Very confusingly, the `isPowerPC` predicate in
`lib/systems/inspect.nix` does *not* match `powerpc64le`!
This is because `isPowerPC` is defined as
isPowerPC = { cpu = cpuTypes.powerpc; };
Where `cpuTypes.powerpc` is:
{ bits = 32; significantByte = bigEndian; family = "power"; };
This means that the `isPowerPC` predicate actually only matches the
subset of machines marketed under this name which happen to be 32-bit
and running in big-endian mode which is equivalent to:
with stdenv.hostPlatform; isPower && isBigEndian && is32bit
This seems like a sharp edge that people could easily cut themselves
on. In fact, that has already happened: in
`linux/kernel/common-config.nix` there is a test which will always
fail:
(stdenv.hostPlatform.isPowerPC && stdenv.hostPlatform.is64bit)
A more subtle case of the strict isPowerPC being used instead of the
moreg general isPower accidentally are the GHC expressions:
Update pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/8.10.7.nix
Update pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/8.8.4.nix
Update pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/9.2.2.nix
Update pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/9.0.2.nix
Update pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/head.nix
Since the remaining legitimate use sites of isPowerPC are so few, remove
the isPowerPC predicate completely. The alternative expression above is
noted in the release notes as an alternative.
Co-authored-by: sternenseemann <sternenseemann@systemli.org>
* origin/staging-next: (62 commits)
Re-Revert "lua: fix on darwin by using makeBinaryWrapper (#172749)"
openldap: fix cross-compilation
makeBinaryWrapper: fix codesign on aarch64-darwin
python3Packages.ldap: fix linking with openldap 2.5+
Revert "lua: fix on darwin by using makeBinaryWrapper (#172749)"
wine: enable parallel build again
pkgsi686Linux.gdb: fix formatting for 32-bit systems
gtk4: Fix incorrect merge
nixos/openldap: use upstream unit defaults
openldap: update maintainers
openldap: 2.4.58 -> 2.6.2
Revert "Add mingwW64-llvm cross-system."
lua: fix on darwin by using makeBinaryWrapper (#172749)
python310Packages.python-mimeparse: execute tests
pandas: fix darwin build
gtk3: 3.24.33 -> 3.24.33-2022-03-11
gtk4: patch fixing g-c-c crashes
e2fsprogs: patch for CVE-2022-1304
firefox-unwrapped: fix cross compilation
rustc: expose correct llvmPackages for cross compile
...
Since the list only gates the platforms the nixpkgs flake exposes
packages to build on, the `hydra` label made little sense. It was also
only used for this purpose, so the `tier*` attributes were largely
unnecessary.
To reflect the intention more accurately, we expose
`lib.systems.flakeExposed` and use it to gate flake.nix's system list.
