And there's more reverts too. The previous commmit
d838afbc9376bdadb8c690eb00b425f3eeccdf2d to gnu-config finally solves
it!
This reverts commit 3ed545ab31146e607c57649936c75869d6aa9ba2.
ARM ABIs now have a float field. This is used as a fallback to lessen
our use of `platform.gcc.float`. I didn't know what the MIPs convention
is so I kept using `platform.gcc.float` in that case.
To mitigate Spectre Variant 2, GCC needs to have retpoline
support (-mindirect-branch and -mfunction-return arguments on amd64
and i386).
Patches were pulled from H.J. Lu's backport branch to
4.9 (hjl/indirect/gcc-4_9-branch), available at
https://github.com/hjl-tools/gcc/tree/hjl/indirect/gcc-4_9-branch/master. Upstream
GCC does not apply patches to anything older than the
gcc-6-branch. H.J. Lu is the author of the upstream retpoline commits
as well.
Several Linux distributions already backported these patches to GCC 4
branches and some old kernels (3.13 for instance) have been recompiled
with these GCC patches. These kernels only allow to load kernel
modules that are compiled with the retpoline support.
References:
- Ubuntu bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcc-4.8/+bug/1749261
- Ubuntu package: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcc-4.8/4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.4Fixes#38394
Following legacy packing conventions, `isArm` was defined just for
32-bit ARM instruction set. This is confusing to non packagers though,
because Aarch64 is an ARM instruction set.
The official ARM overview for ARMv8[1] is surprisingly not confusing,
given the overall state of affairs for ARM naming conventions, and
offers us a solution. It divides the nomenclature into three levels:
```
ISA: ARMv8 {-A, -R, -M}
/ \
Mode: Aarch32 Aarch64
| / \
Encoding: A64 A32 T32
```
At the top is the overall v8 instruction set archicture. Second are the
two modes, defined by bitwidth but differing in other semantics too, and
buttom are the encodings, (hopefully?) isomorphic if they encode the
same mode.
The 32 bit encodings are mostly backwards compatible with previous
non-Thumb and Thumb encodings, and if so we can pun the mode names to
instead mean "sets of compatable or isomorphic encodings", and then
voilà we have nice names for 32-bit and 64-bit arm instruction sets
which do not use the word ARM so as to not confused either laymen or
experienced ARM packages.
[1]: https://developer.arm.com/products/architecture/a-profile
(cherry picked from commit ba52ae50488de85a9cf60a3a04f1c9ca7122ec74)
Following legacy packing conventions, `isArm` was defined just for
32-bit ARM instruction set. This is confusing to non packagers though,
because Aarch64 is an ARM instruction set.
The official ARM overview for ARMv8[1] is surprisingly not confusing,
given the overall state of affairs for ARM naming conventions, and
offers us a solution. It divides the nomenclature into three levels:
```
ISA: ARMv8 {-A, -R, -M}
/ \
Mode: Aarch32 Aarch64
| / \
Encoding: A64 A32 T32
```
At the top is the overall v8 instruction set archicture. Second are the
two modes, defined by bitwidth but differing in other semantics too, and
buttom are the encodings, (hopefully?) isomorphic if they encode the
same mode.
The 32 bit encodings are mostly backwards compatible with previous
non-Thumb and Thumb encodings, and if so we can pun the mode names to
instead mean "sets of compatable or isomorphic encodings", and then
voilà we have nice names for 32-bit and 64-bit arm instruction sets
which do not use the word ARM so as to not confused either laymen or
experienced ARM packages.
[1]: https://developer.arm.com/products/architecture/a-profile
Existing "mips64el" should be "mipsel".
This is just the barest minimum so that nixpkgs can recognize them as
systems - although required for building individual derivations onto
MIPS boards, it is not sufficient if you want to actually build nixos on
those targets
This commit breaks native armv7l-linux builds. Revert it until it can
be root-caused. This reversion does not affect other platforms or
cross-compiling.
This reverts commit 0f5c80463176f7b146e8ef1943a3bbd61d4cbaf0.
Now that we do `--enable-targes=all`, there is no risk of missing the
needed emulation.
This reverts commit ebc9b161cd184502bf4912b9348a507e2d0540da.
This reverts commit 88efc22b44dedf423398491f9a55d1631b0b50ff.
- NIX_CC_CROSS is now completely gone!
- NIX_CC is defined reliably, so no manual def needed
- stdenv.ccCross -> stdenv.cc, also removing need for "or" fallback
Previously configureFlags was defined as one giant interpolated string.
Here we refactor this definition to instead use the usual stdenv string
combinators. This seems more in-line with the average nixpkgs expression
and it seems a bit more natural to things of these as lists of flags
rather than monolithic strings.
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.
This reverts commit 0a944b345e89ca0096974d168f49e1c6830c3fc2, reversing
changes made to 61733ed6ccde3427016720f2e0cd191d3d95152c.
I dislike these massive stdenv changes with unclear motivation,
especially when they involve gratuitous mass renames like NIX_CC ->
NIX_BINUTILS. The previous such rename (NIX_GCC -> NIX_CC) caused
months of pain, so let's not do that again.
...just as we did for binutils. When the underlying issue is resolved
(probably with a configure script patch or lib/systems/parse.nix
change), this should be reverted.
This fixes the gcc build but results in a gcc that doesn't generate
valid binaries.
gcc -o hello hello.c
./hello
Killed: 9
This reverts commit 2adf36ab8c7903e100e6e7a0a6447934ec09b10e.
* pkgs: refactor needless quoting of homepage meta attribute
A lot of packages are needlessly quoting the homepage meta attribute
(about 1400, 22%), this commit refactors all of those instances.
* pkgs: Fixing some links that were wrongfully unquoted in the previous
commit
* Fixed some instances
Host everywhere would be guaranteed to preserve the old semantics,
but in a few places it doesn't matter in practice, target is used
instead for clarity.
See previous commit for what was done to `binutils` to make this
possible.
There were some uses of `forcedNativePackages` added. The
combination of overrides with that attribute is highly spooky: it's
often important that if an overridden package comes from it, the
replaced arguments for that package come from it. Long term this
package set and all the spookiness should be gone and irrelevant:
"Move along, nothing to see here!"
No hashes should be changed with this commit
stdenv.cross is a silly attribute that needs to go leaving the well-defined hostPlatform and targetPlatform. This PR doesn't remove it, but changes its definition: before it tracked the target platform which is sometimes more useful for compilers, and now it tracks the host platform which is more useful for everything else. Most usages are libraries, falling in the "everything else" category, so changing the definition makes sense to appease the majority. The few compiler (gcc in particular) uses that exist I remove to use targetPlatform --- preserving correctness and becoming more explicit in the process.
I would also update the documentation aside mentioning stdenv.cross as deprecated, but the definition given actually erroneously assumes this PR is already merged!
The previous commit redefines `stdenv.cross` for the sake of normal
libaries, the most common use-case of that attribute. Some compilers
however relied on the old definition so we have them use
`targetPlatform` instead. This special casing is fine because we
eventually want to remove `stdenv.cross` and use either `hostPlatform`
or `targetPlatform` instead.
This should eliminate the branched logic for gfortran on Darwin, as well
as preventing accidental inclusion of impure paths in gcc and gfortran
builds.
Darwin systems need to be able to find CoreFoundation headers as well as
libc headers. Somehow, gcc doesn't accept any "framework" parameters
that would normally be used to include CoreFoundation in this
situation.
HACK: Instead, this adds a derivation that combines the two. The result
works but probably not a good long term solution.
ALTERNATIVES: Maybe sending patches in to GCC to allow
"native-system-framework" configure flag to get this found.
gcc needs to be able find system headers. Without this, gcc fails to build because
/usr/include is not available.
Note: stdenv.libc should be available for all stdenv's, I think.
This should get gcc48, gcc5, and gcc6 working again.
Also: use makeLibraryPath, and makeSearchPathOutput for LIBRARY_PATH and
CPATH. This is a refactor but it also fixes an issue with zlib.
- disable bootstrap builds on Darwin
- remove xcrun calls
- check if patchelf is available before using
- apply darwin patch for gcc4.9
- fixes#16047
- fixes#14812
