Commit 986f361946 started to use
<nix/fetchurl.nix> to "download" the bootstrap binaries from the
Nixpkgs tree, using the file:/// scheme. This has really bad
consequences:
* It makes any derivation depend on the path of the Nixpkgs tree. So
evaluating a package will produce a different .drv file when run
from different locations. No wonder Hydra evaluation has been so
slow lately: for every Nixpkgs evaluation, it had to create tens of
thousands of .drv files, even if nothing had changed.
* It requires the builder to have file system access to the Nixpkgs
tree. So if your tree is in your home directory, the stdenv
bootstrap would probably fail.
So now the binaries are downloaded from tarballs.nixos.org.
Also dropped PowerPC "support".
Since nix-1.4, nix's corepkgs contain a fetchurl suitable for
downloading the bootstrap binaries. Doing this will allow us to have a
nixpkgs with no in-tree binaries without breaking the purity of the
bootstrap (though for now, they are fetched in-tree until the binaries
are added to nixos.org somewhere). As an additional small benefit, the
in-tree binaries do not have to be hashed on every instantiation as they
do now.
The fetchurl in nix-1.2 and 1.3 isn't able to make binaries executable,
so it can't be used for this case. In that case, attempting to build the
bootstrap will show a message asking the user to manually download each
file and add it to the store with nix-store --add (but the hash is
ultimately the same, of course).
Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
This solves the problem of the change of name in ld.so between
glibc 2.13 and 2.17 (at least for armhf). Some comments about it in
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/234#issuecomment-11764352
As there says, without this, gmp (after glibc built) tests crashed
- segfault.
newest I uploaded yesterday. These have gcc 4.5.1, that fulfills the glibc
2.12.1 requirement of having a compiler equal or greater to gcc 4.4 to build
proper x86 32-bit code (http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12123)
svn path=/nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates/; revision=24523
Allowing 'curl' build without some dependencies, if it is told not to build
with them.
Updating the make-bootstrap-tools for the latest gcc/glibc, removing the
dependency on klibc, and updating unpack-boostrap-tools for the latest
boostrap-tools to work.
svn path=/nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates/; revision=23305
we can't build easily with them gcc-4.4 natively, because of a bug in the ld of the
previous bootstrap-tools.
I updated the unpack script to include the new gcc-4.4 libraries *ppl*.so in patchelfing.
svn path=/nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates/; revision=18835
This comes from:
svn diff ^/nixpkgs/trunk/@18255 ^/nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates/ > diff
patch -p0 < diff
and then adding into svn all files new from the patch.
trunk@18255 comes from the last time I updated stdenv-updates from trunk.
svn path=/nixpkgs/stdenv-updates2/; revision=18272
LD_LIBRARY_PATH since it breaks /bin/sh on non-NixOS platforms (and
reverted the previous "fix" in r15470).
svn path=/nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates/; revision=16029
* Updated stdenv-linux:
- The bootstrap tools are no longer statically linked (except for
binaries in the Nixpkgs tree used to download and unpack the
bootstrap tools).
- x86_64 uses the same static binaries as i686. This makes the
Nixpkgs tree a bit smaller.
- Use the Linux 2.6.28 headers.
svn path=/nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates/; revision=13946
* To prevent this kind of thing, check that all tools are statically
linked.
* Use findutils 4.2.27, 4.2.28 doesn't build with dietlibc.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=6881
impure x86_64 environment, make sure that the 32-bit GCC / Glibc
libraries are installed, such as /usr/lib/crti.o.)
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=6818
x86_64. Glibc doens't build yet, though (it needs libgcc_eh, which
is strangely missing from the static GCC build).
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=6815
* The statically linked bootstrap tools are now automatically
reproducable, just do:
$ nix-build ./make-bootstrap-tools.nix
The resulting binaries in result/in-nixpkgs go to
stdenv/linux/bootstrap/<platform>/, and the tarballs in
result/on-server go to
https://svn.cs.uu.nl:12443/repos/trace/tarballs/trunk/stdenv-linux/<platform>/<revision>/.
These are checked out on nix.cs.uu.nl under http://.../dist/tarballs.
* The statically linked libraries all use dietlibc now (except
patchelf and glibc), so they are much smaller. This is especially
nice for the tools in the Nixpkgs tree, since it makes Nixpkgs
tarballs smaller.
* Use Binutils 2.17 and GCC 4.1.1 for the bootstrap.
* The stdenv is now based on Glibc 2.5. I hope it works ;-)
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=6803
