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Eelco Dolstra
5e2cf44a4d * Put WEXITSTATUS stuff somewhere else. 2004-06-22 11:03:41 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
84007a0958 * Reduce gratuitous cut & pasting. 2004-06-22 10:21:44 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
c9fbd2dfd5 * Wrapper class around pids. 2004-06-22 09:51:44 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
155d7c8dfa * Substitutes should occupy a build slot. 2004-06-22 09:00:31 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
c4cb6ea2bc * Refactoring. 2004-06-22 08:50:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3f3a3ae87b * Acquire a lock on the output path when running a substitute. Also
delete obstructing invalid paths.
2004-06-21 09:35:50 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
72c857f0eb * Ugh, nasty Heisenbug due to an uninitialiased variable. The bug
only caused a crash if the program was *not* invoked with a high
  verbosity level.
2004-06-21 08:51:55 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
112ee89501 * Re-enable support for substitutes in the normaliser.
* A better substitute mechanism.

  Instead of generating a store expression for each store path for
  which we have a substitute, we can have a single store expression
  that builds a generic program that is invoked to build the desired
  store path, which is passed as an argument.

  This means that operations like `nix-pull' only produce O(1) files
  instead of O(N) files in the store when registering N substitutes.
  (It consumes O(N) database storage, of course, but that's not a
  performance problem).

* Added a test for the substitute mechanism.
  
* `nix-store --substitute' reads the substitutes from standard input,
  instead of from the command line.  This prevents us from running
  into the kernel's limit on command line length.
2004-06-20 19:17:54 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
23bb902d1f * Re-enable build hooks. 2004-06-19 21:45:04 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
41ec982f31 * Big refactoring. Move to a much more explicitly state machine based
approach.  This makes it much easier to add extra complexity in the
  normaliser / realiser (e.g., build hooks, substitutes).
2004-06-18 18:09:32 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
0b70231b9d * Refactoring. 2004-06-15 13:49:42 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1bc6afefac * Cleanup. 2004-06-08 13:21:03 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5e4a2272bf * Drain the output of the build hook to show error messages. Ugly
hack.
2004-05-18 14:52:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
8e9fd57ef9 * setpgrp() is not POSIX (and on Mac OS X it's different than on
Linux), so use setpgid().
2004-05-18 09:45:18 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
ace8872706 * execl() requires a terminating 0.
* When a fast build wakes up a goal, try to start that goal in the
  same iteration of the startBuild() loop of run().  Otherwise no job
  might be started until the next job terminates.
2004-05-14 12:24:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
4fc00cbec1 * Distributed builds and load balancing now seem to work pretty well.
(Though the `build-remote.pl' script has a gigantic race condition).
2004-05-13 22:52:37 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
25db622454 * Load balancing. `build-remote.pl' will only execute up to a
per-machine maximum number of parallel jobs on a remote machine.
2004-05-13 19:35:46 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
a8306cb98f * The build hooks used to implement distributed builds can now be run
in parallel.  Hooks are more efficient: locks on output paths are
  only acquired when the hook says that it is willing to accept a
  build job.  Hooks now work in two phases.  First, they should first
  tell Nix whether they are willing to accept a job.  Nix guarantuees
  that no two hooks will ever be in the first phase at the same time
  (this simplifies the implementation of hooks, since they don't have
  to perform locking (?)).  Second, if they accept a job, they are
  then responsible for building it (on the remote system), and copying
  the result back.  These can be run in parallel with other hooks and
  locally executed jobs.

  The implementation is a bit messy right now, though.  

* The directory `distributed' shows a (hacky) example of a hook that
  distributes build jobs over a set of machines listed in a
  configuration file.
2004-05-13 19:14:49 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
efa5fa1a91 * A switch `-j NUMBER' to set the maximum number of parallel jobs (0 =
no limit).
* Add missing file to distribution.
2004-05-12 14:20:32 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
aa5a5084e4 * Pass to the build hook all sorts of information useful for
distributing a build action to another machine.  In particular, the
  paths in the input closures, the output paths, and successor mapping
  for sub-derivations.
2004-05-12 13:32:26 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
8c0b42f857 * An quick and dirty hack to support distributed builds. 2004-05-12 09:35:51 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
c8d3882cdc * True parallel builds. Nix can now run as many build jobs in
parallel as possible (similar to GNU Make's `-j' switch).  This is
  useful on SMP systems, but it is especially useful for doing builds
  on multiple machines.  The idea is that a large derivation is
  initiated on one master machine, which then distributes
  sub-derivations to any number of slave machines.  This should not
  happen synchronously or in lock-step, so the master must be capable
  of dealing with multiple parallel build jobs.  We now have the
  infrastructure to support this.

  TODO: substitutes are currently broken.
2004-05-11 18:05:44 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
a4d2b22c8c * Be stricter in verifying store paths. 2004-04-14 08:08:55 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
7823db2137 * Some more nesting. 2004-03-22 21:42:28 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
a5619f1dff * Set the NIX_STORE and NIX_BUILD_TOP environment variables in
builders to point to the store and the temporary build directory,
  respectively.  Useful for purity checking.
* Also set TEMPDIR, TMPDIR, TEMP, and TEMP to NIX_BUILD_TOP to make
  sure that tools in the builder store temporary files in the right
  location.
2004-03-12 10:45:08 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
6f5a5ea5ea * Regression fix: realise substitutes and detect cycles. 2004-02-13 10:45:09 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
447089a5f6 * Catch SIGINT to terminate cleanly when the user tries to interrupt
Nix.  This is to prevent Berkeley DB from becoming wedged.

  Unfortunately it is not possible to throw C++ exceptions from a
  signal handler.  In fact, you can't do much of anything except
  change variables of type `volatile sig_atomic_t'.  So we set an
  interrupt flag in the signal handler and check it at various
  strategic locations in the code (by calling checkInterrupt()).
  Since this is unlikely to cover all cases (e.g., (semi-)infinite
  loops), sometimes SIGTERM may now be required to kill Nix.
2004-01-15 20:23:55 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
ab0bc4999a * Maintain integrity of the substitute and successor mappings when
deleting a path in the store.
* Allow absolute paths in Nix expressions.
* Get nix-prefetch-url to work again.
* Various other fixes.
2003-11-22 18:45:56 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
7a02d95418 * Remove lock files after building. 2003-11-21 16:05:19 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
ce92d1bf14 * "Nix expression" -> "store expression".
* More refactoring.
2003-11-18 11:22:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
9f0f020929 * libnix -> libstore. 2003-11-18 10:55:27 +00:00
Renamed from src/libnix/normalise.cc (Browse further)