This reduces the number of Python builds in the bootstrap to two: a minimal build and a normal build. Both have LTO disabled, which is required due to missing LLVM LTO libraries. This is necessary to correctly enable LTO builds in Python because it needs `llvm-ar` from `stdenv.cc.cc.libllvm`, which does not exist in the bootstrap.
The old stdenv didn't work, and was also impure. The new one works, and
is pure. Presently, the bootstrap tools are cross compiled into one small
nar and one large tar, which is then unpacked, patched, and split into
smaller derivations. Efforts were made to make the boot process as short
as possible - there are only two clangs built, and as many packages are
propagated between stages as possible while leaving the bootstrap tools
out of the final stdenv's closure.
Fetchers can use the `curl` binary from the bootstrap tools. Allowing packages in the Darwin bootstrap to link curl makes any curl update cause a full rebuild on Darwin, which is undesirable.
After https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/322388, darwin.cctools is just Apple’s cctools again. The replacement for what the bootstrap tools wants is darwin.binutils-unwrapped.
GNU binutils is not preferred on Darwin, and newer versions have issues building. Make it an evaluation error to use it in the Darwin stdenv bootstrap.
- Only link binaries that exist for stage 0 cctools and LLVM bintools;
- Drop cctools-llvm in favor of the updated darwin.binutils; and
- Update llvm-manages Python overrides (needed for newer versions of LLVM).
I realized what rhelmot did in 61202561d9
(specify what packages just need `stdenvNoLibc`) is definitely the right
approach for this, and adjusted NetBSD and OpenBSD to likewise use it.
With that change, we don't need these confusing and ugly `*bsdCross`
package sets at all!
We can get rid of a lot more libc-related `*Cross`, and I will do so
soon, but this is the first step.
(adapted from commit 51f1ecaa59)
For a long time, we've had `crossLibcStdenv`, `*Cross` libc attributes,
and `*bsdCross` pre-libc package sets. This was always bad because
having "cross" things is "not declarative": the naming doesn't reflect
what packages *need* but rather how we *provide* something. This is
ugly, and creates needless friction between cross and native building.
Now, almost all of these `*Cross` attributes are gone: just these are
kept:
- Glibc's and Musl's are kept, because those packages are widely used
and I didn't want to risk changing the native builds of those at this
time.
- generic `libcCross`, `theadsCross`, and friends, because these relate
to the convolulted GCC bootstrap which still needs to be redone.
The BSD and obscure Linux or freestnanding libcs have conversely all
been made to use a new `stdenvNoLibc`, which is like the old
`crossLibcStdenv` except:
1. It usable for native and cross alike
2. It named according to what it *is* ("a standard environment without
libc but with a C compiler"), rather than some non-compositional
jargon ("the stdenv used for building libc when cross compiling",
yuck).
I should have done this change long ago, but I was stymied because of
"infinite recursions". The problem was that in too many cases we are
overriding `stdenv` to *remove* things we don't need, and this risks
cyles since those more minimal stdenvs are used to build things in the
more maximal stdenvs.
The solution is to pass `stage.nix` `stdenvNoCC`, so we can override to
*build up* rather than *tear down*. For now, the full `stdenv` is also
passed, so I don't need to change the native bootstraps, but I can see
this changing as we make things more uniform and clean those up.
Finally, the BSDs also had to be cleaned up, since they have a few
pre-libc dependencies, demanding a systematic approach. I realized what
rhelmot did in 61202561d9 (specify what
packages just need `stdenvNoLibc`) is definitely the right approach for
this, and adjusted NetBSD and OpenBSD to likewise use it.
