According to https://wiki.osdev.org/GNAT_Cross-Compiler building
libada is not possible when building a cross compiler. Unfortunately I
haven't been able to determine if this is upstream's position as well,
but sure enough disabling libada lets us build a GNAT cross compiler.
Okay, GCC might not technically support _every_ platform in
platforms.unix, but I think it would be easier to subtract those as
they're discovered, if that even matters, rather than trying to
exhaustively list every Unix it does support.
(I ran into this because I wanted to build GCC for NetBSD, which it
definitely supports.)
gcc's configure system has the nasty habit (for us) of judging for
itself if it is building a cross compiler (or cross compiling), but on
the limited information of the build, host and target platforms' config
which only contains a subset of the information we encode in
`stdenv.*Platform`. The practical consequence was that prior to this
change building `pkgsLLVM.buildPackages.gcc` actually fails because it
refuses to use `--with-headers` with something it believes to not be a
cross compiler.
As a workaround we force the appropriate variable in the configure
script to always be `yes` regardless of its own conditional check.
At some point we probably should report this issue in some capacity, so
future gcc versions don't force us into workarounds like this and
acdc783418.
This patch was applied to gcc7 in aab8c7ba43 ("netbsd: add cross target"),
but it hasn't been brought forward to newer compilers that have the
same problem.
GCC 6 and (probably) GCC 4.9 also have the issue, but the patch
doesn't apply cleanly to them so I'm leaving them alone for now.
GCC 10, our current default, appears to have finally fixed this.
Don't rely on gcc detecting from the passed platforms which prefix to
use, but always specify the prefix nixpkgs expects (or doesn't). This
allows us to work around problems where the configure script would add
prefix where nixpkgs doesn't expect one (if `--target` was specified,
but the same as `--host`) or doesn't add one if nixpkgs expects one (if
`--target` and `--host` are the same, but we are actually cross
compiling, but the relevant parts of the platform are not encoded into
the platform config.
See also ca9be0511b.
This causes some minor ugliness during stdenv bootstrap on powerpc64le
using cross-compiled bootstrap tools. MPFR wants to use decimal floats
by default so they have to be manually disabled in the configure flags
when using cross-compiled bootstrap tools.
The lineage of this particular configure flag traces back to 2010 (!)
It was added in commit: 9b1d5353a9
I've built various cross bootstrap tools and they seem to work fine,
so I don't think this is needed anymore.
In order to support stackprotector on musl32, this change import a
couple of patches from alpinelinux:
1. libssp_nonshared.a is built alongside musl's libc
2. the above library is automatically linked when compiling with gcc6
or gcc7
This is needed to build grub2 for powerpc64le hosts. Running powerpcle code
on powerpc64le is somewhat analogous to running multiarch i686 code on x86_64,
so it's also useful to have in general.
The `platform` field is pointless nesting: it's just stuff that happens
to be defined together, and that should be an implementation detail.
This instead makes `linux-kernel` and `gcc` top level fields in platform
configs. They join `rustc` there [all are optional], which was put there
and not in `platform` in anticipation of a change like this.
`linux-kernel.arch` in particular also becomes `linuxArch`, to match the
other `*Arch`es.
The next step after is this to combine the *specific* machines from
`lib.systems.platforms` with `lib.systems.examples`, keeping just the
"multiplatform" ones for defaulting.
When cross compiling to the same kernel / arch combination, it is safe
to use strip of libraries. This happens when cross-compiling musl
programs. dontStrip is now set in each gcc compiler instead of in
gcc/builder.sh.
Fixes#75476
continuation of #109595
pkgconfig was aliased in 2018, however, it remained in
all-packages.nix due to its wide usage. This cleans
up the remaining references to pkgs.pkgsconfig and
moves the entry to aliases.nix.
python3Packages.pkgconfig remained unchanged because
it's the canonical name of the upstream package
on pypi.
We can use use `stdenv.hostPlatform.isStatic` instead, and move the
logic per package. The least opionated benefit of this is that it makes
it much easier to replace packages with modified ones, as there is no
longer any issue of overlay order.
CC @FRidh @matthewbauer
