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Eelco Dolstra b01d62285c
Improve progress indicator 2017-05-16 16:09:57 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra c05d9ae7a5
Disallow outputHash being null or an empty string
Fixes #1384.
2017-05-15 18:47:13 +02:00
Shea Levy 3ecb09a40a builtins.exec: Make the argument just a list 2017-03-31 11:58:41 -04:00
Shea Levy 0bb8db257d Add exec primop behind allow-unsafe-native-code-during-evaluation.
Execute a given program with the (optional) given arguments as the
user running the evaluation, parsing stdout as an expression to be
evaluated.

There are many use cases for nix that would benefit from being able to
run arbitrary code during evaluation, including but not limited to:

* Automatic git fetching to get a sha256 from a git revision
* git rev-parse HEAD
* Automatic extraction of information from build specifications from
  other tools, particularly language-specific package managers like
  cabal or npm
* Secrets decryption (e.g. with nixops)
* Private repository fetching

Ideally, we would add this functionality in a more principled way to
nix, but in the mean time 'builtins.exec' can be used to get these
tasks done.

The primop is only available when the
'allow-unsafe-native-code-during-evaluation' nix option is true. That
flag also enables the 'importNative' primop, which is strictly more
powerful but less convenient (since it requires compiling a plugin
against the running version of nix).
2017-03-30 08:04:21 -04:00
Shea Levy 93f863be96 Add option to disable import-from-derivation completely, even if the drv is already realized 2017-03-08 08:46:12 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra 6de33a9c67
Add support for passing structured data to builders
Previously, all derivation attributes had to be coerced into strings
so that they could be passed via the environment. This is lossy
(e.g. lists get flattened, necessitating configureFlags
vs. configureFlagsArray, of which the latter cannot be specified as an
attribute), doesn't support attribute sets at all, and has size
limitations (necessitating hacks like passAsFile).

This patch adds a new mode for passing attributes to builders, namely
encoded as a JSON file ".attrs.json" in the current directory of the
builder. This mode is activated via the special attribute

  __structuredAttrs = true;

(The idea is that one day we can set this in stdenv.mkDerivation.)

For example,

  stdenv.mkDerivation {
    __structuredAttrs = true;
    name = "foo";
    buildInputs = [ pkgs.hello pkgs.cowsay ];
    doCheck = true;
    hardening.format = false;
  }

results in a ".attrs.json" file containing (sans the indentation):

  {
    "buildInputs": [],
    "builder": "/nix/store/ygl61ycpr2vjqrx775l1r2mw1g2rb754-bash-4.3-p48/bin/bash",
    "configureFlags": [
      "--with-foo",
      "--with-bar=1 2"
    ],
    "doCheck": true,
    "hardening": {
      "format": false
    },
    "name": "foo",
    "nativeBuildInputs": [
      "/nix/store/10h6li26i7g6z3mdpvra09yyf10mmzdr-hello-2.10",
      "/nix/store/4jnvjin0r6wp6cv1hdm5jbkx3vinlcvk-cowsay-3.03"
    ],
    "propagatedBuildInputs": [],
    "propagatedNativeBuildInputs": [],
    "stdenv": "/nix/store/f3hw3p8armnzy6xhd4h8s7anfjrs15n2-stdenv",
    "system": "x86_64-linux"
  }

"passAsFile" is ignored in this mode because it's not needed - large
strings are included directly in the JSON representation.

It is up to the builder to do something with the JSON
representation. For example, in bash-based builders, lists/attrsets of
string values could be mapped to bash (associative) arrays.
2017-01-26 20:40:33 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 54801ed6ad
Bindings: Add a method for iterating in lexicographically sorted order 2017-01-26 20:40:33 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 4e6a2fbc56
Revert "Propagate path context via builtins.readFile"
This reverts commit f7f0116dd7.

Issue #1174.
2017-01-24 15:31:54 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra fa738e50bc
Revert "builtins.readFile: Put the references of the file, not those needed to realize the file, into the context"
Reverting commit 451c223dee for now
because it breaks http://hydra.nixos.org/build/46805136, not clear
why.
2017-01-24 15:29:46 +01:00
Shea Levy 451c223dee builtins.readFile: Put the references of the file, not those needed to realize the file, into the context 2017-01-10 12:22:22 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra 215b70f51e
Revert "Get rid of unicode quotes (#1140)"
This reverts commit f78126bfd6. There
really is no need for such a massive change...
2016-11-26 00:38:01 +01:00
Guillaume Maudoux f78126bfd6 Get rid of unicode quotes (#1140) 2016-11-25 15:48:27 +01:00
Tuomas Tynkkynen f0fc3dd88b Fix SIGFPE from integer overflow during division
On some architectures (like x86_64 or i686, but not ARM for example)
overflow during integer division causes a crash due to SIGFPE.
Reproduces on a 64-bit system with:

    nix-instantiate --eval -E '(-9223372036854775807 - 1) / -1'

The only way this can happen is when the smallest possible integer is
divided by -1, so just special-case that.
2016-10-26 18:41:59 +03:00
Alexander Ried c935e8eeaf fixup! replace own regex class with std::regex 2016-10-19 16:03:53 +02:00
Alexander Ried b05b98df75 replace own regex class with std::regex 2016-10-18 20:22:25 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra c55bf085eb printMsg(lvlError, ...) -> printError(...) etc. 2016-09-21 16:54:53 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 90ad02bf62 Enable HTTP/2 support
The binary cache store can now use HTTP/2 to do lookups. This is much
more efficient than HTTP/1.1 due to multiplexing: we can issue many
requests in parallel over a single TCP connection. Thus it's no longer
necessary to use a bunch of concurrent TCP connections (25 by
default).

For example, downloading 802 .narinfo files from
https://cache.nixos.org/, using a single TCP connection, takes 11.8s
with HTTP/1.1, but only 0.61s with HTTP/2.

This did require a fairly substantial rewrite of the Downloader class
to use the curl multi interface, because otherwise curl wouldn't be
able to do multiplexing for us. As a bonus, we get connection reuse
even with HTTP/1.1. All downloads are now handled by a single worker
thread. Clients call Downloader::enqueueDownload() to tell the worker
thread to start the download, getting a std::future to the result.
2016-09-14 16:36:02 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra c42d1acfeb forceBool(): Show position info 2016-08-29 19:37:19 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 26d92017d3 Add builtin function "partition"
The implementation of "partition" in Nixpkgs is O(n^2) (because of the
use of ++), and for some reason was causing stack overflows in
multi-threaded evaluation (not sure why).

This reduces "nix-env -qa --drv-path" runtime by 0.197s and memory
usage by 298 MiB (in non-Boehm mode).
2016-08-29 19:36:54 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 22d6e31fc6 Add a mechanism for derivation attributes to reference the derivation's outputs
For example, you can now say:

  configureFlags = "--prefix=${placeholder "out"} --includedir=${placeholder "dev"}";

The strings returned by the ‘placeholder’ builtin are replaced at
build time by the actual store paths corresponding to the specified
outputs.

Previously, you had to work around the inability to self-reference by doing stuff like:

  preConfigure = ''
    configureFlags+=" --prefix $out --includedir=$dev"
  '';

or rely on ad-hoc variable interpolation semantics in Autoconf or Make
(e.g. --prefix=\$(out)), which doesn't always work.
2016-08-17 17:19:32 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra ac841a4679 Merge pull request #1031 from abbradar/replacestrings-context
Allow contexted strings in replaceStrings
2016-08-16 12:47:20 +02:00
Nikolay Amiantov f1b8dd43be Allow contexted strings in replaceStrings 2016-08-16 13:20:56 +03:00
Shea Levy d52d391164 builtins.fetch{url,tarball}: Allow name attribute 2016-08-15 07:37:11 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra ee22a91ab8 makeFixedOutputPath(): Drop superfluous HashType argument 2016-07-26 21:25:52 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 06bbfb6004 builtins.{fetchurl,fetchTarball}: Support a sha256 attribute
Also, allow builtins.{fetchurl,fetchTarball} in restricted mode if a
hash is specified.
2016-07-26 21:16:52 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 7850d3d279 Make the store directory a member variable of Store 2016-06-01 16:24:17 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 6c75cf69c3 Cleanup: Remove singleton() 2016-05-04 16:16:53 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 41633f9f73 Improved logging abstraction
This also gets rid of --log-type, since the nested log type isn't
useful in a multi-threaded situation, and nobody cares about the
"pretty" log type.
2016-04-25 19:18:45 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 363f37d084 Make the search path lazier with non-fatal errors
Thus, -I / $NIX_PATH entries are now downloaded only when they are
needed for evaluation. An error to download an entry is a non-fatal
warning (just like non-existant paths).

This does change the semantics of builtins.nixPath, which now returns
the original, rather than resulting path. E.g., before we had

  [ { path = "/nix/store/hgm3yxf1lrrwa3z14zpqaj5p9vs0qklk-nixexprs.tar.xz"; prefix = "nixpkgs"; } ... ]

but now

  [ { path = "https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-16.03/nixexprs.tar.xz"; prefix = "nixpkgs"; } ... ]

Fixes #792.
2016-04-14 15:32:24 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 12b257f045 Make primop registration pluggable
This way we don't have to put all primops in one giant file.
2016-04-14 12:50:01 +02:00
Nikolay Amiantov f7f0116dd7 Propagate path context via builtins.readFile 2016-03-04 14:04:51 +03:00
Eelco Dolstra e9c50064b5 Add an HTTP binary cache store
Allowing stuff like

  NIX_REMOTE=https://cache.nixos.org nix-store -qR /nix/store/x1p1gl3a4kkz5ci0nfbayjqlqmczp1kq-geeqie-1.1

or

  NIX_REMOTE=https://cache.nixos.org nix-store --export /nix/store/x1p1gl3a4kkz5ci0nfbayjqlqmczp1kq-geeqie-1.1 | nix-store --import
2016-02-29 18:15:20 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra b3e8d72770 Merge pull request #762 from ctheune/ctheune-floats
Implement floats
2016-02-12 12:49:59 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra c10c61449f Eliminate the "store" global variable
Also, move a few free-standing functions into StoreAPI and Derivation.

Also, introduce a non-nullable smart pointer, ref<T>, which is just a
wrapper around std::shared_ptr ensuring that the pointer is never
null. (For reference-counted values, this is better than passing a
"T&", because the latter doesn't maintain the refcount. Usually, the
caller will have a shared_ptr keeping the value alive, but that's not
always the case, e.g., when passing a reference to a std::thread via
std::bind.)
2016-02-04 14:28:26 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 9aac1861f7 Fix some signedness warnings 2016-01-07 14:37:39 +01:00
Fabian Schmitthenner 39d1da7b51 Better error message
Also show types when nix cannot compare values of different types.
This is also more consistent since types are already shown when comparing values of the same not comparable type.
2016-01-05 14:13:54 +01:00
Vladimír Čunát 29c0199d5c manual: document builtins.functionArgs
The text is just a conversion of comment from src/libexpr/primops.cc
2016-01-05 13:29:17 +01:00
Christian Theune 14ebde5289 First hit at providing support for floats in the language. 2016-01-05 00:40:40 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 76cc8e97a2 Add sort primop 2015-07-28 18:39:39 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 50807f3dd5 Add primop genList
This can be used to implement functions like ‘imap’ (or for that
matter, ‘map’) without the quadratic complexity incurred by calling
‘++’ repeatedly.
2015-07-28 17:28:35 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra d6d5885c15 Add replaceStrings primop
This is a generalisation of replaceChars in Nixpkgs.
2015-07-24 15:32:24 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 2e8fd4c5cd Add concatStringsSep as a primop
This fixes the quadratic behaviour of concatStrings/concatStringsSep
in Nixpkgs.
2015-07-24 02:38:09 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra b83801f8b3 Optimize small lists
The value pointers of lists with 1 or 2 elements are now stored in the
list value itself. In particular, this makes the "concatMap (x: if
cond then [(f x)] else [])" idiom cheaper.
2015-07-23 22:05:09 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 14be783676 Add primops all and any
These are used thousands of times during NixOS evaluation, so it's
useful to speed them up.
2015-07-23 19:23:11 +02:00
Shea Levy 39e27a04b8 Importing derivations: Add name attribute to make a valid drv 2015-07-23 17:04:07 +02:00
Shea Levy 1ed55234d9 Allow derivations-as-srcs in the context of builtins.toFile files 2015-07-23 17:03:47 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 61af14a921 Add foldl' primop 2015-07-23 17:03:02 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 6bd2c7bb38 OCD: foreach -> C++11 ranged for 2015-07-17 20:13:56 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra c1323b53e3 Fix fetchurl/fetchTarball 2015-06-01 15:08:09 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 1c88e100e7 readFile: Check against nul bytes 2015-06-01 15:07:42 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 9451ef3731 Allow URLs in the Nix search path
E.g. to install "hello" from the latest Nixpkgs:

  $ nix-build '<nixpkgs>' -A hello -I nixpkgs=https://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable/nixexprs.tar.xz

Or to install a specific version of NixOS:

  $ nixos-rebuild switch -I nixpkgs=63def04891.tar.gz
2015-05-05 17:09:42 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 4ed2187377 Use cached result if there is a network error 2015-04-09 12:49:13 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 1fc905ad4c Move curl stuff into a separate file 2015-04-09 12:12:50 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra c1f04fae35 Implement a TTL on cached fetchurl/fetchTarball results
This is because we don't want to do HTTP requests on every evaluation,
even though we can prevent a full redownload via the cached ETag. The
default is one hour.
2015-04-09 11:55:36 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 60340ce3e2 Implement caching of fetchurl/fetchTarball results
ETags are used to prevent redownloading unchanged files.
2015-04-09 11:42:04 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 000b5a000f Add fetchTarball builtin
This function downloads and unpacks the given URL at evaluation
time. This is primarily intended to make it easier to deal with Nix
expressions that have external dependencies. For instance, to fetch
Nixpkgs 14.12:

  with import (fetchTarball https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels/archive/nixos-14.12.tar.gz) {};

Or to fetch a specific revision:

  with import (fetchTarball 2766a4b44e.tar.gz) {};

This patch also adds a ‘fetchurl’ builtin that downloads but doesn't
unpack its argument. Not sure if it's useful though.
2015-03-25 17:29:09 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 7ea6ecf855 addToStore(): Take explicit name argument 2015-03-25 17:06:12 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 6f0c6e20e0 Don't rely on __noChroot for corepkgs
This doesn't work anymore if the "strict" chroot mode is
enabled. Instead, add Nix's store path as a dependency. This ensures
that its closure is present in the chroot.
2015-03-24 11:15:45 +01:00
Daniel Hahler e659978ced Fix typos: s/the the/the/ 2015-03-06 16:43:22 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 15d2d3c34e Add restricted evaluation mode
If ‘--option restrict-eval true’ is given, the evaluator will throw an
exception if an attempt is made to access any file outside of the Nix
search path. This is primarily intended for Hydra, where we don't want
people doing ‘builtins.readFile ~/.ssh/id_dsa’ or stuff like that.
2015-02-23 15:54:31 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 2be7f79fd4 Remove tab 2015-02-05 17:21:30 +01:00
Shea Levy 73bf32ce94 Merge remote-tracking branch 'shlevy/baseNameOf-no-copy'
baseNameOf: Don't copy paths to the store first
2015-01-29 03:29:09 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra 2a3b1df423 Fix builtins.readDir on XFS
The DT_UNKNOWN fallback code was getting the type of the wrong path,
causing readDir to report "directory" as the type of every file.

Reported by deepfire on IRC.
2015-01-09 14:56:25 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 153a943de7 Show position info for failing <...> lookups 2015-01-07 13:43:55 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 8aedaf111e Remove canary stuff 2014-12-12 10:59:50 +01:00
Shea Levy 50c3352811 builtins.readFile: realise context associated with the path 2014-12-10 12:26:53 +01:00
Shea Levy 320659b0cd Allow external code using libnixexpr to add types
Code that links to libnixexpr (e.g. plugins loaded with importNative, or
nix-exec) may want to provide custom value types and operations on
values of those types. For example, nix-exec is currently using sets
where a custom IO value type would be more appropriate. This commit
provides a generic hook for such types in the form of tExternal and the
ExternalBase virtual class, which contains all functions necessary for
libnixexpr's type-polymorphic functions (e.g. `showType`) to be
implemented.
2014-12-02 10:27:04 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra 976df480c9 Add a primop for regular expression pattern matching
The function ‘builtins.match’ takes a POSIX extended regular
expression and an arbitrary string. It returns ‘null’ if the string
does not match the regular expression. Otherwise, it returns a list
containing substring matches corresponding to parenthesis groups in
the regex. The regex must match the entire string (i.e. there is an
implied "^<pat>$" around the regex).  For example:

  match "foo" "foobar" => null
  match "foo" "foo" => []
  match "f(o+)(.*)" "foooobar" => ["oooo" "bar"]
  match "(.*/)?([^/]*)" "/dir/file.nix" => ["/dir/" "file.nix"]
  match "(.*/)?([^/]*)" "file.nix" => [null "file.nix"]

The following example finds all regular files with extension .nix or
.patch underneath the current directory:

  let

    findFiles = pat: dir: concatLists (mapAttrsToList (name: type:
      if type == "directory" then
        findFiles pat (dir + "/" + name)
      else if type == "regular" && match pat name != null then
        [(dir + "/" + name)]
      else []) (readDir dir));

  in findFiles ".*\\.(nix|patch)" (toString ./.)
2014-11-25 11:47:06 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 4e340a983f forceString(): Accept pos argument 2014-11-25 10:23:36 +01:00
Shea Levy b0c5c2ac34 import derivation: cleanup
Before this there was a bug where a `find` was being called on a
not-yet-sorted set. The code was just a mess before anyway, so I cleaned
it up while fixing it.
2014-11-20 22:48:12 -05:00
Shea Levy 2719627bbe realiseContext: Handle all context types
Avoids an assertion
2014-11-15 21:43:51 -05:00
Shea Levy 0ee1ca628a baseNameOf: Don't copy paths to the store first 2014-10-18 20:28:28 -04:00
Shea Levy d16e3c7f09 Export realiseContext in libnixexpr
Useful for importNative plugins
2014-10-17 22:15:09 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra c3f0a489f9 Add primop ‘catAttrs’ 2014-10-04 18:15:03 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra d4fcbe1687 Add primop ‘attrValues’ 2014-10-04 16:41:24 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 58d8a213b0 Tweak 2014-10-04 11:27:23 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 3f8576a6ab Remove some duplicate code 2014-10-03 22:37:51 +02:00
Shea Levy c08c802bf3 Add readDir primop 2014-10-03 22:32:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra ebb1dbb3e1 Add missing static 2014-09-23 15:08:27 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 53b044c2f6 Don't evaluate inside a "throw"
Workaround for
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41174. This caused
hydra-eval-jobs to ignore SIGINT.
2014-09-22 19:18:05 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 0cd6596b0e Add ‘deepSeq’ primop
Note that unlike ‘lib.deepSeq’ in Nixpkgs, this handles cycles.
2014-09-22 16:05:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra a54c263402 Add ‘seq’ primop 2014-09-22 16:05:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra eff120d1b9 Add a function ‘valueSize’
It returns the size of value, including all other values and
environments reachable from it. It is intended for debugging memory
consumption issues.
2014-09-22 16:05:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 2d6cd8aafd attrNames: Don't allocate duplicates of the symbols 2014-09-19 18:11:46 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra ea525a261f Fix off-by-one 2014-09-19 18:08:14 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 6e5b02bee4 Add some instrumentation for debugging GC leaks 2014-09-17 15:19:07 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 11849a320e Use proper quotes everywhere 2014-08-20 18:03:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 3d221a7bb1 Rename nixPath to __nixPath
The name ‘nixPath’ breaks existing code.
2014-07-30 11:28:39 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 0e5d0c1543 Fix compilation error on some versions of GCC
src/libexpr/primops.cc:42:8: error: looser throw specifier for 'virtual nix::InvalidPathError::~InvalidPathError()'
src/libexpr/nixexpr.hh:12:1: error:   overriding 'virtual nix::EvalError::~EvalError() noexcept (true)'

http://hydra.nixos.org/build/12385750
2014-07-09 12:14:40 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra beaf3e90af Add builtin function ‘fromJSON’
Fixes #294.
2014-07-04 13:34:15 +02:00
Shea Levy d62f46e500 Only add the importNative primop if the allow-arbitrary-code-during-evaluation option is true (default false) 2014-06-24 10:50:03 -04:00
Shea Levy 5cd022d6c0 Add importNative primop
This can be used to import a dynamic shared object and return an
arbitrary value, including new primops. This can be used both to test
new primops without having to recompile nix every time, and to build
specialized primops that probably don't belong upstream (e.g. a function
that calls out to gpg to decrypt a nixops secret as-needed).

The imported function should initialize the Value & as needed. A single
import can define multiple values by creating an attrset or list, of
course.

An example initialization function might look like:

extern "C" void initialize(nix::EvalState & state, nix::Value & v)
{
    v.type = nix::tPrimOp;
    v.primOp = NEW nix::PrimOp(myFun, 1, state.symbols.create("myFun"));
}

Then `builtins.importNative ./example.so "initialize"` will evaluate to
the primop defined in the myFun function.
2014-06-17 12:08:01 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 0960d674d4 Drop ImportError and FindError
We're not catching these anywhere.
2014-06-12 13:00:54 +02:00
Shea Levy 718f20da6d findFile: Realise the context of the path attributes 2014-06-12 12:57:14 +02:00
Shea Levy a8fb575c98 Share code between scopedImport and import
In addition to reducing duplication, this fixes both import from
derivation and import of derivation for scopedImport
2014-06-12 12:52:39 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra ee7fe64c0a == operator: Ignore string context
There really is no case I can think of where taking the context into
account is useful. Mostly it's just very inconvenient.
2014-06-10 14:02:56 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra becc2b0167 Sort nixPath attributes 2014-05-29 19:02:14 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 62a6eeb1f3 Make the Nix search path declarative
Nix search path lookups like <nixpkgs> are now desugared to ‘findFile
nixPath <nixpkgs>’, where ‘findFile’ is a new primop. Thus you can
override the search path simply by saying

  let
    nixPath = [ { prefix = "nixpkgs"; path = "/my-nixpkgs"; } ];
  in ... <nixpkgs> ...

In conjunction with ‘scopedImport’ (commit
c273c15cb1), the Nix search path can be
propagated across imports, e.g.

  let

    overrides = {
      nixPath = [ ... ] ++ builtins.nixPath;
      import = fn: scopedImport overrides fn;
      scopedImport = attrs: fn: scopedImport (overrides // attrs) fn;
      builtins = builtins // overrides;
    };

  in scopedImport overrides ./nixos
2014-05-26 17:02:22 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra a8edf185a9 Add constant ‘nixPath’
It contains the Nix expression search path as a list of { prefix, path
} sets, e.g.

  [ { path = "/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos"; prefix = ""; }
    { path = "/etc/nixos/configuration.nix"; prefix = "nixos-config"; }
    { path = "/home/eelco/Dev/nix/inst/share/nix/corepkgs"; prefix = "nix"; }
  ]
2014-05-26 14:55:47 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra c273c15cb1 Add primop ‘scopedImport’
‘scopedImport’ works like ‘import’, except that it takes a set of
attributes to be added to the lexical scope of the expression,
essentially extending or overriding the builtin variables.  For
instance, the expression

  scopedImport { x = 1; } ./foo.nix

where foo.nix contains ‘x’, will evaluate to 1.

This has a few applications:

* It allows getting rid of function argument specifications in package
  expressions. For instance, a package expression like:

    { stdenv, fetchurl, libfoo }:

    stdenv.mkDerivation { ... buildInputs = [ libfoo ]; }

  can now we written as just

    stdenv.mkDerivation { ... buildInputs = [ libfoo ]; }

  and imported in all-packages.nix as:

    bar = scopedImport pkgs ./bar.nix;

  So whereas we once had dependencies listed in three places
  (buildInputs, the function, and the call site), they now only need
  to appear in one place.

* It allows overriding builtin functions. For instance, to trace all
  calls to ‘map’:

  let
    overrides = {
      map = f: xs: builtins.trace "map called!" (map f xs);

      # Ensure that our override gets propagated by calls to
      # import/scopedImport.
      import = fn: scopedImport overrides fn;

      scopedImport = attrs: fn: scopedImport (overrides // attrs) fn;

      # Also update ‘builtins’.
      builtins = builtins // overrides;
    };
  in scopedImport overrides ./bla.nix

* Similarly, it allows extending the set of builtin functions. For
  instance, during Nixpkgs/NixOS evaluation, the Nixpkgs library
  functions could be added to the default scope.

There is a downside: calls to scopedImport are not memoized, unlike
import. So importing a file multiple times leads to multiple parsings
/ evaluations. It would be possible to construct the AST only once,
but that would require careful handling of variables/environments.
2014-05-26 14:26:29 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra f0fdbd0897 Shut up some signedness warnings 2014-05-26 12:34:15 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra dfa2f77d2e If a .drv cannot be parsed, show its path
Otherwise you just get ‘expected string `Derive(['’ which isn't very helpful.
2014-04-08 19:24:29 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 4c5faad994 Show position info in Boolean operations 2014-04-04 22:43:52 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra bd9b1d97b4 Show position info in string concatenation / addition errors 2014-04-04 22:19:33 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra a5fe730940 forceString: Show position info 2014-04-04 21:14:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 27b44b8cf7 forceAttrs: Show position info 2014-04-04 19:11:40 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 96b695ccab forceList: Show position info 2014-04-04 19:05:36 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra b62d36963c forceInt: Show position info 2014-04-04 18:59:29 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra c28de6d96e Pass position information to primop calls
For example:

  error: `tail' called on an empty list, at
    /home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/applications/misc/hello/ex-2/default.nix:13:7
2014-04-04 18:59:29 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra b72c8d2e5b Include position info in function application
This allows error messages like:

  error: the anonymous function at `/etc/nixos/configuration.nix:1:1'
    called without required argument `foo', at
    `/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos/nixpkgs/lib/modules.nix:77:59'
2014-04-04 18:59:29 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 81628a6ccc Merge branch 'master' into make
Conflicts:
	src/libexpr/eval.cc
2014-01-21 15:30:01 +01:00
Shea Levy e36229d27f Bump language version for new storePath feature
This will allow e.g. channel expressions to use builtins.storePath IFF
it is safe to do so without knowing if the path is valid yet.

Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
2013-12-10 15:07:04 +01:00
Shea Levy 22d665019a builtins.storePath: Try to substitute the path if it is not yet valid
Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
2013-12-10 15:07:04 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 611868a909 Implement basic ‘make install’ 2013-11-23 17:04:27 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 990126cde0 Shorter error message 2013-11-19 14:09:14 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 77c13cdf56 Add a toJSON primop 2013-11-19 00:04:11 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 285df765b9 Add a primop unsafeGetAttrPos to return the position of an attribute 2013-11-18 22:22:35 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 8d6418d46e Fix building without a garbage collector
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/6695350
2013-10-28 22:51:12 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra dec2f19502 Fix a segfault in genericClosure
It kept temporary data in STL containers that were not scanned by
Boehm GC, so Nix programs using genericClosure could randomly crash if
the garbage collector kicked in at a bad time.

Also make it a bit more efficient by copying points to values rather
than values.
2013-10-28 18:52:26 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra ea6bf0c21f Slightly optimize listToAttrs 2013-10-28 07:34:44 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 5bc41d78ff Rename "attribute sets" to "sets"
We don't have any other kind of sets so calling them attribute sets is
unnecessarily verbose.
2013-10-24 16:41:04 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 05d02f798f Add a typeOf primop
We already have some primops for determining the type of a value, such
as isString, but they're incomplete: for instance, there is no isPath.
Rather than adding more isBla functions, the generic typeOf function
returns a string representing the type of the argument (e.g. "int").
2013-10-24 02:49:13 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 792fd51f41 Fold two stack trace messages in derivations
Combined with the previous changes, stack traces involving derivations
are now much less verbose, since something like

  while evaluating the builtin function `getAttr':
  while evaluating the builtin function `derivationStrict':
  while instantiating the derivation named `gtk+-2.24.20' at `/home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/libraries/gtk+/2.x.nix:11:3':
  while evaluating the derivation attribute `propagatedNativeBuildInputs' at `/home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/stdenv/generic/default.nix:78:17':
  while evaluating the attribute `outPath' at `/nix/store/212ngf4ph63mp6p1np2bapkfikpakfv7-nix-1.6/share/nix/corepkgs/derivation.nix:18:9':
  ...

now reads

  while evaluating the attribute `propagatedNativeBuildInputs' of the derivation `gtk+-2.24.20' at `/home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/libraries/gtk+/2.x.nix:11:3':
  ...
2013-10-17 11:57:25 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra f440558acc Don't show <nix/derivation.nix> in stack traces
Messages like

  while evaluating the attribute `outPath' at `/nix/store/212ngf4ph63mp6p1np2bapkfikpakfv7-nix-1.6/share/nix/corepkgs/derivation.nix:18:9':

are redundant, because Nix already shows that it's evaluating a derivation:

  while instantiating the derivation named `firefox-24.0' at `/home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/firefox/default.nix:131:5':
  while evaluating the derivation attribute `nativeBuildInputs' at `/home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/stdenv/generic/default.nix:76:17':
2013-10-17 11:47:38 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 6f809194d7 Get rid of the parse tree cache
Since we already cache files in normal form (fileEvalCache), caching
parse trees is redundant.

Note that getting rid of this cache doesn't actually save much memory
at the moment, because parse trees are currently not freed / GC'ed.
2013-09-03 13:01:42 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 33972629d7 Fix whitespace 2013-09-02 16:29:15 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra d308aeaf53 Store Nix integers as longs
So on 64-bit systems, integers are now 64-bit.

Fixes #158.
2013-08-19 12:35:03 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 8e74c0bfd1 Let the ordering operators also work on strings
E.g. ‘"foo" < "bar"’ now works.
2013-08-02 18:53:02 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra bdd4646338 Revert "Prevent config.h from being clobbered"
This reverts commit 28bba8c44f.
2013-03-08 01:24:59 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 28bba8c44f Prevent config.h from being clobbered 2013-03-07 23:55:55 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 52172607cf Rename "hash" to "hashString" and handle SHA-1 2013-02-08 19:36:23 +01:00
Marc Weber 01a5ea9914 experimental/hash
adding primop function calculating hash of a string

Signed-off-by: Marc Weber <marco-oweber@gmx.de>
2013-02-08 19:26:34 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 3100b29fc5 Tiny optimisation in the filter primop 2012-12-04 17:22:20 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 6c98e6a5de Optionally ignore null-valued derivation attributes
This allows adding attributes like

  attr = if stdenv.system == "bla" then something else null;

without changing the resulting derivation on non-<bla> platforms.

We once considered adding a special "ignore" value for this purpose,
but using null seems more elegant.
2012-11-27 15:01:32 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 8b8ee53bc7 Add builtin constants ‘langVersion’ and ‘nixVersion’
The integer constant ‘langVersion’ denotes the current language
version.  It gets increased every time a language feature is
added/changed/removed.  It's currently 1.

The string constant ‘nixVersion’ contains the current Nix version,
e.g. "1.2pre2980_9de6bc5".
2012-11-27 13:29:55 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 17dc306aa3 Revert "prim_toPath: Actually make the string a path"
This reverts commit 2980d1fba9.  It
causes a regression in NixOS evaluation:

string `/nix/store/ya3s5gmj3b28170fpbjhgsk8wzymkpa1-pommed-1.39/etc/pommed.conf' cannot refer to other paths
2012-11-15 23:04:34 +01:00
Shea Levy 2980d1fba9 prim_toPath: Actually make the string a path 2012-10-23 16:39:35 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 0a7084567f Add a ‘--repair’ flag to nix-instantiate
This allows repairing corrupted derivations and other source files.
2012-10-03 15:09:18 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 76e88871b2 Templatise tokenizeString() 2012-09-19 15:43:23 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra e94806d030 Merge branch 'master' into no-manifests 2012-08-27 11:09:07 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 9c2d63084b Add a primop ‘elemAt’ to get an element from a list 2012-08-13 13:46:42 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 198d0338be Add a primop ‘concatLists’
This can serve as a generic efficient list builder.  For instance, the
function ‘catAttrs’ in Nixpkgs can be rewritten from

  attr: l: fold (s: l: if hasAttr attr s then [(getAttr attr s)] ++ l else l) [] l

to

  attr: l: builtins.concatLists (map (s: if hasAttr attr s then [(getAttr attr s)] else []) l)

Statistics before:

  time elapsed: 1.08683
  size of a value: 24
  environments allocated: 1384376 (35809568 bytes)
  list elements: 6946783 (55574264 bytes)
  list concatenations: 37434
  values allocated: 1760440 (42250560 bytes)
  attribute sets allocated: 392040
  right-biased unions: 186334
  values copied in right-biased unions: 591137
  symbols in symbol table: 18273
  number of thunks: 1297673
  number of thunks avoided: 1380759
  number of attr lookups: 430802
  number of primop calls: 628912
  number of function calls: 1333544

Statistics after (including new catAttrs):

  time elapsed: 0.959854
  size of a value: 24
  environments allocated: 1010198 (26829296 bytes)
  list elements: 1984878 (15879024 bytes)
  list concatenations: 30488
  values allocated: 1589760 (38154240 bytes)
  attribute sets allocated: 392040
  right-biased unions: 186334
  values copied in right-biased unions: 591137
  symbols in symbol table: 18274
  number of thunks: 1040925
  number of thunks avoided: 1038428
  number of attr lookups: 438419
  number of primop calls: 474844
  number of function calls: 959366
2012-08-13 01:53:10 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra b9e5b908ed Provide an efficient implementation of ‘elem’
The one in Nixpkgs is O(n^2), this one is O(n).  Big reduction in the
number of list allocations.

Statistics before (on a NixOS system config):

  time elapsed: 1.17982
  size of a value: 24
  environments allocated: 1543334 (39624560 bytes)
  list elements: 9612638 (76901104 bytes)
  list concatenations: 37434
  values allocated: 1854933 (44518392 bytes)
  attribute sets allocated: 392040
  right-biased unions: 186334
  values copied in right-biased unions: 591137
  symbols in symbol table: 18272
  number of thunks: 1392467
  number of thunks avoided: 1507311
  number of attr lookups: 430801
  number of primop calls: 691600
  number of function calls: 1492502

Statistics after:

  time elapsed: 1.08683
  size of a value: 24
  environments allocated: 1384376 (35809568 bytes)
  list elements: 6946783 (55574264 bytes)
  list concatenations: 37434
  values allocated: 1760440 (42250560 bytes)
  attribute sets allocated: 392040
  right-biased unions: 186334
  values copied in right-biased unions: 591137
  symbols in symbol table: 18273
  number of thunks: 1297673
  number of thunks avoided: 1380759
  number of attr lookups: 430802
  number of primop calls: 628912
  number of function calls: 1333544
2012-08-13 01:05:35 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 4ccd48ce24 Add a "filter" primop
Evaluation of a NixOS configuration spends quite a lot of time in the
"filter" function in Nixpkgs.  As implemented in Nixpkgs, this is a
O(n^2) operation, so it's a good candidate for providing a more
efficient (i.e. primop) implementation.  Using it gives a ~10% speed
increase and a significant reduction in the number of evaluations.

Statistics before (on a NixOS system config):

  time elapsed: 1.3258
  size of a value: 24
  environments allocated: 1980939 (50127080 bytes)
  list elements: 14679308 (117434464 bytes)
  list concatenations: 50828
  values allocated: 2098938 (50374512 bytes)
  attribute sets allocated: 392040
  right-biased unions: 186334
  values copied in right-biased unions: 591137
  symbols in symbol table: 18271
  number of thunks: 1645752
  number of thunks avoided: 1921196
  number of attr lookups: 430798
  number of primop calls: 838807
  number of function calls: 1930107

Statistics after:

  time elapsed: 1.17982
  size of a value: 24
  environments allocated: 1543334 (39624560 bytes)
  list elements: 9612638 (76901104 bytes)
  list concatenations: 37434
  values allocated: 1854933 (44518392 bytes)
  attribute sets allocated: 392040
  right-biased unions: 186334
  values copied in right-biased unions: 591137
  symbols in symbol table: 18272
  number of thunks: 1392467
  number of thunks avoided: 1507311
  number of attr lookups: 430801
  number of primop calls: 691600
  number of function calls: 1492502
2012-08-13 00:28:08 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra e82767910c Add some basic profiling support to the evaluator
Setting the environment variable NIX_COUNT_CALLS to 1 enables some
basic profiling in the evaluator.  It will count calls to functions
and primops as well as evaluations of attributes.

For example, to see where evaluation of a NixOS configuration spends
its time:

$ NIX_SHOW_STATS=1 NIX_COUNT_CALLS=1 ./src/nix-instantiate/nix-instantiate '<nixos>' -A system --readonly-mode
...
calls to 39 primops:
    239532 head
    233962 tail
    191252 hasAttr
...
calls to 1595 functions:
    224157 `/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos/nixpkgs/pkgs/lib/lists.nix:17:19'
    221767 `/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos/nixpkgs/pkgs/lib/lists.nix:17:14'
    221767 `/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos/nixpkgs/pkgs/lib/lists.nix:17:10'
...
evaluations of 7088 attributes:
    167377 undefined position
    132459 `/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos/nixpkgs/pkgs/lib/attrsets.nix:119:41'
     47322 `/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos/nixpkgs/pkgs/lib/attrsets.nix:13:21'
...
2012-08-12 23:29:28 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 97421eb5ec Refactor settings processing
Put all Nix configuration flags in a Settings object.
2012-07-30 19:55:41 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 8c79100839 Merge branch 'master' into no-manifests 2012-07-26 15:14:33 -04:00
Shea Levy f5954e2d94 prim_import: When importing .drvs, allocate the intermediate attrset on the heap just in case it escapes the stack frame. 2012-07-25 09:30:17 -04:00
Shea Levy b1112bbef1 import: If the path is a valid .drv file, parse it and generate a derivation attrset.
The generated attrset has drvPath and outPath with the right string context, type 'derivation', outputName with
the right name, all with a list of outputs, and an attribute for each output.

I see three uses for this (though certainly there may be more):

* Using derivations generated by something besides nix-instantiate (e.g. guix)

* Allowing packages provided by channels to be used in nix expressions. If a channel installed a valid deriver
  for each package it provides into the store, then those could be imported and used as dependencies or installed
  in environment.systemPackages, for example.

* Enable hydra to be consistent in how it treats inputs that are outputs of another build. Right now, if an
  input is passed as an argument to the job, it is passed as a derivation, but if it is accessed via NIX_PATH
  (i.e. through the <> syntax), then it is a path that can be imported. This is problematic because the build
  being depended upon may have been built with non-obvious arguments passed to its jobset file. With this
  feature, hydra can just set the name of that input to the path to its drv file in NIX_PATH
2012-07-25 09:30:17 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra fe241ece29 Merge branch 'master' into no-manifests 2012-07-18 10:47:59 -04:00