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2023-09-04pkgs/stdenv: fix typo in booter.nix docsMartin Zacho1-1/+1
2022-01-07llvmPackages_*: respect cc for target when choosing C++ flavoursternenseemann1-1/+7
llvmPackages_*.clang should check the default compiler for the package set it is targeting (targetPackages.stdenv.cc) instead of the compiler that has been used to build it (stdenv.cc) in order to get some sense of whether to use libc++ or libstdc++. Since we are now inspecting targetPackages in the llvmPackages.clang attribute, we need to avoid using it in the cross stdenv — which just forces us to explicitly request libcxxClang for darwin instead of relying on the clang attribute to pick it for us. We also need to do something similar for targetPackages.stdenv.cc: Here the llvmPackages.clang logic would work as we want (inspect targetPackages.stdenv.cc and if it doesn't exist, make the choice based on stdenv.cc), but it gets locked in a cycle with the previous package. We can easily break this, however: We know that the previous set had clang and the next one doesn't exist, so we'd choose libcxxClang any day of the week.
2019-12-30pkgs/stdenv/booter.nix: Add comment explaining hasCC trickeryJohn Ericson1-1/+5
2019-11-25Add support for cross compiling to `js-ghcjs`John Ericson1-3/+6
This platform doesn't have a C compiler, and so relies and the changes in the previous commit to work.
2019-03-24top-level: Create `pkgs{Build,Host,Target}{Build,Host,Target}`John Ericson1-7/+19
This is needed to avoid confusing and repeated boilerplate for `fooForTarget`. The vast majority of use-cases can still use `buildPackages or `targetPackages`, which are now defined in terms of these.
2019-03-14pkgs/stdenv/booter.nix: fix a typoJan Malakhovski1-1/+1
2017-11-05treewide: Depend on targetPackages.stdenv.cc.bintools instead of binutils ↵John Ericson1-5/+18
directly One should do this when needed executables at run time. It is more honest and cross-friendly than refering to binutils directly, if one neeeds the default binary tools for the target platform, rather than binutils in particular.
2017-11-05Rename `__targetPackages` to `targetPackages`John Ericson1-1/+1
2017-07-04stdenv / booter: imap -> imap1Tim Steinbach1-1/+1
Fix the usage of imap as a follow-up to #25543
2017-04-23top-level: Introduce targetPackages and a "double link fold"John Ericson1-5/+36
Each bootstrapping stage ought to just depend on the previous stage, but poorly-written compilers break this elegence. This provides an easy-enough way to depend on the next stage: targetPackages. PLEASE DO NOT USE IT UNLESS YOU MUST! I'm hoping someday in a pleasant future I can revert this commit :)
2017-01-24top-level: Only splice as needed for performanceJohn Ericson1-7/+6
2017-01-24top-level: Introduce `buildPackages` for resolving build-time depsJohn Ericson1-6/+12
[N.B., this package also applies to the commits that follow it in the same PR.] In most cases, buildPackages = pkgs so things work just as before. For cross compiling, however, buildPackages is resolved as the previous bootstrapping stage. This allows us to avoid the mkDerivation hacks cross compiling currently uses today. To avoid a massive refactor, callPackage will splice together both package sets. Again to avoid churn, it uses the old `nativeDrv` vs `crossDrv` to do so. So now, whether cross compiling or not, packages with get a `nativeDrv` and `crossDrv`---in the non-cross-compiling case they are simply the same derivation. This is good because it reduces the divergence between the cross and non-cross dataflow. See `pkgs/top-level/splice.nix` for a comment along the lines of the preceding paragraph, and the code that does this splicing. Also, `forceNativeDrv` is replaced with `forceNativePackages`. The latter resolves `pkgs` unless the host platform is different from the build platform, in which case it resolves to `buildPackages`. Note that the target platform is not important here---it will not prevent `forcedNativePackages` from resolving to `pkgs`. -------- Temporarily, we make preserve some dubious decisions in the name of preserving hashes: Most importantly, we don't distinguish between "host" and "target" in the autoconf sense. This leads to the proliferation of *Cross derivations currently used. What we ought to is resolve native deps of the cross "build packages" (build = host != target) package set against the "vanilla packages" (build = host = target) package set. Instead, "build packages" uses itself, with (informally) target != build in all cases. This is wrong because it violates the "sliding window" principle of bootstrapping stages that shifting the platform triple of one stage to the left coincides with the next stage's platform triple. Only because we don't explicitly distinguish between "host" and "target" does it appear that the "sliding window" principle is preserved--indeed it is over the reductionary "platform double" of just "build" and "host/target". Additionally, we build libc, libgcc, etc in the same stage as the compilers themselves, which is wrong because they are used at runtime, not build time. Fixing this is somewhat subtle, and the solution and problem will be better explained in the commit that does fix it. Commits after this will solve both these issues, at the expense of breaking cross hashes. Native hashes won't be broken, thankfully. -------- Did the temporary ugliness pan out? Of the packages that currently build in `release-cross.nix`, the only ones that have their hash changed are `*.gcc.crossDrv` and `bootstrapTools.*.coreutilsMinimal`. In both cases I think it doesn't matter. 1. GCC when doing a `build = host = target = foreign` build (maximally cross), still defines environment variables like `CPATH`[1] with packages. This seems assuredly wrong because whether gcc dynamically links those, or the programs built by gcc dynamically link those---I have no idea which case is reality---they should be foreign. Therefore, in all likelihood, I just made the gcc less broken. 2. Coreutils (ab)used the old cross-compiling infrastructure to depend on a native version of itself. When coreutils was overwritten to be built with fewer features, the native version it used would also be overwritten because the binding was tight. Now it uses the much looser `BuildPackages.coreutils` which is just fine as a richer build dep doesn't cause any problems and avoids a rebuild. So, in conclusion I'd say the conservatism payed off. Onward to actually raking the muck in the next PR! [1]: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Environment-Variables.html
2017-01-13stdenv/booter.nix: Add longer note explaining indexingJohn Ericson1-1/+4
2017-01-13top-level: Normalize stdenv bootingJohn Ericson1-0/+65
Introduce new abstraction, `stdenv/booter.nix` for composing bootstraping stages, and use it everywhere for consistency. See that file for more doc. Stdenvs besides Linux and Darwin are completely refactored to utilize this. Those two, due to their size and complexity, are minimally edited for easier reviewing. No hashes should be changed.