`builtins.baseNameOf` retains any string context, causing the test
derivation to incorrectly depend on `pkgs.glibc`. All we really want is
to know what the dynamicLinker is called, but we don't need it to be
present in store.
Thanks to Adam Joseph for spotting this.
`hasUnsupportedPlatform` was not updated with #37395, so it does not
understand attrsets in `meta.[bad]platforms`. In particular,
attrsets in `meta.badPlatforms` will "fail open" and be ignored.
Let's use `lib.meta.availableOn` instead of duplicating its logic.
Thanks to @alyssais for [noticing][1].
[1][https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/194148#discussion_r990817610]
Co-authored-by: sternenseemann <sternenseemann@systemli.org>
Just a few comments added:
- added a few one-liners to explore which tools are rebuilt at each
stdenv iteration during bootstrap
- explicitly listed available toolchains and their sources for on each
bootstrap step: glibc, binutils, gcc, coreutils.
- added mention of static libraries linked into gcc
Co-authored-by: Adam Joseph <54836058+amjoseph-nixpkgs@users.noreply.github.com>
The documentation for `meta.sourceProvenance` in
`doc/stdenv/meta.chapter.md` says: "the `meta.sourceProvenance`
attribute should be a list containing one or more value..."
Let's update check-meta.nix to require that `meta.sourceProvenance` is
a list, as the documentation says, rather than a single element.
Adding two extra keystrokes `[` and `]` when filling out this field is
an insignificant burden for package authors, and being able to assume
that the `meta.sourceProvenance` field is always a list greatly
simplifies any code that acts on the value of this field.
Since `meta.sourceProvenance` was just merged a few hours ago now is
the easiest time to fix this: nobody is using the feature yet.
Without the change we don't propagate `enableParallelBuilding = true`
and leave most builds sequential.
Noticed on `mythtv` package which did not specify parallelism and
`config.enableParallelBuildingByDefault = true` had no effect.
Derivations not using `__structuredAttrs` should not attempt to set
environment variables from `env`.
Derivations using `__structuredAttrs` should fail if `env` is not
exportable.
Co-authored-by: Robin Gloster <mail@glob.in>
stdenv: print message if structuredAttrs is enabled
stdenv: add _append
reduces the chance of a user doing it wrong
fix nix develop issue
output hooks don't work yet in nix develop though
making $outputs be the same on non-structuredAttrs and structuredAttrs
is too much trouble.
lets instead make a function that gets the output names
reading environment file '/nix/store/2x7m69a2sm2kh0r6v0q5s9z1dh41m4xf-xz-5.2.5-env-bin'
nix: src/nix/develop.cc:299: std::string Common::makeRcScript(nix::ref<nix::Store>, const BuildEnvironment&, const Path&): Assertion `outputs != buildEnvironment.vars.end()' failed.
use a function to get all output names instead of using $outputs
copy env functionality from https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/76732/commits
In specific cases, combining the `checkMeta` and `checkMetaRecursively`
config options would result in `error: infinite recursion encountered`
fixes#193296
This is needed in order to mark a certain derivation containing a Nix
expression tarball to Hydra so that it is recognised as a channel.
When I first got an evaluation error due to using this meta attribute, I
was under the impression that nobody outside of Vuizvui[1] is using this
feature and that we don't have any occurrence of isHydraChannel in
Nixpkgs.
However, when working around[2] the issue I assumed that it's not
something that should be included in Nixpkgs because we're not using it
there.
It turned out that my assumption was wrong and we *do* use the attribute
in Nixpkgs, namely via releaseTools.channel, which is similar to what
we're doing in Vuizvui.
Since we already include a bunch of undocumented attributes in
metaTypes, it only makes sense to add isHydraChannel as well since it's
actually documented in the Hydra documentation[3].
[1]: https://github.com/openlab-aux/vuizvui
[2]: https://github.com/openlab-aux/vuizvui/commit/e0685e81b3fdc43a272f0
[3]: 53335323ae/doc/manual/src/jobs.md (meta-fields)
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@nix.build>
Passing `-l$NIX_BUILD_CORES` improperly limits the overall system load.
For a build machine which is configured to run `$B` builds where each
build gets `total cores / B` cores (`$C`), passing `-l $C` to make will
improperly limit the load to `$C` instead of `$B * $C`.
This effect becomes quite pronounced on machines with 80 cores, with
40 simultaneous builds and a cores limit of 2. On a machine with this
configuration, Nix will run 40 builds and make will limit the overall
system load to approximately 2. A build machine with this many cores
can happily run with a load approaching 80.
A non-solution is to oversubscribe the machine, by picking a larger
`$C`. However, there is no way to divide the number of cores in a way
which fairly subdivides the available cores when `$B` is greater than
1.
There has been exploration of passing a jobserver in to the sandbox,
or sharing a jobserver between all the builds. This is one option, but
relatively complicated and only supports make. Lots of other software
uses its own implementation of `-j` and doesn't support either `-l` or
the Make jobserver.
For the case of an interactive user machine, the user should limit
overall system load using `$B`, `$C`, and optionally systemd's
cpu/network/io limiting features.
Making this change should significantly improve the utilization of our
build farm, and improve the throughput of Hydra.
Stdenv on aarch64-darwin pulls in (bootstrap-stage4) objc4, unlike
x86_64. However derivations that otherwise depend on objc4 would use a
a different objc4 derivation on top of the final stdenv.
Because this library defines an LLVM module, having multiple instances
of it in the import path will interfere with builds.
