Before this change, if you were cross compiling Nix, then the nix-manual
subproject would never get built. In some situations, it makes sense to
not build the nix-manual subproject when cross compiling. For example,
if the build system is x86_64 and the host system is riscv64, then it
makes sense to not build the manual. Building the manual requires
executing certain build artifacts, and you can’t run x86_64 executables
on riscv64 systems.
That being said, there are some situations where it does make sense to
build the nix-manual subproject when cross compiling. For example, if
the build system is x86_64 and the host system is i686, then it doesn’t
make sense to not build the manual. You can run i686 executables on
x86_64 systems just fine.
This change makes it so that the nix-manual subproject will sometimes
get built when cross compiling. Specifically, the nix-manual subproject
will get built as long as the doc-gen option is enabled and the build
system is capable of running host binaries.
---
The main motivation behind this change is to fix this Nixpkgs issue [1].
Building pkgs.nixStatic counts as cross compiling Nix, and
pkgs.nixStatic is supposed to produce a man output. Building
pkgs.nixStatic currently fails because it isn’t actually producing a man
output. That issue will go away once this commit gets backported to Nix
2.28.x.
[1]: <https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/426410>
(cherry picked from commit 5e407e6abb)
CI on release branches should be stable, otherwise backporting
might become flaky and unreliable. Dogfooding only really makes
sense for CI on master branch, where failures are not as tedious
to work around.
I've missed this while reviewing 6db6190002.
I only built big endian ppc64, so that didn't occur to me.
From meson manual:
> Those porting from autotools should note that Meson does not add
> endianness to the name of the cpu_family. For example, autotools will
> call little endian PPC64 "ppc64le", Meson will not, you must also check
> the .endian() value of the machine for this information.
This code should handle that correctly.
(cherry picked from commit ebd311b7b7)
* It is tough to contribute to a project that doesn't use a formatter,
* It is extra hard to contribute to a project which has configured the formatter, but ignores it for some files
* Code formatting makes it harder to hide obscure / weird bugs by accident or on purpose,
Let's rip the bandaid off?
Note that PRs currently in flight should be able to be merged relatively easily by applying `clang-format` to their tip prior to merge.
Co-authored-by: Graham Christensen <graham@grahamc.com>
Previously, `nix help shell` failed with "Nix has no subcommand 'shell'" despite `nix shell --help`
working correctly. This happened because the `shell` command is actually an alias for `env shell`,
and the help system wasn't resolving aliases when looking up documentation.
This patch modifies the `showHelp` function to check for and resolve aliases before generating the
manpage name, ensuring that shorthand commands like `shell` get proper help documentation.
Closes: #13431
(cherry picked from commit d678b071d6)
Judging by the comment for `makeEmptySourceAccessor` the prefix has
to be empty:
> Return a source accessor that contains only an empty root directory.
Fixes#13295.
(cherry picked from commit fba1bb0c13)
c39cc00404 has added assertions for
all Value accesses and the following case has started failing with
an `unreachable`:
(/tmp/fun.nix):
```nix
{a}: a
```
```
$ nix eval --impure --expr 'import /tmp/fun.nix {a="a";b="b";}'
```
This would crash:
```
terminating due to unexpected unrecoverable internal error: Unexpected condition in getStorage at ../include/nix/expr/value.hh:844
```
This is not a regression, but rather surfaces an existing problem, which previously
was left undiagnosed. In the case of an import `fun` is the `import` primOp, so that read is invalid
and previously this resulted in an access into an inactive union member, which is UB.
The correct thing to use is `vCur`. Identical problem also affected the case of a missing argument.
Add previously failing test cases to the functional/lang test suite.
Fixes#13448.
(cherry picked from commit 6e78cc90d3)
Previous use of symlink_status() always translated into a stat call, leading
to huge performance penalties for by-name-overlay in nixpkgs. The comment
below references the possible caching, but that seemed to be erroneous, since
the correct way to make use of the caching API is by calling a bunch of `is_*`
functions [1]. For example, here's how libstdc++ does that [2], [3].
This translates to great nixpkgs eval performance improvements:
```
Benchmark 1: GC_INITIAL_HEAP_SIZE=4G result/bin/nix-instantiate ../nixpkgs -A hello --readonly-mode
Time (mean ± σ): 186.7 ms ± 6.7 ms [User: 121.3 ms, System: 64.9 ms]
Range (min … max): 179.4 ms … 201.6 ms 16 runs
Benchmark 2: GC_INITIAL_HEAP_SIZE=4G nix-instantiate ../nixpkgs -A hello --readonly-mode
Time (mean ± σ): 230.6 ms ± 5.0 ms [User: 126.9 ms, System: 103.1 ms]
Range (min … max): 225.1 ms … 241.4 ms 13 runs
```
[1]: https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2016/p0317r1.html
[2]: 8ea555b7b4/libstdc%2B%2B-v3/include/bits/fs_dir.h (L341-L348)
[3]: 8ea555b7b4/libstdc%2B%2B-v3/include/bits/fs_dir.h (L161-L163)
(cherry picked from commit 8708e9a526)
Ensure relative path inputs are relative to the parent node's _actual_
`outPath`, instead of the subtly different `sourceInfo.outPath`.
Additionally, non-flake inputs now also have a `sourceInfo` attribute.
This fixes the relationship between `self.outPath` and
`self.sourceInfo.outPath` in some edge cases.
Fixes#13164
(cherry picked from commit 46beb9af76)
Seen in https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix-src/actions/runs/15590867877/job/43909540271:
nix-functional-tests> grep: repl_output: No such file or directory
nix-functional-tests> +(repl.sh:174) cat repl_output
This is because there is a small possibility that the `nix repl` child
process hasn't created `repl_output` yet. So make sure it exists.
(cherry picked from commit 9eb46e9cc0)
Squashed commit of the following:
commit 04fff3a637d455cbb1d75937a235950e43008db9
Author: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
Date: Thu Jun 12 12:30:32 2025 +0200
Chown structured attr files safely
commit 5417ad445e414c649d0cfc71a05661c7bf8f3ef5
Author: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
Date: Thu Jun 12 12:14:04 2025 +0200
Replace 'bool sync' with an enum for clarity
And drop writeFileAndSync().
commit 7ae0141f328d8e8e1094be24665789c05f974ba6
Author: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
Date: Thu Jun 12 11:35:28 2025 +0200
Drop guessOrInventPathFromFD()
No need to do hacky stuff like that when we already know the original path.
commit 45b05098bd019da7c57cd4227a89bfd0fa65bb08
Author: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
Date: Thu Jun 12 11:15:58 2025 +0200
Tweak comment
commit 0af15b31209d1b7ec8addfae9a1a6b60d8f35848
Author: Raito Bezarius <raito@lix.systems>
Date: Thu Mar 27 12:22:26 2025 +0100
libstore: ensure that temporary directory is always 0o000 before deletion
In the case the deletion fails, we should ensure that the temporary
directory cannot be used for nefarious purposes.
Change-Id: I498a2dd0999a74195d13642f44a5de1e69d46120
Signed-off-by: Raito Bezarius <raito@lix.systems>
commit 2c20fa37b15cfa03ac6a1a6a47cdb2ed66c0827e
Author: Raito Bezarius <raito@lix.systems>
Date: Wed Mar 26 12:42:55 2025 +0100
libutil: ensure that `_deletePath` does NOT use absolute paths with dirfds
When calling `_deletePath` with a parent file descriptor, `openat` is
made effective by using relative paths to the directory file descriptor.
To avoid the problem, the signature is changed to resist misuse with an
assert in the prologue of the function.
Change-Id: I6b3fc766bad2afe54dc27d47d1df3873e188de96
Signed-off-by: Raito Bezarius <raito@lix.systems>
commit d3c370bbcae48bb825ce19fd0f73bb4eefd2c9ea
Author: Raito Bezarius <raito@lix.systems>
Date: Wed Mar 26 01:07:47 2025 +0100
libstore: ensure that `passAsFile` is created in the original temp dir
This ensures that `passAsFile` data is created inside the expected
temporary build directory by `openat()` from the parent directory file
descriptor.
This avoids a TOCTOU which is part of the attack chain of CVE-????.
Change-Id: Ie5273446c4a19403088d0389ae8e3f473af8879a
Signed-off-by: Raito Bezarius <raito@lix.systems>
commit 45d3598724f932d024ef6bc2ffb00c1bb90e6018
Author: Raito Bezarius <raito@lix.systems>
Date: Wed Mar 26 01:06:03 2025 +0100
libutil: writeFile variant for file descriptors
`writeFile` lose its `sync` boolean flag to make things simpler.
A new `writeFileAndSync` function is created and all call sites are
converted to it.
Change-Id: Ib871a5283a9c047db1e4fe48a241506e4aab9192
Signed-off-by: Raito Bezarius <raito@lix.systems>
commit 732bd9b98cabf4aaf95a01fd318923de303f9996
Author: Raito Bezarius <raito@lix.systems>
Date: Wed Mar 26 01:05:34 2025 +0100
libstore: chown to builder variant for file descriptors
We use it immediately for the build temporary directory.
Change-Id: I180193c63a2b98721f5fb8e542c4e39c099bb947
Signed-off-by: Raito Bezarius <raito@lix.systems>
commit 962c65f8dcd5570dd92c72370a862c7b38942e0d
Author: Raito Bezarius <raito@lix.systems>
Date: Wed Mar 26 01:04:59 2025 +0100
libstore: open build directory as a dirfd as well
We now keep around a proper AutoCloseFD around the temporary directory
which we plan to use for openat operations and avoiding the build
directory being swapped out while we are doing something else.
Change-Id: I18d387b0f123ebf2d20c6405cd47ebadc5505f2a
Signed-off-by: Raito Bezarius <raito@lix.systems>
commit c9b42462b75b5a37ee6564c2b53cff186c8323da
Author: Raito Bezarius <raito@lix.systems>
Date: Wed Mar 26 01:04:12 2025 +0100
libutil: guess or invent a path from file descriptors
This is useful for certain error recovery paths (no pun intended) that
does not thread through the original path name.
Change-Id: I2d800740cb4f9912e64c923120d3f977c58ccb7e
Signed-off-by: Raito Bezarius <raito@lix.systems>
Since the autotools-based build system has been removed
and meson already generates compile database there's no
need to have it in the devshell.
(cherry picked from commit 67535263a5)
