{ lib, stdenv, fetchurlBoot, enableThreading ? stdenv ? glibc }:

with lib;

# We can only compile perl with threading on platforms where we have a
# real glibc in the stdenv.
#
# Instead of silently building an unthreaded perl if this is not the
# case, we force callers to disableThreading explicitly, therefore
# documenting the platforms where the perl is not threaded.
#
# In the case of stdenv linux boot stage1 it's not possible to use
# threading because of the simpleness of the bootstrap glibc, so we
# use enableThreading = false there.
assert enableThreading -> (stdenv ? glibc);

let

  libc = if stdenv.cc.libc or null != null then stdenv.cc.libc else "/usr";

  common = { version, sha256 }: stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
    name = "perl-${version}";

    src = fetchurlBoot {
      url = "mirror://cpan/src/5.0/${name}.tar.gz";
      inherit sha256;
    };

    outputs = [ "out" "man" ];

    patches =
      [ # Do not look in /usr etc. for dependencies.
        ./no-sys-dirs.patch
      ]
      ++ optional stdenv.isSunOS ./ld-shared.patch
      ++ optional stdenv.isDarwin [ ./cpp-precomp.patch ];

    # There's an annoying bug on sandboxed Darwin in Perl's Cwd.pm where it looks for pwd
    # in /bin/pwd and /usr/bin/pwd and then falls back on just "pwd" if it can't get them
    # while at the same time erasing the PATH environment variable so it unconditionally
    # fails. The code in question is guarded by a check for Mac OS, but the patch below
    # doesn't have any runtime effect on other platforms.
    postPatch = optional stdenv.isDarwin ''
      pwd="$(type -P pwd)"
      substituteInPlace dist/PathTools/Cwd.pm \
        --replace "/bin/pwd" "$pwd"
    '';

    sandboxProfile = sandbox.allow "ipc-sysv-sem";

    # Build a thread-safe Perl with a dynamic libperls.o.  We need the
    # "installstyle" option to ensure that modules are put under
    # $out/lib/perl5 - this is the general default, but because $out
    # contains the string "perl", Configure would select $out/lib.
    # Miniperl needs -lm. perl needs -lrt.
    configureFlags =
      [ "-de"
        "-Dcc=cc"
        "-Uinstallusrbinperl"
        "-Dinstallstyle=lib/perl5"
        "-Duseshrplib"
        "-Dlocincpth=${libc}/include"
        "-Dloclibpth=${libc}/lib"
      ]
      ++ optional stdenv.isSunOS "-Dcc=gcc"
      ++ optional enableThreading "-Dusethreads";

    configureScript = "${stdenv.shell} ./Configure";

    dontAddPrefix = true;

    enableParallelBuilding = true;

    # FIXME needs gcc 4.9 in bootstrap tools
    hardeningDisable = [ "stackprotector" ];

    preConfigure =
      ''
        configureFlags="$configureFlags -Dprefix=$out -Dman1dir=$out/share/man/man1 -Dman3dir=$out/share/man/man3"

        ${optionalString stdenv.isArm ''
          configureFlagsArray=(-Dldflags="-lm -lrt")
        ''}
      '' + optionalString stdenv.isDarwin ''
        substituteInPlace hints/darwin.sh --replace "env MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.3" ""
      '' + optionalString (!enableThreading) ''
        # We need to do this because the bootstrap doesn't have a static libpthread
        sed -i 's,\(libswanted.*\)pthread,\1,g' Configure
      '';

    preBuild = optionalString (!(stdenv ? cc && stdenv.cc.nativeTools))
      ''
        # Make Cwd work on NixOS (where we don't have a /bin/pwd).
        substituteInPlace dist/PathTools/Cwd.pm --replace "'/bin/pwd'" "'$(type -tP pwd)'"
      '';

    # Inspired by nuke-references, which I can't depend on because it uses perl. Perhaps it should just use sed :)
    postInstall = ''
      self=$(echo $out | sed -n "s|^$NIX_STORE/\\([a-z0-9]\{32\}\\)-.*|\1|p")

      sed -i "/$self/b; s|$NIX_STORE/[a-z0-9]\{32\}-|$NIX_STORE/eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-|g" "$out"/lib/perl5/*/*/Config.pm
      sed -i "/$self/b; s|$NIX_STORE/[a-z0-9]\{32\}-|$NIX_STORE/eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-|g" "$out"/lib/perl5/*/*/Config_heavy.pl
    '';

    setupHook = ./setup-hook.sh;

    passthru.libPrefix = "lib/perl5/site_perl";

    meta = {
      homepage = https://www.perl.org/;
      description = "The standard implementation of the Perl 5 programmming language";
      maintainers = [ maintainers.eelco ];
      platforms = platforms.all;
    };
  };

in rec {

  perl = perl522;

  perl520 = common {
    version = "5.20.3";
    sha256 = "0jlvpd5l5nk7lzfd4akdg1sw6vinbkj6izclyyr0lrbidfky691m";

  };

  perl522 = common {
    version = "5.22.1";
    sha256 = "09wg24w5syyafyv87l6z8pxwz4bjgcdj996bx5844k6m9445sirb";
  };

}