Setup static building of nix

release-common.nix

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ pkgs }:
+{ pkgs, enableStatic }:
 
 with pkgs;
 
@@ -30,35 +30,42 @@ rec {
   });
 
   configureFlags =
-    lib.optionals stdenv.isLinux [
+    lib.optionals (!enableStatic && stdenv.isLinux) [
       "--with-sandbox-shell=${sh}/bin/busybox"
     ];
 
+  nativeBuildDeps =
+    [
+      buildPackages.bison
+      buildPackages.flex
+      buildPackages.libxml2
+      buildPackages.libxslt
+      buildPackages.docbook5
+      buildPackages.docbook_xsl_ns
+      buildPackages.autoreconfHook
+      buildPackages.pkgconfig
+
+      # Tests
+      buildPackages.git
+      buildPackages.mercurial
+      buildPackages.ipfs
+    ];
+
   buildDeps =
-    [ bison
-      flex
-      libxml2
-      libxslt
-      docbook5
-      docbook_xsl_ns
+    [ autoreconfHook
       autoconf-archive
-      autoreconfHook
 
       curl
       bzip2 xz brotli zlib editline
-      openssl pkgconfig sqlite
+      openssl sqlite
       libarchive
       boost
       nlohmann_json
-
-      # Tests
-      git
-      mercurial
       gmock
     ]
     ++ lib.optionals stdenv.isLinux [libseccomp utillinuxMinimal]
     ++ lib.optional (stdenv.isLinux || stdenv.isDarwin) libsodium
-    ++ lib.optional (stdenv.isLinux || stdenv.isDarwin)
+    ++ lib.optional (!enableStatic && (stdenv.isLinux || stdenv.isDarwin))
       ((aws-sdk-cpp.override {
         apis = ["s3" "transfer"];
         customMemoryManagement = false;

release.nix

@@ -12,16 +12,8 @@ let
     builtins.readFile ./.version
     + (if officialRelease then "" else "pre${toString nix.revCount}_${nix.shortRev}");
 
-  jobs = rec {
-
-    build = pkgs.lib.genAttrs systems (system:
-
-      let pkgs = import nixpkgs { inherit system; }; in
-
-      with pkgs;
-
-      with import ./release-common.nix { inherit pkgs; };
-
+  buildFun = pkgs: enableStatic:
+  with pkgs; with import ./release-common.nix { inherit pkgs enableStatic; };
   stdenv.mkDerivation {
     name = "nix-${version}";
 
@@ -31,10 +23,12 @@ let
 
     buildInputs = buildDeps;
 
+    nativeBuildInputs = nativeBuildDeps;
+
     propagatedBuildInputs = propagatedDeps;
 
     preConfigure =
-          ''
+      lib.optionalString (!enableStatic) ''
         # Copy libboost_context so we don't get all of Boost in our closure.
         # https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/45462
         mkdir -p $out/lib
@@ -51,9 +45,11 @@ let
     configureFlags = configureFlags ++
       [ "--sysconfdir=/etc" ];
 
+    dontUpdateAutotoolsGnuConfigScripts = true;
+
     enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
-        makeFlags = "profiledir=$(out)/etc/profile.d";
+    makeFlags = [ "profiledir=$(out)/etc/profile.d" "PRECOMPILE_HEADERS=0" ];
 
     installFlags = "sysconfdir=$(out)/etc";
 
@@ -67,8 +63,21 @@ let
     doInstallCheck = true;
     installCheckFlags = "sysconfdir=$(out)/etc";
 
-        separateDebugInfo = true;
-      });
+    separateDebugInfo = !enableStatic;
+
+    stripAllList = ["bin"];
+  };
+
+
+  jobs = rec {
+
+
+    build-static = pkgs.lib.genAttrs systems (system:
+      buildFun (import nixpkgs { inherit system; }).pkgsStatic true);
+
+
+    build = pkgs.lib.genAttrs systems (system:
+      buildFun (import nixpkgs { inherit system; }) false);
 
 
     perlBindings = pkgs.lib.genAttrs systems (system: