Fixes up the usage of patches/postInstall. Also removes `stdenv.lib` and
other minor tweaks.
Based on feedback from Sandro and Mihai.
Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <aseipp@pobox.com>
d81e4d9f66 contained some minor fixes to the yosys derivation
that make it a little easier to read and maintain. Incorporate those.
Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <aseipp@pobox.com>
These plugins can be included in a closure, along with the `yosys`
derivation, and they will be automatically picked up for use. For
example, this allows you to include 'yosys-bluespec' in your
`buildInputs`, and then immediately run:
$ nix-shell -p yosys yosys-bluespec yosys-ghdl
$ yosys -m bluespec -p 'help read_bluespec'
$ yosys -m ghdl -p 'help ghdl'
These two plugins are a bit experimental, admittedly, but they are good,
clean examples of how to write and use the yosys plugin infrastructure,
and make it easy to test updates, etc.
Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <aseipp@pobox.com>
By default, when yosys looks for plugins with the `-m` flag or `plugin`
command, it always looks in `YOSYS_PREFIX/share/yosys/plugins` for a
`.so` file, and loads that.
By design, this is intended to be a single, global, mutable location
such as `/usr/share/yosys/...` on disk, and plugins are supposed to
install their `.so` files here after yosys is installed, and they all
coexist together. Obviously, this won't work for us, but users might
expect these plugins to still work. More importantly, they won't want to
add special cases to their build systems.
Instead, to allow Nix users to use yosys plugins with the same UX (e.g.
natively call `plugin bluespec` or `-m ghdl`), we add a patch to yosys
that allows it to search a new `NIX_YOSYS_PLUGIN_DIRS` search path
environment variable. In tandem, we add a setup hook that adds to this
search path if a package has a `$out/share/yosys/plugins` directory.
Thus, it's enough to just include `yosys`, and any package that has a
yosys plugin in `$out/share/yosys/plugins`, and you can load it with
`-m` or the `plugin` command.
We could use a style like the haskellPackages set, where the set of
packages are "encased" in a lambda, and we pass packages that are
compatible with that version of the compiler:
haskell.packages.ghc8102.ghcWithPackages (p: with p; [ ... ])
but, realistically, there will probably only ever be one version of
yosys and one set of compatible plugins, so this seems overdone.
Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <aseipp@pobox.com>
* fixed buildInputs and nativeBuildInputs for cross compilation
* don't use pkgconfig alias
* simplified patchPhase
* made the version variable overridable in preBuild
Yosys now has their own official scheme for tagging unstable builds;
an automation robot appears from the darkness once every few hours,
bumps the version number, and disappears as silently as they came.
While Nix packages use a date-based version format for unstable
packages, many (most!) users of Yosys use an unstable version. And so
synchronizing the version of the Nix package with the repository version
is significantly less confusing to users. This also adds a safeguard to
ensure others don't forget to bump the version number correctly in the
future.
The testsuite also saw an overhaul (now parallel to help build time), so
some tweaks were needed to get it working again.
Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <aseipp@pobox.com>
