This regularly broke things – as can be seen from the number
of packages that were opting out of it – while providing only a
dubious and partial benefit to purity that other build systems did
not “enjoy”.
It has become associated with Darwin, but was actually introduced
in 2007 as part of 67d41efde1,
a work‐in‐progress commit for KDE 4 that introduced the CMake
setup hook. It has haunted us ever since, and will presumably become
even better at doing so now that it is a dead ghost.
Of course, it is possible and even likely that more impure paths will
leak into Darwin builds from third‐party CMake modules included
in packages. However, considering it already disregarded many of the
most common macOS system paths, it will be better overall to address
these in a targeted manner than dealing with the effects of this
brute‐force hook. In the long run, a good sandbox is going to be
the solution for reliable build reproducibility on the platform.
They are not doing anything right now. This is in preparation for their
complete removal from the tree.
Note: several changes that affect the derivation inputs (e.g. removal of
references to stub paths in build instructions) were left out. They will
be cleaned up the next iteration and will require special care.
Note: this PR is a result of a mix of ugly regex (not AST) based
automation and some manual labor. For reference, the regex automation
part was hacked in: https://github.com/booxter/nix-clean-apple_sdk
Signed-off-by: Ihar Hrachyshka <ihar.hrachyshka@gmail.com>
After final improvements to the official formatter implementation,
this commit now performs the first treewide reformat of Nix files using it.
This is part of the implementation of RFC 166.
Only "inactive" files are reformatted, meaning only files that
aren't being touched by any PR with activity in the past 2 months.
This is to avoid conflicts for PRs that might soon be merged.
Later we can do a full treewide reformat to get the rest,
which should not cause as many conflicts.
A CI check has already been running for some time to ensure that new and
already-formatted files are formatted, so the files being reformatted here
should also stay formatted.
This commit was automatically created and can be verified using
nix-build a08b3a4d19.tar.gz \
--argstr baseRev 78e9caf153
result/bin/apply-formatting $NIXPKGS_PATH
GNU sed's man page has this to say about "-i":
Because -i takes an optional argument, it should not be followed by
other short options:
[..]
sed -iE '...' FILE
This is equivalent to --in-place=E, creating FILEE as backup of FILE
This means all "-iX" did not have the intended effect X, so we can
instead remove them.
In preparation for the deprecation of `stdenv.isX`.
These shorthands are not conducive to cross-compilation because they
hide the platforms.
Darwin might get cross-compilation for which the continued usage of `stdenv.isDarwin` will get in the way
One example of why this is bad and especially affects compiler packages
https://www.github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/343059
There are too many files to go through manually but a treewide should
get users thinking when they see a `hostPlatform.isX` in a place where it
doesn't make sense.
```
fd --type f "\.nix" | xargs sd --fixed-strings "stdenv.is" "stdenv.hostPlatform.is"
fd --type f "\.nix" | xargs sd --fixed-strings "stdenv'.is" "stdenv'.hostPlatform.is"
fd --type f "\.nix" | xargs sd --fixed-strings "clangStdenv.is" "clangStdenv.hostPlatform.is"
fd --type f "\.nix" | xargs sd --fixed-strings "gccStdenv.is" "gccStdenv.hostPlatform.is"
fd --type f "\.nix" | xargs sd --fixed-strings "stdenvNoCC.is" "stdenvNoCC.hostPlatform.is"
fd --type f "\.nix" | xargs sd --fixed-strings "inherit (stdenv) is" "inherit (stdenv.hostPlatform) is"
fd --type f "\.nix" | xargs sd --fixed-strings "buildStdenv.is" "buildStdenv.hostPlatform.is"
fd --type f "\.nix" | xargs sd --fixed-strings "effectiveStdenv.is" "effectiveStdenv.hostPlatform.is"
fd --type f "\.nix" | xargs sd --fixed-strings "originalStdenv.is" "originalStdenv.hostPlatform.is"
```
