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.
(and gitiles)
This allows fetching a patch from servers that return them
base64-encoded, like this:
fetchpatch {
name = "gcc.patch";
url = "f37ae3b1a8^!?format=TEXT";
decode = "base64 -d";
sha256 = "11j1bqz2p8xrfzgfrylgdvmqs45489c4ckl7l0ra1dpfgbqy94a8";
}
Fixes linker errors while building build.rs where it tries to link libiconv but cannot find it.
Rust executable build for Darwin need libiconv, and indeed buildInputs already has this case handled.
So why is another change needed? Suppose we are cross compiling from Darwin (the build platform) to something else, and the package has a build.rs build script.
The build script is built for the build platform (Darwin) and is also a regular Rust executable, needing libiconv, but due to cross compilation (and strict deps) we need an extra nativeBuildInput.
writeShellApplication currently uses the unwrapped (passthru) attribute
which is simply defined as the ShellCheck Haskell package.
Unfortunately the unwrapped version contains everything and the kitchen
sink, while the bin output of the top-level shellcheck package contains
only the static shellcheck executable.
In other words, by using writeShellApplication, currently 3GB of
packages have to be unnecessarily fetched just to run the checkPhase.
$ nix path-info -Sh $(nix build --print-out-paths --no-link nixpkgs#shellcheck.unwrapped)
/nix/store/23x8702b9kqn0r8swah05ky7w5fnh6m2-ShellCheck-0.9.0 3.0G
$ nix path-info -Sh $(nix build --print-out-paths --no-link nixpkgs#shellcheck.bin)
/nix/store/594izb2jz3c57c7hgxfnb6irypnr4575-shellcheck-0.9.0-bin 45.3M
There is no benefit to using shellcheck.unwrapped in this case.
Therefore, replace shellcheck.unwrapped with lib.getExe shellcheck.
`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.
Previously, you had to provide the path to the deps.nix of the package inside
your Nixpkgs checkout as an argument manually. Now it just does that by default
when no argument is passed.
unpackFile doesn't dereference symlinks if cargoDeps is a directory, and
some cargo builds run into permission issues because the files the
symlinks point to are not writable.
