Firstly, this is now available on darwin where the default in llvm 19.
Secondly, this leads to very weird segfaults when building with newer nixpkgs for some reason.
(It's UB after all).
This appears when building with the following:
mesonComponentOverrides = finalAttrs: prevAttrs: {
mesonBuildType = "debugoptimized";
dontStrip = true;
doCheck = false;
separateDebugInfo = false;
preConfigure = (prevAttrs.preConfigure or "") + ''
case "$mesonBuildType" in
release|minsize|debugoptimized) appendToVar mesonFlags "-Db_lto=true" ;;
*) appendToVar mesonFlags "-Db_lto=false" ;;
esac
'';
};
And with the following nixpkgs input:
nix build ".#nix-cli" -L --override-input nixpkgs "https://releases.nixos.org/nixos/unstable/nixos-25.11pre870157.7df7ff7d8e00/nixexprs.tar.xz"
Stacktrace:
#0 0x00000000006afdc0 in ?? ()
#1 0x00007ffff71cebb6 in _Unwind_ForcedUnwind_Phase2 () from /nix/store/41ym1jm1b7j3rhglk82gwg9jml26z1km-gcc-14.3.0-lib/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
#2 0x00007ffff71cf5b5 in _Unwind_Resume () from /nix/store/41ym1jm1b7j3rhglk82gwg9jml26z1km-gcc-14.3.0-lib/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
#3 0x00007ffff7eac7d8 in std::basic_ios<char, std::char_traits<char> >::~basic_ios (this=<optimized out>, this=<optimized out>)
at /nix/store/82kmz7r96navanrc2fgckh2bamiqrgsw-gcc-14.3.0/include/c++/14.3.0/bits/basic_ios.h:286
#4 std::__cxx11::basic_ostringstream<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >::basic_ostringstream (this=<optimized out>, this=<optimized out>)
at /nix/store/82kmz7r96navanrc2fgckh2bamiqrgsw-gcc-14.3.0/include/c++/14.3.0/sstream:806
#5 nix::SimpleLogger::logEI (this=<optimized out>, ei=...) at ../logging.cc:121
#6 0x00007ffff7515794 in nix::Logger::logEI (this=0x675450, lvl=nix::lvlError, ei=...) at /nix/store/bkshji3nnxmrmgwa4n2kaxadajkwvn65-nix-util-2.32.0pre-dev/include/nix/util/logging.hh:144
#7 nix::handleExceptions (programName=..., fun=...) at ../shared.cc:336
#8 0x000000000047b76b in main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>) at /nix/store/82kmz7r96navanrc2fgckh2bamiqrgsw-gcc-14.3.0/include/c++/14.3.0/bits/new_allocator.h:88
(cherry picked from commit dce1a893d0)
This broke invocations like:
NIX_SSHOPTS='-p2222 -oUserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -oStrictHostKeyChecking=no' nix copy /nix/store/......-foo --to ssh-ng://root@localhost
In Nix 2.30.2, fakeSSH was enabled when the "thing I want to connect to"
was plain old "localhost". Previously, this check was written as:
, fakeSSH(host == "localhost")
Given the above invocation, `host` would have been `root@localhost`, and
thus `fakeSSH` would be `false` because `root@localhost` != `localhost`.
However, since 49ba06175e, `authority.host`
returned _just_ the host (`localhost`, no user) and erroneously enabled
`fakeSSH` in this case, causing `NIX_SSHOPTS` to be ignored (since,
when `fakeSSH` is `true`, `SSHMaster::startCommand` doesn't call
`addCommonSSHOpts`).
`authority.to_string()` accurately returns the expected `root@localhost`
format (given the above invocation), fixing this.
(cherry picked from commit 7ec1427fc3)
With the migration to /nix/var/nix/builds we now have failing builds
when the derivation name is too long.
This change removes the derivation name from the temporary build to have
a predictable prefix length:
Also see: https://github.com/NixOS/infra/pull/764
for context.
(cherry picked from commit 725a2f379f)
This allows the weird network or DNS server fallback mechanism inside
glibc to work, and prevents a "Resolving timed out after 5000
milliseconds" error. Read on for details.
The DNS request stuff (dns-hosts) in glibc uses this fallback procedure
to minimize network RTT in the ideal case while dealing with
ill-behaving networks and DNS servers gracefully (see resolv.conf(5)):
- Use sendmmsg() to send UDP DNS requests for IPv4 and IPv6 in parallel
- If that times out (meaning that none or only one of the responses have
been received), send the requests one by one, waiting for the response
before sending the next request ("single-request")
- If that still times out, try to use a different socket (hence
different address) for each request ("single-request-reopen")
The default timeout inside glibc is 5 seconds. Therefore, setting
connect-timeout, and therefore CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT to 5 seconds
prevents the single-request fallback, and setting it to even 10 seconds
prevents the single-request-reopen fallback as well.
The fallback decision is saved by glibc, but only thread-locally, and
libcurl starts a new thread for getaddrinfo() for each connection.
Therefore for every connection the fallback starts from sendmmsg() all
over again. And since these are considered to have timed out by libcurl,
even though getaddrinfo() might return a successful result, it is not
cached in libcurl.
While a user could tweak these with resolv.conf(5) options (e.g. using
networking.resolvconf.extraOptions in NixOS), and indeed that is
probably needed to avoid annoying delays, it still means that the
default connect-timeout of 5 is too low. Raise it to give fallback a
chance.
(cherry picked from commit 7295034362)
This reverts commit bdbc739d6e.
Such a change needs more thought put into it. By versioning
shared libraries we'd make a false impression that libraries
themselves are actually versioned and have some sort of stable
ABI, which is not the case.
This will be useful when C bindings become stable, but as long
as they are experimental it does not make sense to set SONAME.
Also this change should not have been backported, since it's
severely breaking.
(cherry picked from commit 0db2b8c8fe)
This implements a special back-compat shim to specifically allow
unbracketed IPv6 addresses in store references. This is something
that is relied upon in the wild and the old parsing logic accepted
both ways (brackets were optional). This patch restores this behavior.
As always, we didn't have any tests for this.
Addresses #13937.
(cherry picked from commit 7cc654afa9)
This is relied upon (specifically the `local` store) by existing
tooling [1] and we broke this in 3e7879e6df (which
was first released in 2.31).
To lessen the scope of the breakage we should not normalize "auto" references
and explicitly specified references like "local" or "daemon". It also makes
sense to canonicalize local://,daemon:// to be more compatible with prior
behavior.
[1]: 05e1b3cba2/lib/NOM/Builds.hs (L60-L64)
(cherry picked from commit 3513ab13dc)
On macOS, poll() is fundamentally broken for HUP detection. It loses event
subscriptions when EVFILT_READ fires without matching the requested events
in the pollfd. This causes daemon processes to linger after client disconnect.
This commit replaces poll() with kqueue on macOS, which is what poll()
uses internally but without the bugs. The kqueue implementation uses
EVFILT_READ which works for both sockets and pipes, avoiding EVFILT_SOCK
which only works for sockets.
On Linux and other platforms, we continue using poll() with the standard
POSIX behavior where POLLHUP is always reported regardless of requested events.
Based on work from the Lix project (https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix)
commit 69ba3c92db3ecca468bcd5ff7849fa8e8e0fc6c0
Fixes: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/13847
Related: https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/issues/729
Apple bugs: rdar://37537852 (poll), FB17447257 (poll)
Co-authored-by: Jade Lovelace <jadel@mercury.com>
(cherry picked from commit 1286d5db78)
This addresses several changes from toml11 4.0 bump in
nixpkgs [1].
1. Added more regression tests for timestamp formats.
Special attention needs to be paid to the precision
of the subsecond range for local-time. Prior versions select the closest
(upwards) multiple of 3 with a hard cap of 9 digits.
2. Normalize local datetime and offset datetime to always
use the uppercase separator `T`. This is actually the issue
surfaced in [2]. This canonicalization is basically a requirement
by (a certain reading) of rfc3339 section 5.6 [3].
3. If using toml11 >= 4.0 also keep the old behavior wrt
to the number of digits used for subsecond part of the local-time.
Newer versions cap it at 6 digits unconditionally.
[1]: https://www.github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/331649
[2]: https://www.github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/11441
[3]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3339
(cherry picked from commit dc769d72cb)
Current test suite doesn't cover the subsecond formatting at
all and toml11 is quite finicky with that. We should at the very
least test its behavior to avoid silent breakages on updates.
(cherry picked from commit 7ed0229d1a)
This would print erroneous and misleading diagnostics like:
> error (ignored): error: '--arg' and '--argstr' are incompatible with flakes
When run with --expr/--file. Since this installable is used to get the
bash package it doesn't make sense to check this.
(cherry picked from commit b6f98b52a4)
• Updated input 'nixpkgs':
'github:NixOS/nixpkgs/cd32a774ac52caaa03bcfc9e7591ac8c18617ced?narHash=sha256-VtMQg02B3kt1oejwwrGn50U9Xbjgzfbb5TV5Wtx8dKI%3D' (2025-08-17)
→ 'github:NixOS/nixpkgs/d98ce345cdab58477ca61855540999c86577d19d?narHash=sha256-O2CIn7HjZwEGqBrwu9EU76zlmA5dbmna7jL1XUmAId8%3D' (2025-08-26)
This update contains d1266642a8722f2a05e311fa151c1413d2b9653c, which
is necessary for the TOML timestamps to get tested via nixpkgsLibTests job.
(cherry picked from commit 625477a7df)