Updating the cross-build expressions, adding some flexibility.
Updated the linux headers used cross building, as 2.6.28 had bugs on endianness in
sparc64.
There were, as usual some bugs in gcc. Maybe not many make a cross compiler to
ultrasparc.
For the record, I could build an ultrasparc kernel with this base nix:
import /etc/nixos/nixpkgs/default.nix # The root nixpkgs default.nix
{
crossSystem = {
config = "sparc64-unknown-linux";
bigEndian = true;
arch = "sparc64";
float = "soft";
withTLS = true;
cpu = "ultrasparc";
};
config = pkgs: {
packageOverrides = pkgs : {
platform = {
name = "sparc64";
kernelHeadersBaseConfig = "sparc64_defconfig";
kernelBaseConfig = "sparc64_defconfig";
kernelArch = "sparc";
kernelAutoModules = false;
kernelTarget = "zImage";
uboot = null;
};
};
};
}
Although it did not boot directly in qemu-system-sparc64:
[sparc64] Kernel already loaded
Unhandled Exception 0x0000000000000020
PC = 0x0000000000404000 NPC = 0x0000000000404004
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- Adding ghdl with gcc 4.4 (with a patch I built for it to work)
- Adding me as maintainer to both gccs and ghdl
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I fixed conflicts regarding the renaming 'kernel' -> 'linux' in all-packages.
Also a small conflict in all-packages about making openssl overridable.
And I some linux 2.6.31-zen kernel files also marked in conflict.
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The wrapper script for ghc-pkg changes the command's default behavior such that
global packages -- i.e. packages that are part of GHC itself -- are no longer
found:
$ ghc-pkg describe base
ghc-pkg: cannot find package base
This patch remedies the problem.
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make cabal expression add etxra library paths only if they exist.
Adding myself as maintainer so that the buildfarm builds ghc.
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ghdl-wrapper.
I made the gcc-4.3.4 expression allow the 'vhdl' language through ghdl.
The ghdl developer recommends this gcc version; maybe it would work with
gcc-4.4. If not this ghdl version, maybe next versions.
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Some things don't work:
- The ghdl expression (it still needs the gcc 4.3.4 src, ...)
- The gnat wrappers need to be more generic - now they work only for the
given gnatboot (taken from gentoo) and gnats installed to their $out
store path.
- Using the cloogppl and ppl. We will need our own gnatboot built with c++
libraries for that.
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source regions which are substituded by the tool nix-repository-manager.
See http://github.com/MarcWeber/nix-repository-manager/raw/master/README.
sourceByName is called sourceFromHead now.
updates: MPlayerTrunk, haxe, neko, netsurf, cinelerra, ctags
cinelerra does no longer build due to Xorg update
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the target libraries, as 4.3.4
I trigger the breaking build using uclibc, instead of glibc, and then the
mixture of CPP getting the build glibc headers, and CC getting the uclibc
headers, makes the problem evident.
In 4.3.4 it only affected libmudflap. In 4.4.2, it affects libmudflap and
libstdc++.
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through libtool.
I found a make variable holding flags that will not be trimmed by libtool:
FLAGS_FOR_TARGET.
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Dealt with the gcc 4.4 expression for it to work well for a native and a cross
compiler, adding a pair of patches to get the job done without much side
effects. One (libtool problems on -B) comes from the gcc 4.3 expression, while
the other fixes a bug already fixed in gcc 4.4.3.
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between uclibc/glibc still.
I started the renaming from glibc to libc regarding the cross-toolchain, but I
still have to finish.
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used to cross-compile, because of some bug in 4.4.2 I think. This bug does not
allow building a cross-compiler without libc:
http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20091119.140407.040d3c5b.en.html
Maybe we should wait for 4.4.3 or stay with 4.4.1 cross compiling. By now I
will keep 4.3.4 on cross compilation.
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Fixing the glibc-2.10 expression on cross-builds (which should be ported to
the glibc-2.11 expression once we get "ports" there)
Making kde3 and cyrus-sasl use gcc-4.3, because the strictness in gcc-4.4 does
not allow them build.
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native strip. So we now distinguish dontStrip and dontCrossStrip. I updated
the expressions for glibc-2.9 and glibc-2.11 accordingly.
I could get rid of the cross-glibc depending on the cross-gcc-stage-static.
Enabling nls in the final cross-gcc.
I still have problems on wint_t/wchar_t not working on cross build. Gettext
does not build.
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- Before this changes, cflags and ldflags for the native and the cross compiler
got mixed. Not all the gcc-wrapper/gcc-cross-wrapper variables are
independant now, but enough, I think.
- Fixed the generic stdenv expression, which did a big mess on buildInputs and
buildNativeInputs. Now it distinguishes when there is a stdenvCross or not.
Maybe we should have a single stdenv and forget about the stdenvCross
adapter - this could end in a stdenv a bit complex, but simpler than the
generic stdenv + adapter.
- Added basic support in pkgconfig for cross-builds: a single PKG_CONFIG_PATH
now works for both the cross and the native compilers, but I think this
should work well for most cases I can think of.
- I tried to fix the guile expression to cross-biuld; guile is built, but not
its manual, so the derivation still fails. Guile requires patching to
cross-build, as far as I understnad.
- Made the glibcCross build to be done through the usage of a
gcc-cross-wrapper over the gcc-cross-stage-static, instead of using it
directly.
- Trying to make physfs (a neverball dependency) cross build.
- Updated the gcc expression to support building a cross compiler without getting
derivation variables mixed with those of the stdenvCross.
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- Stating better the guile dependencies (native/host) for guile to build
- Fixing cross-linking, through --rpath-link (ld(1) explains well about it
- Made gcc call the linker and the assembler through the gcc wrapper instead of
directly. I thought this was the source of missing -rpath's, but the source
of the problem ended up being the lack of --rpath-link. But I think the
native gcc calls the wrapped ld and as, so let's do the same cross
compiling.
- Removed the binutilsCross from the glibc expressions. Now they are built
using the gcc-cross-wrapper, and they were built with the direct gcc and
binutils before this change.
- I think patchelf and strip don't break the cross-compiled binaries, so I
reallow them on cross compilation.
- I disable the checkPhase on cross compilation. This made gmp and libtool
fail when cross compiled, iirc.
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`selectVersion ./foo "bar"' instead of `import ./foo/bar.nix'.
* Replaced `with args' with formal function arguments in several
packages.
* Renamed several files to `default.nix'. As a general rule, version
numbers should only be included in the filename when there is a
reason to keep multiple versions of a package in Nixpkgs.
Otherwise, it just makes it harder to update the package.
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It still does not work, but I think I already get glibc cross compiled.
Next: gcc and g++, and set some setup script hooks on stdenvCross.
It took quite enough hours for this commit.
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My idea is to provide special stdenv expressions that will contain in the path
additional cross compilers. As most expressions for programs accept a stdenv parameter,
we could substitute this parameter with the special stdenv, which will have a
generic builder that attempts the usual "--target=..." and can additionally
have an env variable like "cross" with the target architecture set.
So, finally we could have additional expressions like this:
bashRealArm = makeOverridable (import ../shells/bash) {
inherit fetchurl bison;
stdenv = stdenvCross "armv5tel-unknown-linux-gnueabi";
};
Meanwhile it does not work - I still cannot get the cross-gcc to build.
I think it does not fill the previous expressions with a lot of noise, so I
think it may be a good path to follow.
I only touched some files of the current stdenv: gcc-4.3, kernel headers
2.6.28, glibc 2.9, ...
I tried to use the gcc-cross-wrapper, that may be very outdated. Maybe I will
update it, or update the gcc-wrapper expression to make it fit the cross tools,
but meanwhile I even cannot build gcc, so I have not tested the wrapper.
This new idea on cross compiling is not similar to that of the
nixpkgs/branches/cross-compilation, which mostly added bare new expressions for
anything to be cross compiled, if I understood it correctly.
I cared not to break anything of the usual stdenv in all this work.
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