Before the change `pkgsMusl.adobe-reader` was failing the interpreter:
$ nix-instantiate --eval --strict --expr 'with import ./. {}; builtins.tryEval pkgsMusl.adobe-reader'
error:
error: evaluation aborted with the following error message: 'unsupported platform for the pure Linux stdenv'
After the change `pkgsMusl.adobe-reader` returns catchable excation:
$ nix-instantiate --eval --strict --expr 'with import ./. {}; builtins.tryEval pkgsMusl.adobe-reader'
{ success = false; value = false; }
Noticed when was exploring `nixpkgs` for uncatchable evaluation errors.
Ideally those should only happen when there is a code bug in the use
site. In this case it's just a package with incompatible constraints for
`musl`.
Changed uncatchable `abort` to `throw`.
Aka `checkMeta` goes brrr.
Using the module system type checking works OK & generates good error messages.
The performance of using it however is terrible because of the value merging it does being very allocation heavy.
By implementing a very minimal type checker we can drastically improve the performance when nixpkgs is evaluated with `checkMeta = true`.
Without the change bootstrapTools build fails as:
https://cache.nixos.org/log/g5wyq9xqshan6m3kl21bjn1z88hx48rh-stdenv-bootstrap-tools.drv
error: install_name_tool: changing install names or rpaths can't be redone for: /nix/store/0hxg356h7lnl2hck23wrdpbib3cckx41-stdenv-bootstrap-tools/bin/tac (for architecture x86_64) because larger updated load commands do not fit (the program must be relinked, and you may need to use -headerpad or -headerpad_max_install_names)
this makes it a lot easier to create a modified stdenv with a
different set of defaultHardeningFlags and as a bonus allows us
to inject the correct defaultHardeningFlags into toolchain wrapper
scripts, reducing repetition.
while most hardening flags are arguably more of a compiler thing,
it works better to put them in bintools-wrapper because cc-wrapper
can easily refer to bintools but not vice-versa.
mkDerivation can still easily refer to either when it is constructed.
this also switches fortran-hook.sh to use the same defaults for
NIX_HARDENING_ENABLE as for C. previously NIX_HARDENING_ENABLE
defaults were apparently used to avoid passing problematic flags
to a fortran compiler, but this falls apart as soon as mkDerivation
sets its own NIX_HARDENING_ENABLE - cc.hardeningUnsupportedFlags
is a more appropriate mechanism for this as it actively filters
out flags from being used by the wrapper, so switch to using that
instead.
this is still an imperfect mechanism because it doesn't handle a
compiler which has both langFortran *and* langC very well - applying
the superset of the two's hardeningUnsupportedFlags to either
compiler's invocation. however this is nothing new - cc-wrapper
already poorly handles a langFortran+langC compiler, applying two
setup hooks that have contradictory options.
If a CMake target has a non-default LINKER_LANGUAGE set, CMake will
manually add the libraries it has detected that language's compiler as
linking implicitly. When it does this, it'll pass -Bstatic and
-Bdynamic options based on the vibes it gets from each such detected
library. This in itself isn't a problem, because the compiler
toolchain, or our wrapper, or something, seems to be smart enough to
ignore -Bdynamic for those libraries. But it does create a problem if
the compiler adds extra libraries to the linker command line after
that final -Bdynamic, because those will be linked dynamically. Since
our compiler is static by default, CMake should reset to -Bstatic
after it's done manually specifying libraries, but CMake didn't
actually know that our compiler is static by default. The fix for
that is to tell it, like so.
Until recently, this problem was difficult to notice, because it would
result binaries that worked, but that were dynamically linked. Since
e08ce498f0 ("cc-wrapper: Account for NIX_LDFLAGS and NIX_CFLAGS_LINK
in linkType"), though, -Wl,-dynamic-linker is no longer mistakenly
passed for executables that are supposed to be static, so they end up
created with a /lib interpreter path, and so don't run at all on
NixOS.
This fixes pkgsStatic.graphite2.
As reported in #241692, since the `llvmPackages` bump the
bootstrap-tools started failing to build due to a mismatch in LLVM
versions used to build certain tools.
By overlaying the imported package set to specify `llvmPackages`, we get
everything built with the expected LLVM version.
Provide a `runPhase` function which wraps the phase running action of
genericBuild. The new function can be used as an interface by `nix
develop`, i.e. `nix develop some#flake --build` may just call `runPhase
build`, which makes its behavior more consistent with `nix build`.
In preparation of fixing https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/6202
The 10.12 Libsystem is not located as a sub-attribute of
`darwin.apple_sdk_10_12`. This will be fixed as part of the SDK changes
planned for post-23.11. In the meantime, special case it so the adapter
can be used to change the deployment target.
This was taken from #264091 to use in the interim before that PR lands
(sometime after the release of 23.11). It allows different versions of
clang to link the same libc++, allowing dependencies to be linked when
they are built with a different version of clang than the stdenv.
This patch switches the CoreFoundation on x86_64-darwin from the open
source swift-corelibs-foundation (CF) to the system CoreFoundation.
This change was motivated by failures building packages for the current
staging-next cycle #263535 due to an apparent incompatibility with the
rpath-based approach to choosing CF or CoreFoundation and macOS 14. This
error often manifests as a crash with an Illegal Instruction.
For example, building aws-sdk-cpp for building Nix will fail this way.
https://hydra.nixos.org/build/239459417/nixlog/1
Application Specific Information:
CF objects must have a non-zero isa
Error Formulating Crash Report:
PC register does not match crashing frame (0x0 vs 0x7FF8094DD640)
Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 CoreFoundation 0x7ff8094dd640 CF_IS_OBJC.cold.1 + 14
1 CoreFoundation 0x7ff8094501d0 CF_IS_OBJC + 60
2 CoreFoundation 0x7ff8093155e8 CFRelease + 40
3 ??? 0x10c7a2c61 s_aws_secure_transport_ctx_destroy + 65
4 ??? 0x10c87ba32 aws_ref_count_release + 34
5 ??? 0x10c7b7adb aws_tls_connection_options_clean_up + 27
6 ??? 0x10c596db4 Aws::Crt::Io::TlsConnectionOptions::~TlsConnectionOptions() + 20
7 ??? 0x10c2d249c Aws::CleanupCrt() + 92
8 ??? 0x10c2d1ff0 Aws::ShutdownAPI(Aws::SDKOptions const&) + 64
9 ??? 0x102d9bc6f main + 335
10 dyld 0x202f333a6 start + 1942
According to a [post][1] on the Apple developer forums, hardening was
added to CoreFoundation, and this particular message occurs when you
attempt to release an object it does not recognize as a valid CF object.
(Thank you to @lilyinstarlight for finding this post).
When I switched aws-sdk-cpp to link against CoreFoundation instead of
CF, the error went away. Somehow both libraries were being used. To
prevent dependent packages from linking the wrong CoreFoundation, it
would need to be added as a propagated build input.
Note that there are other issues related to mixing CF and CoreFoundation
frameworks. #264503 fixes an issue with abseil-cpp where it propagates
CF, causing issues when using a different SDK version. Mixing versions
can also cause crashes with Python when a shared object is loaded that
is linked to the “wrong” CoreFoundation.
`NIX_COREFOUNDATION_RPATH` is supposed to make sure the right
CoreFoundation is being used, but it does not appear to be enough on
macOS 14 (presumably due to the hardening). While it is possible to
propagate CoreFoundation manually, the cleaner solution is to make it
the default. CF remains available as `darwin.swift-corelibs-foundation`.
[1]: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/739355
