Cross-compilation of anything downstream of gtk3 requires qemu (due to
gobject-introspection) with --target-list=*-linux-user. Without this commit,
those qemu builds will fail on a powerpc64le host due to qemu being configured
with --cpu=powerpc64le instead of --cpu=ppc64le. Unfortunately the build
failure message from qemu in this situation is extremely cryptic.
The root cause turns out not to be the qemu expression, but rather the fact that
on powerpc64le hostPlatform.uname.processor returns the gnu-name (powerpc64le)
for the cpu instead of the linux-name (ppc64le) for the cpu.
uname.processor on mips64el also needs adjustment -- the Linux-name is "mips64"
for both big and little endian (unlike powerpc64, where the Linux-name includes
a "le" suffix):
```
nix@oak:/tmp$ uname -m; lscpu | head -n2
mips64
Architecture: mips64
Byte Order: Little Endian
```
uname.processor on powerpc32 has also been adjusted.
A tricky thing about FreeBSD is that there is no stable ABI across
versions. That means that putting in the version as part of the config
string is paramount.
We have a parsed represenation that separates name versus version to
accomplish this. We include FreeBSD versions 12 and 13 to demonstrate
how it works.
Move already implemented functionality to the upper level so
it could be used in a more generic way.
Signed-off-by: Ivan Nikolaenko <ivan.nikolaenko@unikie.com>
```
nix-repl> pkgsCross.arm-embedded.stdenv.hostPlatform.emulatorAvailable pkgsCross.arm-embedded.buildPackages
false
nix-repl> pkgsCross.aarch64-multiplatform.stdenv.hostPlatform.emulatorAvailable pkgsCross.aarch64-multiplatform.buildPackages
true
```
will be useful for stuff like handling https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/187109
The comment in lib/systems/default.nix for uname.processor indicates that it
should match `uname -p`. I tried that command and found that it reports
`unknown` on all of these machines:
- `x86_64-linux`
- `aarch64-linux`
- `mips64el-linux`
- `powerpc64le-linux`
The command `uname -m` reports the expected value on all of the above.
I think the comment is wrong. So I fixed it.
canExecute is like isCompatible, but also checks that the Kernels are
_equal_, i.e. that both platforms use the same syscall interface. This
is crucial in order to actually be able to execute binaries for the
other platform.
isCompatible is dropped, since it has changed semantically and there's
no use case left in nixpkgs.
Since the list only gates the platforms the nixpkgs flake exposes
packages to build on, the `hydra` label made little sense. It was also
only used for this purpose, so the `tier*` attributes were largely
unnecessary.
To reflect the intention more accurately, we expose
`lib.systems.flakeExposed` and use it to gate flake.nix's system list.
MIPS has a large space of {architecture,abi,endianness}; this commit
adds all of them to lib/systems/platforms.nix so we can be done with
it.
Currently lib/systems/inspect.nix has a single "isMips" predicate,
which is a bit ambiguous now that we will have both mips32 and mips64
support, with the latter having two ABIs. Let's add four new
predicates (isMips32, isMips64, isMips64n32, and isMips64n64) and
treat the now-ambiguous isMips as deprecated in favor of the
more-specific predicates. These predicates are used mainly for
enabling/disabling target-specific workarounds, and it is extremely
rare that a platform-specific workaround is needed, and both mips32
and mips64 need exactly the same workaround.
The separate predicates (isMips64n32 and isMips64n64) for ABI
distinctions are, unfortunately, useful. Boost's user-scheduled
threading (used by nix) does does not currently supports mips64n32,
which is a very desirable ABI on routers since they rarely have
more than 2**32 bytes of DRAM.
This will begin the process of breaking up the `useLLVM` monolith. That
is good in general, but I hope will be good for NetBSD and Darwin in
particular.
Co-authored-by: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org>
Looks like these got left behind in the
kernelArch -> linuxArch migration.
Fixes:
* pkgsCross.powernv.linuxHeaders
* pkgsCross.riscv64.linuxHeaders
* pkgsCross.riscv32.linuxHeaders
and dependees
The `platform` field is pointless nesting: it's just stuff that happens
to be defined together, and that should be an implementation detail.
This instead makes `linux-kernel` and `gcc` top level fields in platform
configs. They join `rustc` there [all are optional], which was put there
and not in `platform` in anticipation of a change like this.
`linux-kernel.arch` in particular also becomes `linuxArch`, to match the
other `*Arch`es.
The next step after is this to combine the *specific* machines from
`lib.systems.platforms` with `lib.systems.examples`, keeping just the
"multiplatform" ones for defaulting.
This makes things a little bit more convenient. Just pass in like:
$ nix-build ’<nixpkgs>’ -A hello --argstr localSystem x86_64-linux --argstr crossSystem aarch64-linux
