This was first tagged as 2.15.0, 1½ years ago; plenty of time for
everyone to catch up.
By now, the warning is causing more confusion than that it is helpful,
because passing a `.drv` or `drvPath` has legitimate use cases.
In these trivial cases the final vector size (or lower bound on the size) is known,
so we can avoid some vector reallocations. This is not very important, but is just
good practice and general hygiene.
... and remove a few unused arguments.
This adds pkg-config to a two or three packages that don't use it,
but we shouldn't let that bother us. It's like our personal stdenv.
/tmp/ecstatic-euler-mAFGV7
% /home/joerg/git/nix/build/subprojects/nix/nix repl
Nix 2.25.0
Type :? for help.
after doing rm /tmp/ecstatic-euler-mAFGV7 this will result in:
nix-repl> :lf .
error: cannot determine current working directory: No such file or directory
Before it would make the repl crash
/tmp/clever-hermann-MCm7A9
% /home/joerg/git/nix/build/subprojects/nix/nix repl
Nix 2.25.0
Type :? for help.
nix-repl> :lf .
error: filesystem error: cannot get current path: No such file or directory
We're not replacing `Path` in exposed definitions in many cases, but
just adding alternatives. This will allow us to "top down" change `Path`
to `std::fileysystem::path`, and then we can remove the `Path`-using
utilities which will become unused.
Also add some test files which we forgot to include in the libutil unit
tests `meson.build`.
Co-Authored-By: siddhantCodes <siddhantk232@gmail.com>
This is because with the split packages of the Meson build, we simply
have no idea what directory the binaries will be installed in when we
build the library.
In the process of doing so, consolidate and make more sophisticated the
logic to cope with a few corner cases (e.g. `NIX_BIN_DIR` exists, but no
binaries are inside it).
Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>
* docs: unify documentation on search paths
- put all the information on search path semantics into `builtins.findFile`
- put all the information on determining the value of `builtins.nixPath` into the
`nix-path` setting
maybe `builtins.nixPath` is a better place for this, but those bits
can still be moved around now that it's all next to each other.
- link to the syntax page for lookup paths from all places that are
concerned with it
- add or clarify examples
- add a test verifying a claim from documentation
This also bans various sneaking of negative numbers from the language
into unsuspecting builtins as was exposed while auditing the
consequences of changing the Nix language integer type to a newtype.
It's unlikely that this change comprehensively ensures correctness when
passing integers out of the Nix language and we should probably add a
checked-narrowing function or something similar, but that's out of scope
for the immediate change.
During the development of this I found a few fun facts about the
language:
- You could overflow integers by converting from unsigned JSON values.
- You could overflow unsigned integers by converting negative numbers
into them when going into Nix config, into fetchTree, and into flake
inputs.
The flake inputs and Nix config cannot actually be tested properly
since they both ban thunks, however, we put in checks anyway because
it's possible these could somehow be used to do such shenanigans some
other way.
Note that Lix has banned Nix language integer overflows since the very
first public beta, but threw a SIGILL about them because we run with
-fsanitize=signed-overflow -fsanitize-undefined-trap-on-error in
production builds. Since the Nix language uses signed integers, overflow
was simply undefined behaviour, and since we defined that to trap, it
did.
Trapping on it was a bad UX, but we didn't even entirely notice
that we had done this at all until it was reported as a bug a couple of
months later (which is, to be fair, that flag working as intended), and
it's got enough production time that, aside from code that is IMHO buggy
(and which is, in any case, not in nixpkgs) such as
https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/issues/445, we don't think
anyone doing anything reasonable actually depends on wrapping overflow.
Even for weird use cases such as doing funny bit crimes, it doesn't make
sense IMO to have wrapping behaviour, since two's complement arithmetic
overflow behaviour is so *aggressively* not what you want for *any* kind
of mathematics/algorithms. The Nix language exists for package
management, a domain where bit crimes are already only dubiously in
scope to begin with, and it makes a lot more sense for that domain for
the integers to never lose precision, either by throwing errors if they
would, or by being arbitrary-precision.
Fixes: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/10968
Original-CL: https://gerrit.lix.systems/c/lix/+/1596
Change-Id: I51f253840c4af2ea5422b8a420aa5fafbf8fae75
The internal "completionCallback" and "listPossibleCallback" helpers
are used only when building with editline; hence, do not build then
when using readline, matching their usage in
"ReadlineLikeInteracter::init()".
... as well as match buildReadlineNoMarkdown.
Unfortunately it doesn't support long inputs or multiline inputs
for now.
This needs to make better use of the interacter interface.
Unfortunately these don't render correctly, because they go into the
markdown renderer, instead of the terminal.
```
nix-repl> :doc lib.version
Attribute '[35;1mversion[0m'
… defined at [35;1m/home/user/h/nixpkgs/lib/default.nix:73:40[0m
```
We could switch that to go direct to the terminal, but then we should
do the same for the primops, to get a consistent look.
Reverting for now.
This reverts commit 3413e0338cbee1c7734d5cb614b5325e51815cde.
