This PR adds Hydra-generated bootstrap tarballs for mips64el-linux. I'll be following the script established in https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/151399, which I previously used in https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/168199.
Files came from [this](https://hydra.nixos.org/build/182757245) Hydra build, which used nixpkgs revision ef3fe254f3 to instantiate:
```
/nix/store/a2bvv663wjnyhq8m7v84aspsd3sgf9h6-stdenv-bootstrap-tools-mips64el-unknown-linux-gnuabi64.drv
```
and then built:
```
/nix/store/aw3dmsrh22831l83vi3q9apg9qi3x8ms-stdenv-bootstrap-tools-mips64el-unknown-linux-gnuabi64
```
I downloaded these files from Hydra with the following commands:
```
STOREPATH=aw3dmsrh22831l83vi3q9apg9qi3x8ms-stdenv-bootstrap-tools-mips64el-unknown-linux-gnuabi64
OPTIONS="--option binary-caches https://cache.nixos.org"
nix store add-file \
--name bootstrap-tools.tar.xz \
$(nix-store ${OPTIONS} -r /nix/store/${STOREPATH})/on-server/bootstrap-tools.tar.xz
nix store add-path \
--name busybox \
$(nix-store ${OPTIONS} -r /nix/store/${STOREPATH})/on-server/busybox
```
I then prefetched them into `/nix/store` with:
```
$ nix store prefetch-file --executable file:///nix/store/aw3dmsrh22831l83vi3q9apg9qi3x8ms-stdenv-bootstrap-tools-mips64el-unknown-linux-gnuabi64/on-server/busybox
Downloaded 'file:///nix/store/aw3dmsrh22831l83vi3q9apg9qi3x8ms-stdenv-bootstrap-tools-mips64el-unknown-linux-gnuabi64/on-server/busybox' to '/nix/store/ai30ss23914syz6j8m95arkwffbbx44k-busybox' (hash 'sha256-sTE58ofjqAqX3Xtq1g9wDxzIe6Vo//GHbicfqJoivDI=').
$ nix store prefetch-file file:///nix/store/aw3dmsrh22831l83vi3q9apg9qi3x8ms-stdenv-bootstrap-tools-mips64el-unknown-linux-gnuabi64/on-server/bootstrap-tools.tar.xz
Downloaded 'file:///nix/store/aw3dmsrh22831l83vi3q9apg9qi3x8ms-stdenv-bootstrap-tools-mips64el-unknown-linux-gnuabi64/on-server/bootstrap-tools.tar.xz' to '/nix/store/nr6zjrbwbxcxs6brf042zsyqllwbwj9v-bootstrap-tools.tar.xz' (hash 'sha256-tTgjeXpd2YgnfP4JvRuO0bXd2j8GqzBcd57JI3wH9x0=').
```
And started the bootstrap with the following command (the `--arg localSystem` is needed because #161159 has not merged):
```
nix build -f . -L hello --arg localSystem '(import ./lib).systems.examples.mips64el-linux-gnuabi64'
```
As @lovesegfault requested in #151399, here are the the `sha256sum`s of all the `on-server` components for extra verification:
```
$ sha256sum /nix/store/aw3dmsrh22831l83vi3q9apg9qi3x8ms-stdenv-bootstrap-tools-mips64el-unknown-linux-gnuabi64/on-server/*
b53823797a5dd988277cfe09bd1b8ed1b5ddda3f06ab305c779ec9237c07f71d /nix/store/aw3dmsrh22831l83vi3q9apg9qi3x8ms-stdenv-bootstrap-tools-mips64el-unknown-linux-gnuabi64/on-server/bootstrap-tools.tar.xz
598e05abb69b2c1a0db46585cd2131212077c0937ce2a665daf3811f059ae767 /nix/store/aw3dmsrh22831l83vi3q9apg9qi3x8ms-stdenv-bootstrap-tools-mips64el-unknown-linux-gnuabi64/on-server/busybox
```
In 5643714dea, I changed pkgs/stdenv/linux/make-bootstrap-tools.nix
to take a package set instead of system and localSystem arguments, but
I forgot to update make-bootstrap-tools-cross.nix.
Fixes: 5643714dea ("stdenvBootstrapTools: inherit {cross,local}System")
During stdenv bootstrapping, coreutils is built twice. This makes
troubleshooting very difficult, because both packages have
name="coreutils", so it is a hassle to figure out "which coreutils am
I using / is not building"?
The first of these builds is used only in stage4, and is not part of
the final stdenv. Let's label that one with a different `name`
attribute to make it obvious which is which.
The usage of `makeStaticLibraries` in stdenv/linux/default.nix is
prefaced by this comment:
# Link GCC statically against GMP etc. This makes sense because
# these builds of the libraries are only used by GCC, so it
# reduces the size of the stdenv closure.
However "these builds of the libraries are only used by GCC" is not
actually true. As currently written, the stage4 coreutils links
against these customized, static-ified libraries.
Beside the fact that the code doesn't actually do what it says, this
causes other problems as well. One example is #168983, which arises
because have a dynamically-linked binary (coreutils) which is built
from statically-linked libraries (libgmp.a); doing this causes mayhem
on platforms where `-fstack-protector` needs an auxiliary
`libssp.{so,a}` library; we end up with link failures because some
parts of the resulting binary want `libssp.so` and other parts want
`libssp_nonshared.a`.
Let's make the code actually do what the comment says, by moving these
definitions into the `gcc-unwrapped` override. This will cause the
stage4-coreutils to link against libgmp dynamically, rather than
statically. For this reason this commit depends on the previous
commit, which allows that to be done without creating a forbidden
reference from stdenv-final to the bootstrap-files.
As explained in the comment, this ensures that stage4-coreutils does
not leak a reference to the bootstrap-files by way of libgmp. This
will allow the next patch in this series to build stage4-coreutils
using a dynamically-linked (rather than statically-linked) libgmp.
It's expected that attributes in the top-level package set will all use
that package set, but this wasn't the case for the bootstrap tools.
This led some very confusing behaviour:
- pkgsMusl.stdenvBootstrapTools would build glibc bootstrap tools
- stdenvBootstrapTools was _always_ cross compiled, even if
Nixpkgs wasn't, because it always set crossSystem. This also didn't
match the behaviour of using make-bootstrap-tools.nix as an
entrypoint, where crossSystem would default to null.
For the Linux stdenv, I've made the ideal fix, which is to make pkgs an
argument rather than taking the arguments for pkgs, and then
re-importing it. This means it'll always use exactly the same package
set that's calling it, and should also mean faster eval due to not
importing Nixpkgs twice.
The Darwin stdenv is more complicated, and I'm not able to easily test
it, so I wasn't confident in making the same fix there. Instead, I've
just made sure crossSystem and localSystem are set to the correct values
so they're not always cross compiled and match the parent package set's.
It would still be preferable if somebody could make Darwin's
make-bootstrap-tools.nix take pkgs as an argument, rather than all the
arguments for pkgs.
These servers apparently no longer exist, since September 2, 2021[1].
If somebody needs this for non-Scaleway machines, they should suggest
its reintroduction with a different name.
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27192757
libtool's libtool.m4 script assumes that `file` is available, and can
be found at `/usr/bin/file` (this path is hardwired). Furthermore,
the script with this assumption is vendored into the ./configure
scripts of an enormous number of packages. Without this commit, you
will frequently see errors like this during the configurePhase with
the sandbox enabled:
./configure: line 9595: /usr/bin/file: command not found
Due mostly to luck, this error does not affect native compiles on
nixpkgs' two most popular platforms, x86_64-linux and aarch64-linux.
However it will cause incorrect linker flag detection and a failure to
generate shared libraries for sandboxed cross-builds to a x86_64-linux
host as well as any sandboxed build (cross or native) for the following
hosts: x86_64-freebsd, *-hpux, *-irix, mips64*-linux, powerpc*-linux,
s390x-linux, s390x-tpf, sparc-linux, and *-solaris.
This commit fixes the problem by adding an extra line to fixLibtool()
in pkgs/stdenv/generic/setup.sh. This extra line will scan the
unpacked source code for executable files named "configure" which
contain the following text:
'GNU Libtool is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify'
This text is taken to be an indicator of a vendored libtool.m4. When
it is found, the configure script containing it is subjected to `sed
-i s_/usr/bin/file_file_` which replaces all occurrences of
`/usr/bin/file` with `file`.
Additionally, the `file` package is now considered to be part of
`stdenv`. It has been added to `common-path.nix` so that the `file`
binary will be found in the `$PATH` of every build, except for the
bootstrap-tools and the first few stages of stdenv boostrapping.
Verified no regressions under:
nix-build --arg pkgs 'import ./. {}' ./lib/tests/release.nix
This commit allows the following commands to complete, which should
enable Hydra to produce bootstrap-files for mips64el:
nix-build \
--option sandbox true \
--option sandbox-fallback false \
pkgs/top-level/release-cross.nix \
-A bootstrapTools.mips64el-linux-gnuabi64.build
nix-build \
--option sandbox true \
--option sandbox-fallback false \
. \
-A pkgsCross.mips64el-linux-gnuabi64.nix_2_4
canExecute is like isCompatible, but also checks that the Kernels are
_equal_, i.e. that both platforms use the same syscall interface. This
is crucial in order to actually be able to execute binaries for the
other platform.
isCompatible is dropped, since it has changed semantically and there's
no use case left in nixpkgs.
This PR adds Hydra-generated bootstrap tarballs for powerpc64le-linux.
I'll be following the script established in PR to tarballs.nixos.org.
Files came from this Hydra build:
https://hydra.nixos.org/build/172142499
Which used nixpkgs revision 49a83445c2
to instantiate:
/nix/store/gj272sd56gsj6qpyzh4njpfzwdhviliz-stdenv-bootstrap-tools-powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu.drv
and then built:
/nix/store/n81pljbd8m0xgypm84krc2bnvqgjrfxx-stdenv-bootstrap-tools-powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu
I downloaded these files from Hydra with the following commands:
```
STOREPATH=n81pljbd8m0xgypm84krc2bnvqgjrfxx-stdenv-bootstrap-tools-powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu
OPTIONS="--option binary-caches https://cache.nixos.org"
nix store add-file \
--name bootstrap-tools.tar.xz \
$(nix-store ${OPTIONS} -r /nix/store/${STOREPATH})/on-server/bootstrap-tools.tar.xz
nix store add-path \
--name busybox \
$(nix-store ${OPTIONS} -r /nix/store/${STOREPATH})/on-server/busybox
```
As @lovesegfault requested in #151399, here are the the `sha256sum`s
of all the `on-server` components for extra verification:
```
$ sha256sum /nix/store/n81pljbd8m0xgypm84krc2bnvqgjrfxx-stdenv-bootstrap-tools-powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu/on-server/*
036d062869f7accf0ad89714d12029469dfe6af504f9b226d61eb7d808ad4735 /nix/store/n81pljbd8m0xgypm84krc2bnvqgjrfxx-stdenv-bootstrap-tools-powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu/on-server/bootstrap-tools.tar.xz
6bc05832180f5075f4458c32eb0a5e2b673f605884dce01822be474f4e0a63ee /nix/store/n81pljbd8m0xgypm84krc2bnvqgjrfxx-stdenv-bootstrap-tools-powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu/on-server/busybox
```
Co-authored-by: Sandro <sandro.jaeckel@gmail.com>
This reverts commit c1ef87e8d0.
I didn't realize that it would rebuild all linux stdenvs;
I certainly don't want to incur such a rebuild at this point.
When implementing this reviewer request:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/161158#discussion_r822256070
to move mips64el-unknown-linux-* from platforms.nix to examples.nix, I
neglected to update the reference in make-bootstrap-tools-cross.nix.
As a result, the hydra jobs to generate a bootstrap tarball for
mips64el are not running:
https://hydra.nixos.org/eval/1750828?filter=mips&compare=1750620&full=#tabs-errors
This commit fixes the problem, so the hydra job can run. Once it
does, I will submit a PR adding the trusted bootstrap tarball hash to
pkgs/stdenv/linux/bootstrap-files/.
Co-authored-by: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org>
MIPS has a large space of {architecture,abi,endianness}; this commit
adds all of them to lib/systems/platforms.nix so we can be done with
it.
Currently lib/systems/inspect.nix has a single "isMips" predicate,
which is a bit ambiguous now that we will have both mips32 and mips64
support, with the latter having two ABIs. Let's add four new
predicates (isMips32, isMips64, isMips64n32, and isMips64n64) and
treat the now-ambiguous isMips as deprecated in favor of the
more-specific predicates. These predicates are used mainly for
enabling/disabling target-specific workarounds, and it is extremely
rare that a platform-specific workaround is needed, and both mips32
and mips64 need exactly the same workaround.
The separate predicates (isMips64n32 and isMips64n64) for ABI
distinctions are, unfortunately, useful. Boost's user-scheduled
threading (used by nix) does does not currently supports mips64n32,
which is a very desirable ABI on routers since they rarely have
more than 2**32 bytes of DRAM.
`--enable-deterministic-archives` is a GNU specific strip flag and
causes other strip implementations (for example LLVM's, see #138013)
to fail. Since strip failures are ignored, this means that stripping
doesn't work at all in certain situation (causing unnecessary
dependencies etc.).
To fix this, no longer pass `--enable-deterministic-archives`
unconditionally, but instead add it in a GNU binutils specific strip
wrapper only.
`commonStripFlags` was only used for this flag, so we can remove
it altogether.
Future work could be to make a generic strip wrapper, with support for
nix-support/strip-flags-{before,after} and NIX_STRIP_FLAGS_{BEFORE,AFTER}.
This possibly overkill and unnecessary though -- also with the
additional challenge of incorporating the darwin strip wrapper somehow.
