nixpkgs/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/default.nix
Eelco Dolstra 1e986d8de3 binutils: Use dynamic instead of shared libraries
This reduces the size of binutils from 29 to 17 MiB.
2014-01-07 15:01:59 +01:00

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Nix

{ stdenv, fetchurl, noSysDirs, zlib
, cross ? null, gold ? true, bison ? null
}:
let basename = "binutils-2.23.1"; in
with { inherit (stdenv.lib) optional optionals optionalString; };
stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
name = basename + optionalString (cross != null) "-${cross.config}";
src = fetchurl {
url = "mirror://gnu/binutils/${basename}.tar.bz2";
sha256 = "06bs5v5ndb4g5qx96d52lc818gkbskd1m0sz57314v887sqfbcia";
};
patches = [
# Turn on --enable-new-dtags by default to make the linker set
# RUNPATH instead of RPATH on binaries. This is important because
# RUNPATH can be overriden using LD_LIBRARY_PATH at runtime.
./new-dtags.patch
# Since binutils 2.22, DT_NEEDED flags aren't copied for dynamic outputs.
# That requires upstream changes for things to work. So we can patch it to
# get the old behaviour by now.
./dtneeded.patch
# Make binutils output deterministic by default.
./deterministic.patch
];
buildInputs =
[ zlib ]
++ optional gold bison;
inherit noSysDirs;
preConfigure = ''
# Clear the default library search path.
if test "$noSysDirs" = "1"; then
echo 'NATIVE_LIB_DIRS=' >> ld/configure.tgt
fi
# Use symlinks instead of hard links to save space ("strip" in the
# fixup phase strips each hard link separately).
for i in binutils/Makefile.in gas/Makefile.in ld/Makefile.in gold/Makefile.in; do
sed -i "$i" -e 's|ln |ln -s |'
done
'';
# As binutils takes part in the stdenv building, we don't want references
# to the bootstrap-tools libgcc (as uses to happen on arm/mips)
NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = "-static-libgcc";
configureFlags =
[ "--enable-shared" "--enable-deterministic-archives" ]
++ optional (stdenv.system == "mips64el-linux") "--enable-fix-loongson2f-nop"
++ optional (cross != null) "--target=${cross.config}"
++ optionals gold [ "--enable-gold" "--enable-plugins" ]
++ optional (stdenv.system == "i686-linux") "--enable-targets=x86_64-linux-gnu";
enableParallelBuilding = true;
meta = {
description = "GNU Binutils, tools for manipulating binaries (linker, assembler, etc.)";
longDescription = ''
The GNU Binutils are a collection of binary tools. The main
ones are `ld' (the GNU linker) and `as' (the GNU assembler).
They also include the BFD (Binary File Descriptor) library,
`gprof', `nm', `strip', etc.
'';
homepage = http://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/;
license = "GPLv3+";
/* Give binutils a lower priority than gcc-wrapper to prevent a
collision due to the ld/as wrappers/symlinks in the latter. */
priority = "10";
};
}