It's a second attempt to merge the change. Previous attempt
was reverted in b976b34a5b.
Since then underlying failure exposed by original change was
fixed by https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/5354.
Below goes description of original change:
The link failure happens on a system with stable nix-2.3.15
installed in /usr/lib64 (it's libutil.so API differs from master):
```
LANG=C make V=1
g++ -o /home/slyfox/dev/git/nix/src/libstore/libnixstore.so \
-shared -L/usr/lib64 -Wl,--no-copy-dt-needed-entries \
src/libstore/binary-cache-store.o ... src/libstore/uds-remote-store.o \
-lsqlite3 -lcurl -lsodium -pthread -ldl -lseccomp -Wl,-z,defs -Wl,-soname=libnixstore.so
-Wl,-rpath,/home/slyfox/dev/git/nix/src/libutil -Lsrc/libutil -lnixutil
ld: src/libstore/binary-cache-store.o: in function `nix::BinaryCacheStore::BinaryCacheStore(
std::map<std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, ...
nix/src/libstore/binary-cache-store.cc:30: undefined reference to `nix::readFile(
std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&)' ...
...
```
This happens due to `-L/usr/lib64 -Lsrc/libutil` search path ordering.
The change turns it into `-Lsrc/libutil -L/usr/lib64`.
Closes: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/3087
This changes the representation of the interrupt callback list to
be safe to use during interrupt handling.
Holding a lock while executing arbitrary functions is something to
avoid in general, because of the risk of deadlock.
Such a deadlock occurs in https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/3294
where ~CurlDownloader tries to deregister its interrupt callback.
This happens during what seems to be a triggerInterrupt() by the
daemon connection's MonitorFdHup thread. This bit I can not confirm
based on the stack trace though; it's based on reading the code,
so no absolute certainty, but a smoking gun nonetheless.
previously :a would override old bindings of a name with new values if the added
set contained names that were already bound. in nix 2.6 this doesn't happen any
more, which is potentially confusing.
fixes#6041
At this point, we don’t know if the input is a flake or not. So, we
should allow the user to override the input with a directory without a
flake.nix.
Ideally, we could figure whether the input was originally a flake or
not, but that would require instantiating the whole flake. So just
allow it to be missing here, and rely on checks later on to verify the
input for us.
Bundlers are now responsible for correctly handling their inputs which
are no longer constrained to be (Drv->Drv)->Drv->Drv, but can be of
type (attrset->Drv)->attrset->Drv.
we'll retain the old coerceToString interface that returns a string, but callers
that don't need the returned value to outlive the Value it came from can save
copies by using the new interface instead. for values that weren't stringy we'll
pass a new buffer argument that'll be used for storage and shouldn't be
inspected.
Sergei Trofimovich
Robert Hensing
Maximilian Bosch