`fixupPhase` move `$out/man` to `$out/share/man`. So the information of their location in the dune-project file is outdated which breaks dependencies on packages ( `(package foo)`).
Sometimes it's more ergonomic to set up the build environment in
hooks, to add to the default behaviour rather than replacing it. It's
very surprising that the fetcher works fine with a custom unpackPhase,
but not with custom preUnpack or postUnpack.
Packages that use preUnpack or postUnpack and Cargo FODs seem to be
very rare. I searched Nixpkgs for files containing one of
"cargoHash", "cargoDeps", and "cargoSha256", and one of "preUnpack" or
"postUnpack", and only found two such packages:
python3.pkgs.tokenizers and rustdesk. Neither of their Cargo FOD
hashes are affected by this change. So if that's any indication,
we're unlikely to be breaking many out-of-tree hashes with these
changes either.
(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.
v1 lock files (generated by default by Cargo versions 1.40 and below)
use a single table, `metadata`, to store the checksums of packages.
The primary motivation for doing this now is that we're considering
vendoring all Cargo lock files in Nixpkgs, some packages still use it
(e.g. cargo-asm), and adding support for it doesn't increase the
complexity of the function. No matter the outcome of the vendoring
discussion, this is a nice thing to have because Cargo still supports v1
lock files.
NixOS/nixpkgs#146275 has more discussion on this; the abridged version
is that `lld` defaults to using `--build-id=fast` while GNU `ld` defaults
to `--build-id=sha1`. These differ in length and so
`separate-debug-info.sh`, as of this writing, errors on `lld`'s shorter
`--build-id=fast`-generated hashes.
`lld` offers the following `build-id` styles:
- UUID (random; fast but bad for reproducibility)
- fast (xxhash; fast but shorter hashes)
- user provided hexstring
- SHA1
- MD5
GNU `ld` supports the latter three options, `mold` supports all of these
plus SHA256.
UUID is out because it's not reproducible, fast isn't supported by GNU
`ld`
Using a nix provided (sourced from the output base hash) hash as the
`build-id` seems tempting but would require a little extra work
(we have to include some characteristic of the binary being hashed
so that binaries within a derivation still have unique hashes; it
seems easy to get this wrong; i.e. a path based approach would make
two otherwise identical binaries that reside at different paths have
different `build-id` hashes)
That leaves SHA1 and MD5 and GNU `ld` already defaults to the former.
This commit adds `$NIX_BUILD_ID_STYLE` as an escape hatch, in case any
packages have strong opinions about which hash to use.
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Note that if/when NixOS/nixpkgs#146275 goes through, this change can be
reverted if linker speed is a priority.
The motivation behind this is to alleviate the problem
described in https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/41340.
I'm not sure if this completely fixes the problem, but it
eliminates one more area where we can exceed command line
length limits.
This is essentially the same change as in #112449,
except for `ld-wrapper.sh` instead of `cc-wrapper.sh`.
However, that change alone was not enough; on macOS the
`ld` provided by `darwin.cctools` fails if you use process
substitution to generate the response file, so I put up a
PR to fix that:
https://github.com/tpoechtrager/cctools-port/pull/131
… and I included a patch referencing that fix so that the
new `ld-wrapper` still works on macOS.
