nixpkgs/pkgs/development/libraries/glibc-2.9/default.nix
Lluís Batlle i Rossell 2aba922d30 My first attempt at getting cross compilers in nixpkgs.
My idea is to provide special stdenv expressions that will contain in the path
additional cross compilers. As most expressions for programs accept a stdenv parameter, 
we could substitute this parameter with the special stdenv, which will have a
generic builder that attempts the usual "--target=..." and can additionally
have an env variable like "cross" with the target architecture set.
So, finally we could have additional expressions like this:

bashRealArm = makeOverridable (import ../shells/bash) {
    inherit fetchurl bison;
    stdenv = stdenvCross "armv5tel-unknown-linux-gnueabi";
};

Meanwhile it does not work - I still cannot get the cross-gcc to build.

I think it does not fill the previous expressions with a lot of noise, so I
think it may be a good path to follow.

I only touched some files of the current stdenv: gcc-4.3, kernel headers
2.6.28, glibc 2.9, ...

I tried to use the gcc-cross-wrapper, that may be very outdated. Maybe I will
update it, or update the gcc-wrapper expression to make it fit the cross tools,
but meanwhile I even cannot build gcc, so I have not tested the wrapper.

This new idea on cross compiling is not similar to that of the
nixpkgs/branches/cross-compilation, which mostly added bare new expressions for
anything to be cross compiled, if I understood it correctly.

I cared not to break anything of the usual stdenv in all this work.


svn path=/nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates/; revision=18343
2009-11-14 08:11:30 +00:00

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{ stdenv, fetchurl, kernelHeaders
, installLocales ? true
, profilingLibraries ? false
, cross ? null
, binutilsCross ? null
, gccCross ? null
}:
stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
name = "glibc-2.9" +
stdenv.lib.optionalString (cross != null) "-${cross}";
builder = ./builder.sh;
src = fetchurl {
url = http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/glibc-2.9.tar.bz2;
sha256 = "0v53m7flx6qcx7cvrvvw6a4dx4x3y6k8nvpc4wfv5xaaqy2am2q9";
};
srcPorts = fetchurl {
url = http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/glibc-ports-2.9.tar.bz2;
sha256 = "0r2sn527wxqifi63di7ns9wbjh1cainxn978w178khhy7yw9fk42";
};
inherit kernelHeaders installLocales;
inherit (stdenv) is64bit;
patches = [
/* Fix for NIXPKGS-79: when doing host name lookups, when
nsswitch.conf contains a line like
hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4
don't return an error when mdns4_minimal can't be found. This
is a bug in Glibc: when a service can't be found, NSS should
continue to the next service unless "UNAVAIL=return" is set.
("NOTFOUND=return" refers to the service returning a NOTFOUND
error, not the service itself not being found.) The reason is
that the "status" variable (while initialised to UNAVAIL) is
outside of the loop that iterates over the services, the
"files" service sets status to NOTFOUND. So when the call to
find "mdns4_minimal" fails, "status" will still be NOTFOUND,
and it will return instead of continuing to "dns". Thus, the
line
hosts: mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4
does work because "status" will contain UNAVAIL after the
failure to find mdns4_minimal. */
./nss-skip-unavail.patch
/* Make it possible to override the locale-archive in NixOS. */
./locale-override.patch
/* Have rpcgen(1) look for cpp(1) in $PATH. */
./rpcgen-path.patch
/* Support GNU Binutils 2.20 and above. */
./binutils-2.20.patch
];
configureFlags = [
"--enable-add-ons"
"--with-headers=${kernelHeaders}/include"
(if profilingLibraries then "--enable-profile" else "--disable-profile")
] ++ stdenv.lib.optionals (cross != null) [
"--target=${cross}"
] ++ (if (stdenv.system == "armv5tel-linux") then [
"--host=arm-linux-gnueabi"
"--build=arm-linux-gnueabi"
"--without-fp"
] else []);
buildInputs = stdenv.lib.optionals (cross != null) [ binutilsCross gccCross ];
preInstall = ''
ensureDir $out/lib
ln -s ${stdenv.gcc.gcc}/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 $out/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
'';
postInstall = ''
rm $out/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
'';
# Workaround for this bug:
# http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=411
# I.e. when gcc is compiled with --with-arch=i686, then the
# preprocessor symbol `__i686' will be defined to `1'. This causes
# the symbol __i686.get_pc_thunk.dx to be mangled.
NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = "-U__i686";
meta = {
homepage = http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/;
description = "The GNU C Library";
};
}