ghdl: add support for llvm backend

Make the existing ghdl recipe more flexible, and introduce "ghdl_llvm"
as a package in addition to "ghdl_mcode".  This seems to specifically
require llvm 3.5, though.  The flavour is also encoded in the package name.

cc @viric

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/ghdl/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/ghdl/default.nix
index d8b0598e27834..56d778f4f1c6b 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/ghdl/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/ghdl/default.nix
@@ -1,16 +1,26 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, gnat, zlib }:
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, gnat, zlib, llvm_35, ncurses, clang, flavour ? "mcode" }:
+
+# mcode only works on x86, while the llvm flavour works on both x86 and x86_64.
+
+
+assert flavour == "llvm" || flavour == "mcode";
+
 let
+  inherit (stdenv.lib) optional;
+  inherit (stdenv.lib) optionals;
   version = "0.33";
 in
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "ghdl-mcode-${version}";
+  name = "ghdl-${flavour}-${version}";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "https://github.com/tgingold/ghdl/archive/v${version}.tar.gz";
     sha256 = "09yvgqyglbakd74v2dgr470clzm744i232nixyffcds55vkij5da";
   };
 
-  buildInputs = [ gnat zlib ];
+  buildInputs = [ gnat zlib ] ++ optionals (flavour == "llvm") [ clang ncurses ];
+
+  configureFlags = optional (flavour == "llvm") "--with-llvm=${llvm_35}";
 
   patchPhase = ''
     # Disable warnings-as-errors, because there are warnings (unused things)
@@ -23,11 +33,10 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   meta = {
     homepage = "http://sourceforge.net/p/ghdl-updates/wiki/Home/";
-    description = "Free VHDL simulator, mcode flavour";
+    description = "Free VHDL simulator";
     maintainers = with stdenv.lib.maintainers; [viric];
-    # I think that mcode can only generate x86 code,
-    # so it fails to link pieces on x86_64.
-    platforms = with stdenv.lib.platforms; [ "i686-linux" ];
+    platforms = with stdenv.lib.platforms; (if flavour == "llvm" then [ "i686-linux" "x86_64-linux" ]
+      else [ "i686-linux" ]);
     license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl2Plus;
   };
 }