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Author SHA1 Message Date
Eelco Dolstra 8d4268d190 Improve error formatting
Changes:

* The divider lines are gone. These were in practice a bit confusing,
  in particular with --show-trace or --keep-going, since then there
  were multiple lines, suggesting a start/end which wasn't the case.

* Instead, multi-line error messages are now indented to align with
  the prefix (e.g. "error: ").

* The 'description' field is gone since we weren't really using it.

* 'hint' is renamed to 'msg' since it really wasn't a hint.

* The error is now printed *before* the location info.

* The 'name' field is no longer printed since most of the time it
  wasn't very useful since it was just the name of the exception (like
  EvalError). Ideally in the future this would be a unique, easily
  googleable error ID (like rustc).

* "trace:" is now just "…". This assumes error contexts start with
  something like "while doing X".

Example before:

  error: --- AssertionError ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- nix
  at: (7:7) in file: /home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/applications/misc/hello/default.nix

       6|
       7|   x = assert false; 1;
        |       ^
       8|

  assertion 'false' failed
  ----------------------------------------------------- show-trace -----------------------------------------------------
  trace: while evaluating the attribute 'x' of the derivation 'hello-2.10'
  at: (192:11) in file: /home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/stdenv/generic/make-derivation.nix

     191|         // (lib.optionalAttrs (!(attrs ? name) && attrs ? pname && attrs ? version)) {
     192|           name = "${attrs.pname}-${attrs.version}";
        |           ^
     193|         } // (lib.optionalAttrs (stdenv.hostPlatform != stdenv.buildPlatform && !dontAddHostSuffix && (attrs ? name || (attrs ? pname && attrs ? version)))) {

Example after:

  error: assertion 'false' failed

         at: (7:7) in file: /home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/applications/misc/hello/default.nix

              6|
              7|   x = assert false; 1;
               |       ^
              8|

         … while evaluating the attribute 'x' of the derivation 'hello-2.10'

         at: (192:11) in file: /home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/stdenv/generic/make-derivation.nix

            191|         // (lib.optionalAttrs (!(attrs ? name) && attrs ? pname && attrs ? version)) {
            192|           name = "${attrs.pname}-${attrs.version}";
               |           ^
            193|         } // (lib.optionalAttrs (stdenv.hostPlatform != stdenv.buildPlatform && !dontAddHostSuffix && (attrs ? name || (attrs ? pname && attrs ? version)))) {
2021-01-21 11:02:09 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 85c8be6286 Remove static variable name clashes
This was useful for an experiment with building Nix as a single
compilation unit. It's not very useful otherwise but also doesn't
hurt...
2020-10-06 13:49:20 +02:00
Ben Burdette 1d43a6e123 use plain errPos instead of nixCode; fix tests 2020-06-23 15:30:13 -06:00
Eelco Dolstra 1fb762d11f Get rid of explicit ErrorInfo constructors 2020-06-15 14:06:58 +02:00
Ben Burdette ec870b9c85 new pos format for more errors 2020-05-12 10:52:26 -06:00
Eelco Dolstra e322a16523 Remove global -I flags
(cherry picked from commit 2c692a3b14)
2020-03-30 15:30:19 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 94f11d0a61
Fix abort in fromTOML
Fixes #2969.
2019-06-24 17:09:09 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra c2de2ff385
Fix build on 32-bit systems and macOS
Apparently, on macOS, 'long' != 'int64_t'.

https://hydra.nixos.org/build/77100756
2018-07-11 21:12:18 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra efd04888ca
Shup up a warning 2018-07-11 21:05:09 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra ea3c9dab5f
Include cpptoml for build simplicity 2018-07-03 18:39:36 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 3b1f54cf06
Add a fromTOML primop
This is primarily useful for processing Cargo.lock files.
2018-07-03 18:39:36 +02:00