This has a major advantage: you can write hooks directly in Nix
expressions. For instance, rather than write a builder like this:
source $stdenv/setup
postInstall=postInstall
postInstall() {
ln -sf gzip $out/bin/gunzip
ln -sf gzip $out/bin/zcat
}
genericBuild
(the gzip builder), you can just add this attribute to the
derivation:
postInstall = "ln -sf gzip $out/bin/gunzip; ln -sf gzip $out/bin/zcat";
and so a separate build script becomes unnecessary. This should
allow us to get rid of most builders in Nixpkgs.
* Allow configure and make arguments to contain whitespace.
Previously, you could say, for instance
configureFlags="CFLAGS=-O0"
but not
configureFlags="CFLAGS=-O0 -g"
since the `-g' would be interpreted as a separate argument to
configure. Now you can say
configureFlagsArray=("CFLAGS=-O0 -g")
or similarly
configureFlagsArray=("CFLAGS=-O0 -g" "LDFLAGS=-L/foo -L/bar")
which does the right thing. Idem for makeFlags, installFlags,
checkFlags and distFlags.
Unfortunately you can't pass arrays to Bash through the environment,
so you can't put the array above in a Nix expression, e.g.,
configureFlagsArray = ["CFLAGS=-O0 -g"];
since it would just be flattened to a since string. However, you
can use the inline hooks described above:
preConfigure = "configureFlagsArray=(\"CFLAGS=-O0 -g\")";
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Glibc. This is useful when building GCC.
* gcc-wrapper: the dynamic linker has a different name on x86_64 and
powerpc.
* gcc-wrapper: "glibc" -> "libc", because someday we might support
different C libraries.
* gcc: don't do a multilib build (e.g., 32-bit support on x86_64),
don't need it.
* gcc: merge in support for static builds.
* gcc: various simplifications in the compiler/linker flags, hope they
work.
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impure x86_64 environment, make sure that the 32-bit GCC / Glibc
libraries are installed, such as /usr/lib/crti.o.)
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x86_64. Glibc doens't build yet, though (it needs libgcc_eh, which
is strangely missing from the static GCC build).
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* The statically linked bootstrap tools are now automatically
reproducable, just do:
$ nix-build ./make-bootstrap-tools.nix
The resulting binaries in result/in-nixpkgs go to
stdenv/linux/bootstrap/<platform>/, and the tarballs in
result/on-server go to
https://svn.cs.uu.nl:12443/repos/trace/tarballs/trunk/stdenv-linux/<platform>/<revision>/.
These are checked out on nix.cs.uu.nl under http://.../dist/tarballs.
* The statically linked libraries all use dietlibc now (except
patchelf and glibc), so they are much smaller. This is especially
nice for the tools in the Nixpkgs tree, since it makes Nixpkgs
tarballs smaller.
* Use Binutils 2.17 and GCC 4.1.1 for the bootstrap.
* The stdenv is now based on Glibc 2.5. I hope it works ;-)
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set to the result, but don't use them in the actual derivation (so
they're not inputs). Useful to pass through extra attributes that
are not inputs, but should be made available to Nix expressions
using the derivation (e.g., in assertions).
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A stdenv/mingw/pkgs/pkgconfig-builder.sh
Bootstrap pkg-config: support the setup hook.
M stdenv/mingw/fix-builder.sh
Fix the "system" variable.
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Moved all the shell fixes to fix-builder.sh, which is now always invoked.
Added aterm to the list of packages provided by mingw.nix
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- clone of fetchurl that invokes a given chmod to workaround problems
with inappropriate file permissions (executable files are not allowed
by Nix)
- cygpath tool to determine the full windows path of a cygwin
tool. This tool is used to give fetchurl the windows path to chmod.
- native curl.exe
- gcc-wrapper no longer used
- all-packages.nix: allows stdenv to specify fetchurl.
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function to regenerate itself with a different setup script. This
is useful for experimenting with changes to the setup script in
specific packages without triggering a rebuild of everything.
* stdenv/generic/setup-latest.sh is a branch of setup.sh containing
pending changes that will be merged into setup.sh eventually.
* setup-latest.sh: don't use tar's "z" and "j" flags. Rather, call
gzip and bunzip2 directly.
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(ideally, this should be the other way around, but I have no idea how
many packages will break if we enable shared libraries by default)
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contains arbitrary information about a package, like this:
meta = {
homepage = "http://gcc.gnu.org/";
license = "GPL/LGPL";
description = "GNU Compiler Collection, 4.0.x";
};
The "meta" attribute is not passed to the actual derivation
operation, so it's not a dependency --- changes to "meta" attributes
don't trigger a recompilation.
Now we have to standardise some useful attributes ;-)
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all-packages. That is, an attribute like "bash" in all-packages.nix
should evaluate to the "bash" used to build stdenv, it shouldn't
build a new one.
Hm, this would be a lot cleaner if we had lazy_rec ;-)
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Now, switching the curl to this version did not trigger a massive rebuild on
my system, which puzzles me. Maybe it is because no checksum is recorded?
Am I doing something wrong?
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* Use the system Perl on all non-i686-linux platforms.
* Don't build Python support in libxml2 on most platforms.
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$glibc/lib/gconv/ISO-2022-JP.so has an RPATH of `$ORIGIN' so that it
can find glibc/lib/gconv/libJIS.so; `$ORIGIN' should not be filtered
out of the RPATH).
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* Combine most of the archives together into one file (static.bz2).
* Don't depend on Subversion directories, but single files only.
Otherwise any Subversion operation may cause a rebuild because
something in .svn changes. It would be nice if .svn directories
were filtered out when copying things to the store.
* Glibc tarball: removed all .so files, /bin and /sbin, etc., and put
linux-headers in the Glibc tarball.
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this contains mostly Armijn's pure stdenv-linux.
* After unpacking the statically linked GCC, patch all store paths to
/nix/store/ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff. Ugly hack to prevent
undeclared references but it works.
* We don't need Glib's dynamic libraries in the first bootstrap stage;
delete them. Actually the downloaded Glibc binary is only needed
for building Glibc, since GCC needs a C compiler to build some
programs in `configure'. So static linking is fine for that. Maybe
it would be better to patch `configure' so that we don't need a
pre-built Glibc at all.
* Set the svn:executable property on `cp' and `patchelf'.
* In Glibc, revert to LinuxThreads. Maybe NPTL will work, but TLS
support is a problem.
* Delete most Glibc patches; they're no longer needed since the branch
updated it to 20050110.
* Some cleanups.
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be passed to derivations that need to apply patches.
* GCC 3.4 is now the default compiler (old GCC renamed to `gcc-3.3').
* The temporary GCCs built during the stdenvLinux bootstrap are now
built without C++ support and without profiling.
* Remove fixincl in GCC 3.4 to prevent a retained dependency on the
previous GCC.
* Always set $prefix in setup.sh, even when there is no configure
script.
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Use with a bit of care though, because it will need an extra flag to be able to find the right version of cc1, etc.
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`$NIX_BUILD_TOP/env-vars' at the beginning of each build phase. In
conjunction with the `-K' Nix flag, this is useful for debugging: to
reproduce the build environment, go to the saved build directory and
source in `env-vars' (e.g., `. env-vars').
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substitution feature (which appears to be buggy - there's no way to
wait for an output redirection, and bash sometimes appears to die
due to subtle timing conditions). This also removes the most
egregious dependency on bash.
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even if some build phase failed if the variable `$succeedOnFailure'
is set to 1. If that happens, the file `$out/nix-support/failed' is
created to mark the build result as bad. This is useful for release
management systems that might want to publish failed releases.
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* A new `distPhase' to build source distributions (enabled when
$doDist = 1).
* A new `checkPhase' to perform `make check' (enabled when $doCheck =
1).
* Allow the prefix to be redirected, either by setting $prefix or by
setting $useTempPrefix to 1. Useful when making distributions.
* Allow the build or install phases to be skipped by setting
$dontBuild $dontInstall to 1.
* Allow the order of phases to be changed by setting $phases.
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("/usr/bin/ld: can't use -s with -r (resulting file would not be
relocatable)").
* Since stdenv/generic had to be modified for this, I forked it in
situ. This should be merged later.
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On the downside, the build process of stdenvLinux builds gcc 9 times
(3 x 3 bootstrap stages). That's a bit excessive.
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* Make builders unexecutable by removing the hash-bang line and
execute permission.
* Convert calls to `derivation' to `mkDerivation'.
* Remove `system' and `stdenv' attributes from calls to
`mkDerivation'. These transformations were all done automatically,
so it is quite possible I broke stuff.
* Put the `mkDerivation' function in stdenv/generic.
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store, rather than outside (such as /bin/sh).
For instance, the Nix expression for the ATerm library now looks
like this:
{stdenv, fetchurl}:
stdenv.mkDerivation {
name = "aterm-2.0.5";
builder = ./builder.sh;
...
}
where `mkDerivation' is a helper function in `stdenv' that massages
the given attribute set into using the bash shell that is part of
the standard environment:
mkDerivation = attrs: derivation (att s // {
builder = pkgs.bash ~ /bin/sh;
args = ["-e" attrs.builder];
stdenv = (...);
system = (...).system;
});
Note that this makes it unnecessary to set the `stdenv' and `system'
attributes, since `mkDerivation' already does that.
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builders for typical Autoconf-style to be much shorten, e.g.,
. $stdenv/setup
genericBuild
The generic builder does lots of stuff automatically:
- Unpacks source archives specified by $src or $srcs (it knows about
gzip, bzip2, tar, zip, and unpacked source trees).
- Determines the source tree.
- Applies patches specified by $patches.
- Fixes libtool not to search for libraries in /lib etc.
- Runs `configure'.
- Runs `make'.
- Runs `make install'.
- Strips debug information from static libraries.
- Writes nested log information (in the format accepted by
`log2xml').
There are also lots of hooks and variables to customise the generic
builder. See `stdenv/generic/docs.txt'.
* Adapted the base packages (i.e., the ones used by stdenv) to use the
generic builder.
* We now use `curl' instead of `wget' to download files in `fetchurl'.
* Neither `curl' nor `wget' are part of stdenv. We shouldn't
encourage people to download stuff in builders (impure!).
* Updated some packages.
* `buildinputs' is now `buildInputs' (but the old name also works).
* `findInputs' in the setup script now prevents inputs from being
processed multiple times (which could happen, e.g., if an input was
a propagated input of several other inputs; this caused the size
variables like $PATH to blow up exponentially in the worst case).
* Patched GNU Make to write nested log information in the format
accepted by `log2xml'. Also, prior to writing the build command,
Make now writes a line `building X' to indicate what is being
built. This is unfortunately often obscured by the gigantic tool
invocations in many Makefiles. The actual build commands are marked
`unimportant' so that they don't clutter pages generated by
`log2html'.
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checked whether absolute paths passed to gcc/ld refer to the store,
which is wrong: they can also refer to the build tree
(/tmp/nix-...).
* Less static composition in the construction of stdenv-nix-linux:
gcc-wrapper and generic are now passed in as arguments, rather then
referenced by relative path. This makes it easier to hack on a
specific stage of the bootstrap process (before, a change to, e.g.,
generic/setup.sh would cause all bootstrap stages to be redone).
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- gcc/ld-wrappers have been factored out into a separate
derivation. This allows a working gcc to be installed in the user
environment. (Previously the Nix gcc didn't work because it
needed a whole bunch of flags to point to glibc.)
- Better modularity: packages can specify hooks into the setup
scripts. For instance, setup no longer knows about the
PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable; pkgconfig can set it up instead.
- gcc not longer depends on binutils. This simplifies the bootstrap
process.
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/usr/lib/crt1.o, while it should be using $glibc/lib/crt1.o. This
quick hack (prepending $glibc/lib to the GCC search path using "-B")
fixes the problem, but a better solution to prevent this sort of
thing is to remove these static paths from gcc.
Note: this problem was found using the pure UML Nix environment
(where we don't have /usr/lib).
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