Right now our bootstrapFiles-selecting algorithm uses the
`loongson2f.nix` bootstrapFiles (which were not built by Hydra).
These bootstrapFiles don't work anymore. They were added in 2010 by
40405d03ac.
This commit causes mipsel-linux native builds to use the Hydra-built
bootstrap files from this PR instead:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/183487
See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/222792#pullrequestreview-1356114111
You can't just `lib.filter _ lib.systems.all` -- that throws away
important information, leading to nixpkgs disagreeing with itself
like this:
```
$ NIXPKGS_ALLOW_BROKEN=1 nix-instantiate . -A pkgsStatic.systemd
error: Package ‘systemd-252.5’ in ... is only supported on ... x86_64-linux but not on requested x86_64-linux, refusing to evaluate.
```
After:
```
$ NIXPKGS_ALLOW_BROKEN=1 nix-instantiate . -A pkgsStatic.systemd
error: Package ‘systemd-252.5’ in ... is not available on the requested hostPlatform:
hostPlatform.config = "x86_64-unknown-linux-musl"
package.meta.platforms = [
"aarch64-linux"
"armv5tel-linux"
"armv6l-linux"
"armv7a-linux"
"armv7l-linux"
"i686-linux"
"m68k-linux"
"microblaze-linux"
"microblazeel-linux"
"mipsel-linux"
"mips64el-linux"
"powerpc64-linux"
"powerpc64le-linux"
"riscv32-linux"
"riscv64-linux"
"s390-linux"
"s390x-linux"
"x86_64-linux"
]
package.meta.badPlatforms = [
{
isStatic = true;
parsed = { };
}
]
, refusing to evaluate.
```
The primary motivating example is openssl:
Before the change full package build took 1m54s minutes.
After the change full package build takes 59s.
About a 2x speedup.
The difference is visible because openssl builds hundreds of manpages
spawning a perl process per manual in `install` phase. Such a workload
is very easy to parallelize.
Another example would be `autotools`+`libtool` based build system where
install step requires relinking. The more binaries there are to relink
the more gain it will be to do it in parallel.
The change enables parallel installs by default only for buiilds that
already have parallel builds enabled. There is a high chance those build
systems already handle parallelism well but some packages will fail.
Consistently propagated the enableParallelBuilding to:
- cmake (enabled by default, similar to builds)
- ninja (set parallelism explicitly, don't rely on default)
- bmake (enable when requested)
- scons (enable when requested)
- meson (set parallelism explicitly, don't rely on default)
- waf (set parallelism explicitly, don't rely on default)
- qmake-4/5/6 (enable by default, similar to builds)
- xorg (always enable, similar to builds)
Hydra job building them: https://hydra.nixos.org/build/208909151
The bootstrap files can be reproduced on the commit 21ec906463, e.g. by:
cat $(nix-build pkgs/top-level/release.nix -QA stdenvBootstrapTools.aarch64-linux.dist)/nix-support/hydra-build-products
file tarball /nix/store/kdpbw0plmjqlafjnpbz31ja51m4bd2dk-stdenv-bootstrap-tools/on-server/bootstrap-tools.tar.xz
file busybox /nix/store/kdpbw0plmjqlafjnpbz31ja51m4bd2dk-stdenv-bootstrap-tools/on-server/busybox
and the hashes as well:
nix hash file /nix/store/kdpbw0plmjqlafjnpbz31ja51m4bd2dk-stdenv-bootstrap-tools/on-server/bootstrap-tools.tar.xz
sha256-aJvtsWeuQHbb14BGZ2EiOKzjQn46h3x3duuPEawG0eE=
nix hash path /nix/store/kdpbw0plmjqlafjnpbz31ja51m4bd2dk-stdenv-bootstrap-tools/on-server/busybox
sha256-0MuIeQlBUaeisqoFSu8y+8oB6K4ZG5Lhq8RcS9JqkFQ=
You can check this on any machine, as the builds are on cache.nixos.org
but also you can reproduce the hashes when rebuilt on aarch64-linux HW.
This was disabled here: b86e62d30d (diff-282a02cc3871874f16401347d8fadc90d59d7ab11f6a99eaa5173c3867e1a160)
h/t to @teh: b86e62d30d (commitcomment-77916294)
for pointing out that the failure that @matthewbauer was
seeing was caused by the `separate-debug-info.sh` `build-id` length
requirement that #146275 will relax
`lld` has had `--build-id` support dating back to LLVM4: https://reviews.llvm.org/D18091
This predates every `llvmPackages_` version currently in nixpkgs (and
certainly every version actually still used in `useLLVM` stdenvs) so
with the previous commit (asking `ld` for sufficiently long SHA1 hashes)
I think we can safely enable `separateDebugInfo` when using LLVM
bintools.
with structuredAttrs lists will be bash arrays which cannot be exported
which will be a issue with some patches and some wrappers like cc-wrapper
this makes it clearer that NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE must be a string as lists
in env cause a eval failure
PR #208478 added a lot of documentation about which packages were
rebuilt in each stage of the stdenv bootstrap. However nothing
checks that these comments agree with reality; they can bitrot over
time. This PR rewrites those comments as assertions, so they cannot
bitrot.
This conversion did expose some ambiguity in our scheme for naming
the stages. Suppose that `pkgs.stdenv.name=="stdenv-stage4", then
which of these is "the stage4 coreutils"?
```
pkgs.coreutils
pkgs.stdenv.__bootPackages.coreutils
```
The choice is arbitrary, and both choices have confusing corner
cases. We should revisit this at some point.
Hydra job building them: https://hydra.nixos.org/build/208909151
The bootstrap files can be reproduced on the parent commit, e.g. by:
cat $(nix-build pkgs/top-level/release.nix -QA stdenvBootstrapTools.aarch64-linux.dist)/nix-support/hydra-build-products
file tarball /nix/store/kdpbw0plmjqlafjnpbz31ja51m4bd2dk-stdenv-bootstrap-tools/on-server/bootstrap-tools.tar.xz
file busybox /nix/store/kdpbw0plmjqlafjnpbz31ja51m4bd2dk-stdenv-bootstrap-tools/on-server/busybox
and the hashes as well:
nix hash file /nix/store/kdpbw0plmjqlafjnpbz31ja51m4bd2dk-stdenv-bootstrap-tools/on-server/bootstrap-tools.tar.xz
sha256-aJvtsWeuQHbb14BGZ2EiOKzjQn46h3x3duuPEawG0eE=
nix hash path /nix/store/kdpbw0plmjqlafjnpbz31ja51m4bd2dk-stdenv-bootstrap-tools/on-server/busybox
sha256-0MuIeQlBUaeisqoFSu8y+8oB6K4ZG5Lhq8RcS9JqkFQ=
You can check this on any machine, as the builds are on cache.nixos.org
but also you can reproduce the hashes when rebuilt on aarch64-linux HW.
