrap stage to rebuild `gcc` before
`glibc` is fully untangled from `bootstrapTools` as a failure to built
`binutils`:
ld: dwp.o: in function `__gnu_cxx::new_allocator<gold::Dwp_output_file::Contribution>::allocate(unsigned long, void const*)':
/nix/store/...-gcc-11.3.0/include/c++/11.3.0/ext/new_allocator.h:116: undefined reference to `std::__throw_bad_array_new_length()'
The change survives existing bootstrap and unblockes early `gcc` bootstrap.
Just a few comments added:
- added a few one-liners to explore which tools are rebuilt at each
stdenv iteration during bootstrap
- explicitly listed available toolchains and their sources for on each
bootstrap step: glibc, binutils, gcc, coreutils.
- added mention of static libraries linked into gcc
Co-authored-by: Adam Joseph <54836058+amjoseph-nixpkgs@users.noreply.github.com>
The documentation for `meta.sourceProvenance` in
`doc/stdenv/meta.chapter.md` says: "the `meta.sourceProvenance`
attribute should be a list containing one or more value..."
Let's update check-meta.nix to require that `meta.sourceProvenance` is
a list, as the documentation says, rather than a single element.
Adding two extra keystrokes `[` and `]` when filling out this field is
an insignificant burden for package authors, and being able to assume
that the `meta.sourceProvenance` field is always a list greatly
simplifies any code that acts on the value of this field.
Since `meta.sourceProvenance` was just merged a few hours ago now is
the easiest time to fix this: nobody is using the feature yet.
Without the change we don't propagate `enableParallelBuilding = true`
and leave most builds sequential.
Noticed on `mythtv` package which did not specify parallelism and
`config.enableParallelBuildingByDefault = true` had no effect.
Derivations not using `__structuredAttrs` should not attempt to set
environment variables from `env`.
Derivations using `__structuredAttrs` should fail if `env` is not
exportable.
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 $outputs
copy env functionality from https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/76732/commits
In specific cases, combining the `checkMeta` and `checkMetaRecursively`
config options would result in `error: infinite recursion encountered`
fixes#193296
This is needed in order to mark a certain derivation containing a Nix
expression tarball to Hydra so that it is recognised as a channel.
When I first got an evaluation error due to using this meta attribute, I
was under the impression that nobody outside of Vuizvui[1] is using this
feature and that we don't have any occurrence of isHydraChannel in
Nixpkgs.
However, when working around[2] the issue I assumed that it's not
something that should be included in Nixpkgs because we're not using it
there.
It turned out that my assumption was wrong and we *do* use the attribute
in Nixpkgs, namely via releaseTools.channel, which is similar to what
we're doing in Vuizvui.
Since we already include a bunch of undocumented attributes in
metaTypes, it only makes sense to add isHydraChannel as well since it's
actually documented in the Hydra documentation[3].
[1]: https://github.com/openlab-aux/vuizvui
[2]: https://github.com/openlab-aux/vuizvui/commit/e0685e81b3fdc43a272f0
[3]: 53335323ae/doc/manual/src/jobs.md (meta-fields)
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@nix.build>
Passing `-l$NIX_BUILD_CORES` improperly limits the overall system load.
For a build machine which is configured to run `$B` builds where each
build gets `total cores / B` cores (`$C`), passing `-l $C` to make will
improperly limit the load to `$C` instead of `$B * $C`.
This effect becomes quite pronounced on machines with 80 cores, with
40 simultaneous builds and a cores limit of 2. On a machine with this
configuration, Nix will run 40 builds and make will limit the overall
system load to approximately 2. A build machine with this many cores
can happily run with a load approaching 80.
A non-solution is to oversubscribe the machine, by picking a larger
`$C`. However, there is no way to divide the number of cores in a way
which fairly subdivides the available cores when `$B` is greater than
1.
There has been exploration of passing a jobserver in to the sandbox,
or sharing a jobserver between all the builds. This is one option, but
relatively complicated and only supports make. Lots of other software
uses its own implementation of `-j` and doesn't support either `-l` or
the Make jobserver.
For the case of an interactive user machine, the user should limit
overall system load using `$B`, `$C`, and optionally systemd's
cpu/network/io limiting features.
Making this change should significantly improve the utilization of our
build farm, and improve the throughput of Hydra.
Stdenv on aarch64-darwin pulls in (bootstrap-stage4) objc4, unlike
x86_64. However derivations that otherwise depend on objc4 would use a
a different objc4 derivation on top of the final stdenv.
Because this library defines an LLVM module, having multiple instances
of it in the import path will interfere with builds.
This PR provides the Hydra-generated bootstrap tarballs for mips64el-linux-gnuabin32.
With this PR we now have the bootstrap-file for all three little-endian ABIs on mips: n64, n32, and o32. I do not currently plan to do big-endian mips unless some motivation arises; all mips chips are bi-endian and Debian has dropped big-endian support due to lack of interest.
I'll be following the script used in #151399, #168199, and #183487.
Files came from [this](https://hydra.nixos.org/build/188389586#tabs-summary) Hydra build, which used nixpkgs revision 97d9c84e1d to instantiate:
```
/nix/store/hakn8s85s9011v61r6svp5qy8x1y64fv-stdenv-bootstrap-tools-mips64el-unknown-linux-gnuabin32.drv
```
and then built:
```
/nix/store/rjgybpnf3yiqyhvl2n2lx31jf800fii2-stdenv-bootstrap-tools-mips64el-unknown-linux-gnuabin32
```
I downloaded these files from Hydra and prefetched them into the nix store with the following commands:
```
STOREPATH=rjgybpnf3yiqyhvl2n2lx31jf800fii2-stdenv-bootstrap-tools-mips64el-unknown-linux-gnuabin32
OPTIONS="--option binary-caches https://cache.nixos.org --option trusted-public-keys cache.nixos.org-1:6NCHdD59X431o0gWypbMrAURkbJ16ZPMQFGspcDShjY="
nix store prefetch-file \
file://$(nix store add-file --name bootstrap-tools.tar.xz $(nix-store ${OPTIONS} -r /nix/store/${STOREPATH})/on-server/bootstrap-tools.tar.xz)
nix store prefetch-file --executable \
file://$(nix store add-path --name busybox $(nix-store ${OPTIONS} -r /nix/store/${STOREPATH})/on-server/busybox)
```
These commands produced the following output:
```
Downloaded 'file:///nix/store/w6zzd2fx2vhmjfcf5h5zc01m0swldpbw-bootstrap-tools.tar.xz' to '/nix/store/6w0f0mqblrghvh6yjwcb4xdqq9x50lbl-w6zzd2fx2vhmjfcf5h5zc01m0swldpbw-bootstrap-tools.tar.xz' (hash 'sha256-LWrpN6su2yNVurUyhZP34OiZyzgh7MfN13fIIbou8KI=').
Downloaded 'file:///nix/store/nqagw1kgdz1zlmqi00qfjrmwqk3g3bgd-busybox' to '/nix/store/i361xhbdhhnvg7zd637xpm63vbl80s0s-nqagw1kgdz1zlmqi00qfjrmwqk3g3bgd-busybox' (hash 'sha256-4N3G1qYA7vitjhsIW17pR6UixIuzrq4vZXa8F0/X4iI=').
```
I used the hashes from the output above to create the `fetchurl` invocation which is part of this commit.
I then started the bootstrap with the following command:
```
nix build -L -f . --arg localSystem '(import ./lib).systems.examples.mips64el-linux-gnuabin32' hello
```
As @lovesegfault requested, here are the the `sha256sum`s of all the `on-server` components for extra verification:
```
sha256sum /nix/store/${STOREPATH}/on-server/*
```
which produced the following output:
```
2d6ae937ab2edb2355bab5328593f7e0e899cb3821ecc7cdd777c821ba2ef0a2 /nix/store/rjgybpnf3yiqyhvl2n2lx31jf800fii2-stdenv-bootstrap-tools-mips64el-unknown-linux-gnuabin32/on-server/bootstrap-tools.tar.xz
01633f71135cb9ab1b5ce3ebb67e80cbf288739729bffc1350c1552f6f8df34b /nix/store/rjgybpnf3yiqyhvl2n2lx31jf800fii2-stdenv-bootstrap-tools-mips64el-unknown-linux-gnuabin32/on-server/busybox
```
inherit_errexit wasn’t available in bash 3. We have a check to show a
nice error message, but that check is after we set inherit_errexit in
setup.sh. So we can just move this to below the BASH_VERSINFO check.
gcc stopped using libelf in commit 48215350c24 ("re PR lto/46273 (Failed
to bootstrap)") around 2010, before gcc-4.6.0.
Bootstrap tools don't use it either.
This PR updates the Hydra-generated bootstrap tarballs for
powerpc64le-linux. The bootstrap-files referenced prior to this
commit will only bootstrap in a nixpkgs which has
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/181802. That PR was closed in
favor of https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/181943, which is a
cleaner solution but which requires regenerating the bootstrap-files.
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/186237511) Hydra build, which used nixpkgs revision ac43c44478 to instantiate:
```
/nix/store/nhjbza9vlcyhp9zxfz6lwpc3m2ghrpzj-stdenv-bootstrap-tools-powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu.drv
```
and then built:
```
/nix/store/fklpm7fy6cp5wz55w0gd8wakyqvzapjx-stdenv-bootstrap-tools-powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu
```
I downloaded these files from Hydra with the following commands:
```
STOREPATH=fklpm7fy6cp5wz55w0gd8wakyqvzapjx-stdenv-bootstrap-tools-powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu
OPTIONS="--option binary-caches https://cache.nixos.org --option trusted-public-keys cache.nixos.org-1:6NCHdD59X431o0gWypbMrAURkbJ16ZPMQFGspcDShjY="
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/p9lz8r81zp3a4sl2qq2v4j69syjzryn2-busybox
Downloaded 'file:///nix/store/p9lz8r81zp3a4sl2qq2v4j69syjzryn2-busybox' to '/nix/store/a42qf2kf5hychcsw5sz0pvghy9vli1im-p9lz8r81zp3a4sl2qq2v4j69syjzryn2-busybox' (hash 'sha256-jtPEAsht4AUAG4MLK8xocQSfveUR4ppU1lS4bGI1VN4=').
$ nix store prefetch-file file:///nix/store/y4530zpk7ia4szf5cdi4zpyy5lpjv3iv-bootstrap-tools.tar.xz
Downloaded 'file:///nix/store/y4530zpk7ia4szf5cdi4zpyy5lpjv3iv-bootstrap-tools.tar.xz' to '/nix/store/kgzyq9q08nll28ccqjcbv8angq5hyvdp-y4530zpk7ia4szf5cdi4zpyy5lpjv3iv-bootstrap-tools.tar.xz' (hash 'sha256-MpIDnpZUK3M17qlnuoxfnK0EgxRosm3TMW1WfPZ1+jU=').
```
And started the bootstrap with the following command:
```
nix build -f . -L hello
```
As @lovesegfault requested in #151399, here are the the `sha256sum`s of all the `on-server` components for extra verification:
```
$ sha256sum /nix/store/fklpm7fy6cp5wz55w0gd8wakyqvzapjx-stdenv-bootstrap-tools-powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu/on-server/*
3292039e96542b7335eea967ba8c5f9cad04831468b26dd3316d567cf675fa35 /nix/store/fklpm7fy6cp5wz55w0gd8wakyqvzapjx-stdenv-bootstrap-tools-powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu/on-server/bootstrap-tools.tar.xz
3d078dff7b4087d82442937667c91dace3321493aae4d3a4160d046b7eabcc2c /nix/store/fklpm7fy6cp5wz55w0gd8wakyqvzapjx-stdenv-bootstrap-tools-powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu/on-server/busybox
```
This is a change for `powerpc-linux` but that is ancient and I don't
think it matters. The impure bootstrap that was previously assigned to
it has probably bitrotted anyways.
Before the change an attempt to use `gnumake.override { guileSupport = true; }`
caused recursion in bootstrap stages as guileSupport pulls in guile and it's
dependencies.
To restore the bootstrap the change unconditionally sets
`guileSupport = false;` for `gnumake`.
Co-authored-by: Sandro <sandro.jaeckel@gmail.com>
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")
Since 97c43828fb the `file` package has
been part of stdenv, and no longer needs to be listed explicitly as a
build input. Let's remove the platform-specific inclusion for mingw64
as suggested by @mehmooda:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/168413#issuecomment-1147370500
I traced the line removed by this commit through the `git blame`; it
was initially added in this commit (and then shuffled around a few
dozen times by refactorings):
8b292a1b35
The commit message indicates that `libpng-1.6.20` was current at the
time. Although there are [libpng
archives](https://github.com/glennrp/libpng) available in git form,
the older versions don't have their autoconfery vendored in, so I
can't link to them. Fortunately the relevant bit hasn't changed since
then:
a37d483651/configure (L5575)
```
mingw* | pw32*)
# Base MSYS/MinGW do not provide the 'file' command needed by
# func_win32_libid shell function, so use a weaker test based on 'objdump',
# unless we find 'file', for example because we are cross-compiling.
if ( file / ) >/dev/null 2>&1; then
lt_cv_deplibs_check_method='file_magic ^x86 archive import|^x86 DLL'
lt_cv_file_magic_cmd='func_win32_libid'
else
# Keep this pattern in sync with the one in func_win32_libid.
lt_cv_deplibs_check_method='file_magic file format (pei*-i386(.*architecture: i386)?|pe-arm-wince|pe-x86-64)'
lt_cv_file_magic_cmd='$OBJDUMP -f'
fi
;;
```
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
libtool's libtool.m4 script assumes that `file` is available, and can
be found at `/usr/bin/file` (this path is hardwired). Furthermore,
the script with this assumption is vendored into the ./configure
scripts of an enormous number of packages. Without this commit, you
will frequently see errors like this during the configurePhase with
the sandbox enabled:
./configure: line 9595: /usr/bin/file: command not found
Due mostly to luck, this error does not affect native compiles on
nixpkgs' two most popular platforms, x86_64-linux and aarch64-linux.
However it will cause incorrect linker flag detection and a failure to
generate shared libraries for sandboxed cross-builds to a x86_64-linux
host as well as any sandboxed build (cross or native) for the following
hosts: x86_64-freebsd, *-hpux, *-irix, mips64*-linux, powerpc*-linux,
s390x-linux, s390x-tpf, sparc-linux, and *-solaris.
This commit fixes the problem by adding an extra line to fixLibtool()
in pkgs/stdenv/generic/setup.sh. This extra line will scan the
unpacked source code for executable files named "configure" which
contain the following text:
'GNU Libtool is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify'
This text is taken to be an indicator of a vendored libtool.m4. When
it is found, the configure script containing it is subjected to `sed
-i s_/usr/bin/file_file_` which replaces all occurrences of
`/usr/bin/file` with `file`.
Additionally, the `file` package is now considered to be part of
`stdenv`. It has been added to `common-path.nix` so that the `file`
binary will be found in the `$PATH` of every build, except for the
bootstrap-tools and the first few stages of stdenv boostrapping.
Verified no regressions under:
nix-build --arg pkgs 'import ./. {}' ./lib/tests/release.nix
This commit allows the following commands to complete, which should
enable Hydra to produce bootstrap-files for mips64el:
nix-build \
--option sandbox true \
--option sandbox-fallback false \
pkgs/top-level/release-cross.nix \
-A bootstrapTools.mips64el-linux-gnuabi64.build
nix-build \
--option sandbox true \
--option sandbox-fallback false \
. \
-A pkgsCross.mips64el-linux-gnuabi64.nix_2_4
Instead of requiring the platforms be equal, use `isCompatible` to
determine if we can execute tests. The upside of this is that we now
can execute tests for natively cross compiled package sets like
pkgsStatic, pkgsLLVM and pkgsCross.musl64 etc.
canExecute is like isCompatible, but also checks that the Kernels are
_equal_, i.e. that both platforms use the same syscall interface. This
is crucial in order to actually be able to execute binaries for the
other platform.
isCompatible is dropped, since it has changed semantically and there's
no use case left in nixpkgs.
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 configureFlags should be a list of strings
