Previously, for tarball flakes, we recorded the original URL of the
tarball flake, rather than the URL to which it ultimately
redirects. Thus, a flake URL like
http://example.org/patchelf-latest.tar that redirects to
http://example.org/patchelf-<revision>.tar was not really usable. We
couldn't record the redirected URL, because sites like GitHub redirect
to CDN URLs that we can't rely on to be stable.
So now we use the redirected URL only if the server returns the
`x-nix-is-immutable` or `x-amz-meta-nix-is-immutable` headers in its
response.
Currently it gives a 500 error with "Do not know how to serve path
'/nix/store/bym5sm8z2wpavnvzancb9gjdlgyzs1l8-nix-internal-api-docs-2.15.0pre20230320_e37f436/share/doc/nix/internal-api'."
The motivation is as stated in issue #7814: even though the the C++ API
is internal and unstable, people still want it to be well documented for
sake of learning, code review, and other purposes that aren't predicated
on it being stable.
Fixes#7814
Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>
This was failing because the check for the existence of the
'installcheck' target failed silently, so the whole phase got
skipped. It works by running 'make -n installcheck 2> /dev/null',
which however barfs with
/nix/store/039g378vc3pc3dvi9dzdlrd0i4q93qwf-binutils-2.39/bin/ld.gold: error: cannot open tests/plugins/plugintest.o: No such file or directory
Fixes#8004.
Building without tests is useful for bootstrapping with a smaller footprint
or running the tests in a separate derivation. Otherwise, we do compile and
run them.
This isn't fine grained as to allow picking `check` but not `installcheck`
or vice versa, but it's good enough for now.
I've tried to use Nixpkgs' `checkInputs`, but those inputs weren't discovered
properly by the configure script. We can emulate its behavior very well though.
Some dependencies supposed to be skipped in the cross build, along with
not using the gold linker. But in https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/6538
this was accidentally not preserved.
Also since https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/6538 we saw some new
aarch64-linux static build failures. This is a first attempt to try to
fix those failures. If this is not sufficient, there are other things we
can try next.
- `nixpkgsFor` does all of native, static, cross, and the different stdenvs.
- The main Nix derivation is no longer duplicated for static.
- DRY nixpkgs.lib and lib.genAttrs calls.
- Refer to current version in readme
- Split into flakes and non-flakes section
- Change order to move nix-build to the end, since people often start
with it in the beginning.
- Use proper "Note" syntax
- Add notes about editor integration
- Move information about target platforms and stdenvs into separate
sections
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
Co-authored-by: Alexander Bantyev <alexander.bantyev@tweag.io>
Co-authored-by: Théophane Hufschmitt <theophane.hufschmitt@tweag.io>
The issue *seems* to be the cross jobs, which are missing the `CXXFLAGS`
needed to get rapidcheck.
PR #6538 would be really nice to resurrect which will prevent the
`configureFlags` from going out of sync between the regular build and
the cross build again.
mdbook-linkcheck is not consistent about its warning setting.
It disables some warnings, but not the warnings about lack of
fragment checking support; hence the extra filtering.
This runs the installer in a QEMU VM. Unlike the old installer test
that ran inside a declaratively built RedHat/Debian image, this uses
an image from Vagrant.
With this, Nix will write a copy of the sandbox shell to /bin/sh in
the sandbox rather than bind-mounting it from the host filesystem.
This makes /bin/sh work out of the box with nix-static, i.e. you no
longer get
/nix/store/qa36xhc5gpf42l3z1a8m1lysi40l9p7s-bootstrap-stage4-stdenv-linux/setup: ./configure: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
