Define "brokenRedHatKernel = true" in $NIXPKGS_CONFIG to build a system that

works on Red Hat Linux, i.e. that is based on glibc version 2.5.

Furthermore, this patch fixes a number of gcc 4.3.3 build errors in glibc 2.5
that occur on both x86 and x86_64. The older version of this library is still
useful for running Nix on a Red Hat host. Newer version of glibc fail to detect
the kernel's capabilities correctly (due to mad patches applied to the kernel
by Red Hat).

The individual changes are:

 * Re-activated glibc 2.5 in all-packages.nix.

 * Fix incomplete header search path in bootstrap tools.

   Gcc-wrapper sets "-B<prefix>" to tell the compiler about its installation
   root. Unfortunately, the setting doesn't add $gcc/lib/gcc/*/*/include-fixed
   to the search path. That directory is required, however, because it contains
   the system-specific "limits.h" file, and the glibc 2.5 builds tries to find
   that file via #include_next.

 * Support intrinsic functions like __signbit() or atof() correctly to avoid
   compile-time conflicts.

 * Switch to NPTL. Linuxthreads is no longer supported.

 * Added a meta attribute to glibc package.

 * Updated nixUnstable to version 0.13pre15614 from trunk. The previous version
   failed regression tests.

 * Fix more strict type checking in binutils since 2.18.50.0.3.

   Without this patch, the build failed on x86, saying:

     ../sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c: Assembler messages:
     ../sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c:33: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `fnstsw'

svn path=/nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates/; revision=16037

pkgs/build-support/gcc-wrapper/builder.sh

@@ -17,8 +17,15 @@ if test -z "$nativeLibc"; then
     # against the crt1.o from our own glibc, rather than the one in
     # /usr/lib.  (This is only an issue when using an `impure'
     # compiler/linker, i.e., one that searches /usr/lib and so on.)
-    echo "-B$libc/lib/ -idirafter $libc/include" > $out/nix-support/libc-cflags
-    
+    #
+    # Unfortunately, setting -B appears to override the default search
+    # path. Thus, the gcc-specific "../includes-fixed" directory is
+    # now longer searched and glibc's <limits.h> header fails to
+    # compile, because it uses "#include_next <limits.h>" to find the
+    # limits.h file in ../includes-fixed. To remedy the problem,
+    # another -idirafter is necessary to add that directory again.
+    echo "-B$libc/lib/ -idirafter $libc/include -idirafter $gcc/lib/gcc/*/*/include-fixed" > $out/nix-support/libc-cflags
+
     echo "-L$libc/lib" > $out/nix-support/libc-ldflags
 
     # The dynamic linker is passed in `ldflagsBefore' to allow

pkgs/development/libraries/glibc-2.5/builder.sh

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 # glibc cannot have itself in its rpath.
 export NIX_NO_SELF_RPATH=1
-export NIX_DONT_SET_RPATH=1
 
 source $stdenv/setup
 
@@ -9,17 +8,12 @@ export PWD_P=$(type -tP pwd)
 
 
 postUnpack() {
-    cd $sourceRoot
-    unpackFile $linuxthreadsSrc
-    cd ..
+    cd $sourceRoot/..
 }
 
 
 preConfigure() {
 
-    # Use Linuxthreads instead of NPTL.
-    rm -rf nptl
-
     for i in configure io/ftwtest-sh; do
         substituteInPlace "$i" \
             --replace "@PWD@" "pwd"
@@ -27,7 +21,7 @@ preConfigure() {
 
     mkdir ../build
     cd ../build
-    
+
     configureScript=../$sourceRoot/configure
 }
 
@@ -38,6 +32,7 @@ postConfigure() {
     # test binaries.
     export NIX_CFLAGS_LINK=
     export NIX_LDFLAGS_BEFORE=
+    export NIX_DONT_SET_RPATH=1
 }
 
 
@@ -48,11 +43,6 @@ postInstall() {
     rm $out/etc/ld.so.cache
     (cd $out/include && ln -s $kernelHeaders/include/* .) || exit 1
 
-    # Workaround for the wrong <semaphore.h> getting installed.  This
-    # appears to be a regression:
-    # http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-glibc@lists.debian.org/msg31543.html
-    cp ../$sourceRoot/linuxthreads/semaphore.h $out/include
-
     # Fix for NIXOS-54 (ldd not working on x86_64).  Make a symlink
     # "lib64" to "lib".
     if test -n "$is64bit"; then

pkgs/development/libraries/glibc-2.5/default.nix

@@ -12,22 +12,26 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     md5 = "1fb29764a6a650a4d5b409dda227ac9f";
   };
 
-  linuxthreadsSrc = fetchurl {
-    url = http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/glibc-linuxthreads-2.5.tar.bz2;
-    md5 = "870d76d46dcaba37c13d01dca47d1774";
-  };
-
-  patches = [ ./glibc-pwd.patch ./glibc-getcwd-param-MAX.patch ];
+  patches = [ ./glibc-pwd.patch ./glibc-getcwd-param-MAX.patch ./glibc-inline.patch ./x86-fnstsw.patch ];
 
   inherit kernelHeaders installLocales;
 
   inherit (stdenv) is64bit;
 
-  # `--with-tls --without-__thread' enables support for TLS but causes
-  # it not to be used.  Required if we don't want to barf on 2.4
-  # kernels.  Or something.
   configureFlags="--enable-add-ons
     --with-headers=${kernelHeaders}/include
-    --with-tls --without-__thread --disable-sanity-checks
+    --disable-sanity-checks
     ${if profilingLibraries then "--enable-profile" else "--disable-profile"}";
+
+  # Workaround for this bug:
+  #   http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=411
+  # I.e. when gcc is compiled with --with-arch=i686, then the
+  # preprocessor symbol `__i686' will be defined to `1'.  This causes
+  # the symbol __i686.get_pc_thunk.dx to be mangled.
+  NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = "-U__i686";
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/;
+    description = "The GNU C Library";
+  };
 }

pkgs/development/libraries/glibc-2.5/x86-fnstsw.patch

@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+# --- T2-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
+# This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
+# 
+# T2 SDE: package/.../glibc/x86-fnstsw.patch
+# Copyright (C) 2008 The T2 SDE Project
+# 
+# More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
+# 
+# This patch file is dual-licensed. It is available under the license the
+# patched project is licensed under, as long as it is an OpenSource license
+# as defined at http://www.opensource.org/ (e.g. BSD, X11) or under the terms
+# of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
+# Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
+# version.
+# --- T2-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
+
+Fix more strict checking in binutils since 2.18.50.0.3:
+  sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c:33: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `fnstsw'
+
+  - Rene Rebe <rene@exactcode.de>
+
+--- glibc-2.6.1/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c.vanilla	2008-09-02 12:45:07.000000000 +0200
++++ glibc-2.6.1/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c	2008-09-02 12:46:37.000000000 +0200
+@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
+ int
+ fetestexcept (int excepts)
+ {
+-  int temp;
++  short temp;
+   int xtemp = 0;
+ 
+   /* Get current exceptions.  */

pkgs/tools/package-management/nix/unstable.nix

@@ -4,12 +4,12 @@
 , supportOldDBs ? true
 }:
 
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "nix-0.13pre15214";
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "nix-0.13pre15614";
   
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://hydra.nixos.org/build/17407/download/1/nix-0.13pre15214.tar.bz2;
-    sha256 = "b2423eebb0c70fa2c38d11b5d5e6d8794ebc7283dfde8d1f1c02c54846014ab2";
+    url = "http://hydra.nixos.org/build/32581/download/4/${name}.tar.bz2";
+    sha256 = "236c84cf85739fe1deddd8f98f634eac03df9c7a588f4c1e234e80e84a471d00";
   };
 
   buildInputs = [perl curl openssl];

pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix

@@ -3028,7 +3028,12 @@ let
     inherit fetchurl stdenv pkgconfig gettext;
   };
 
-  glibc = useFromStdenv "glibc" glibc29;
+  glibc = useFromStdenv "glibc" (if getConfig ["brokenRedHatKernel"] false then glibc25 else glibc29);
+
+  glibc25 = import ../development/libraries/glibc-2.5 {
+    inherit fetchurl stdenv kernelHeaders;
+    installLocales = getPkgConfig "glibc" "locales" false;
+  };
 
   glibc27 = import ../development/libraries/glibc-2.7 {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv kernelHeaders;