Our coreutils now uses single-binary-build mode where, by default,
simple shebang scripts are used for all the binaries. That doesn't work
e.g. with the Linux unpacker which only handles standard binaries and
symlinks. Let's use the symlinked mode instead for boostrapping.
This does NOT change any stdenv hashes.
I only tested the case most important to me:
$ nix-build pkgs/top-level/release.nix -A stdenvBootstrapTools.x86_64-linux.test
For some reason, the current bootstrap tools fail to build gettext:
init2.c:37: MPFR assertion failed: (64 - 0) == ((64 - 0)/8) * 8 && sizeof(mp_limb_t) == ((64 - 0)/8)
libxml/xpath.c: In function 'xmlXPathCompPathExpr':
libxml/xpath.c:10627:1: internal compiler error: Aborted
xmlXPathCompPathExpr(xmlXPathParserContextPtr ctxt) {
^
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See <http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html> for instructions.
make[5]: *** [libxml/libxml_rpl_la-xpath.lo] Error 1
I didn't investigate why this is the case but rebuilding the bootstrap
tools seems to help.
I used this old-ish WIP branch https://github.com/dezgeg/nixpkgs/commits/arm-bootstrap
since latest master has even more problems with cross-compiling anything.
(I will eventually push this stuff and make the ARM bootstraps build on hydra.)
I assume there's not much use for it during bootstrapping.
This fixes them as well, as curl was compiled against libnghttp2 but the
lib wasn't copied to the bootstrap tools.
The most complex problems were from dealing with switches reverted in
the meantime (gcc5, gmp6, ncurses6).
It's likely that darwin is (still) broken nontrivially.
Otherwise this fails on ARM:
/nix/store/jipqp9739n7wrjz40igbk85pqk13s0ad-binutils-2.23.1/bin/ld: /nix/store/92pdpqrqkdf8wjciq1cisvsp8kdz8p2i-gmp-5.1.3/lib/libgmp.a(mp_get_fns.o): relocation R_ARM_MOVW_ABS_NC against `__gmp_allocate_func' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/nix/store/92pdpqrqkdf8wjciq1cisvsp8kdz8p2i-gmp-5.1.3/lib/libgmp.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [libisl.la] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/nix-build-isl-0.11.1.drv-3/isl-0.11.1'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/nix-build-isl-0.11.1.drv-3/isl-0.11.1'
make: *** [all] Error 2
builder for ‘/nix/store/a8ghniifd8d8agqx0cqsh41daa08v11c-isl-0.11.1.drv’ failed with exit code 2
Several places in the tree associate the ARMv7 system
with the beaglebone platform. Change them to point to
armv7l-hf-multiplatform as it supports several boards (including the
beaglebone as well)
