There’s nothing wrong with unstable packages when they are maintained
and frequently updated. However, when they become out-of-date, as many
do, it is usually best to just get rid of them as the stable version
is become newer than the unstable version. This removes any packages
called "unstable" that have not been updated in over 1 year. Affected
packages include:
- isyncUnstable
- sxhkd-unstable
- dosbox-unstable
Revert "treewide: remove unstable packages"
This reverts commit df01b0b37a04624cfe6f8d2ccb42b99289841b68.
The scons build system is python-based and has a binary named scons. Unlike CMake, it cannot generate makefiles so we end up having to override the build, install, and check phases. I have added the setupHook to the scons package so that integration requires no unique steps - just putting scons in nativeBuildInputs should be enough. sconsFlags controls the flags specifically passed to scons while buildFlags, installFlags, and checkFlags should still be usable. Some packages use different names for the prefix flag. In those cases you will have to set "prefixKey" to something like "PREFIX=" as there are multiple names for the "prefix" used in scons.
The waf build system is python-based and hosted locally in each package in the executable file named "waf". Unlike CMake, it cannot generate makefiles so we end up having to override the configure, build, and install phases. I've tried to keep these as close to what's in setup.sh as possible. If there is no waf file in the root directory, then we just copy the one hosted in Nixpkgs. Otherwise the only thing you have to add to a package using Waf is "wafHook" into nativeBuildInputs. wafFlags controls the flags specifically passed to waf while configureFlags, buildFlags, and installFlags are still used as in the generic builder.
Since Nix 2 is now the stable Nix version, we can use closureInfo
which simplifies the Nix database initialisation (size and hash are
included in the "dump").
Upstream changes:
- Fixed: Don't fail when building the manual with AsciiDoc and xmllint.
- Fixed: Some long options (--rule, --rules-file and --rules-data) were
ignored.
- Fixed: Manpage formatting is now more consistent.
- Added: A new --version command line argument for showing version
information.
With the new upstream release recommending to use AsciiDoc to generate
the manpage, I also switched to AsciiDoc instead of Asciidoctor. The
resulting manpage looks better in some ways (for example when definition
lists are used).
I also added an installCheckPhase to ensure that the manpage exists in
the resulting store path.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@nix.build>
Pull request #50246 was merged a bit too quickly and it was supposed to
fix libredirect on Darwin. However it still failed on Darwin and this
was missed by the person merging the pull request.
The reason this was failing was that there is no __xstat* on Darwin.
So I'm adding a wrapper for stat() as well as it works on Darwin and it
still doesn't hurt on GNU/Linux.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@nix.build>
Cc: @edolstra, @zimbatm
This is just a sanity check on whether the library correctly wraps the
syscalls and it's using the "true" executable for posix_spawn() and
execv().
The installCheckPhase is not executed if we are cross-compiling, so this
shouldn't break cross-compilation.
One thing I'm not actually sure is whether ${coreutils}/bin/true is
universally available on all the platforms, nor whether all the
functions we use in the test are available, but we can still fix that
after we've found out about that.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@nix.build>
This is to make sure we get the correct shared library suffix of the
target platform. While for example on Darwin it would even work with the
hardcoded .so prefix it's IMHO a bit nicer to have the actual native
extension.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@nix.build>
