Currently, a bunch of documentation is generated by embedding parts of it in
the nix executable, getting it out again by running it, and then postprocessing
the output. This is bad, since it creates a pointless dependency of the
documentation on the executable, and also makes documentation generation
impossible when cross-compiling.
Instead, both the code and the documentation should be generated from data, see
#292 . Here we start applying
this approach to the experimental and deprecated features, which are done in
one go since the technical implementation is very similar.
Of course, the actual benefits are not realised yet, since the offending
pattern is used in several more places. These will be fixed later.
Change-Id: I4c802052cc7e865c61119a34b8f1063c4decc9cb
The devShell relied on several packages directly from `pkgs`
or used with a non-splice-aware functions.
These would be built for the host system, making them useless
in a devShell for the build system.
Make sure that all packages are for the build system when needed.
Some other minor changes also required:
* Make devShells use `clangStdenv` because GCC is currently broken
* Disable rr when making a cross stdenv
Change-Id: Iee5f8a1a0c594139a50f2261b203491bd1644866
This is done because the one in nixpkgs has several problems and we
don't want to conflict with them fixing those problems:
- not building shared libs
- not building debuginfo (more critical for us due to
#549)
- not setting the correct cmake build type
- not setting the correct cxxflags to build the coroutine library
- not building with clang (required for the coroutine library since gcc
is known to miscompile coroutines *in kj*).
CC: #551
Fixes: #550
Change-Id: Ia5b78dc1809963fdd1a8203b127a216cb575d751
This workaround was for the stdenv not being set when callPackage'ing
package.nix for some of the stranger CI outputs.
Change-Id: I2acdd6efa721b90dd3cb04358544d25d591ff084
This failed due to https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/346945, which
makes a second lowdown-unsandboxed that works in nix builds, and the
regular lowdown has executables that fail closed when the sandbox setup
fails.
The actual failure here is only visible on nixos-unstable at the moment,
not 24.05, but this commit should fix it up for all versions.
Fixes: #547
Change-Id: I50c0ecb59518ef01a7c0181114c1b4c5a7c6b78b
This is capped at 12 because 3.7 seconds of startup is painful enough
and 5.5 seconds with 24 was more annoying.
Change-Id: I327db40fd98deaa5330cd9cf6de99fb07b2c1cb0
I am tired of bad shell scripts, let me write bad python quickly
instead. It's definitely, $100%, better.
This is not planned as an immediate replacement of the old test suite,
but we::jade would not oppose tests getting ported.
What is here is a mere starting point and there is a lot more
functionality that we need.
Fixes: #488
Change-Id: If762efce69030bb667491b263b874c36024bf7b6
while gcc 12 and older miscompile our generators, gcc 13 and older
outright crash on kj coroutines. (newer gcc versions may fix this)
Change-Id: I19f12c8c147239680eb0fa5a84ef5c7de38c9263
using a proper event loop basis we no longer have to worry about most of
the intricacies of poll(), or platform-dependent replacements for it. we
may even be able to use the event loop and its promise system for all of
our scheduling in the future. we don't do any real async processing yet,
this is just preparation to separate the first such change from the huge
api design difference with the async framework we chose (kj from capnp):
kj::Promise, unlike std::future, doesn't return exceptions unmangled. it
instead wraps any non-kj exception into a kj exception, erasing all type
information and preserving mostly the what() string in the process. this
makes sense in the capnp rpc use case where unrestricted exception types
can't be transferred, and since it moves error handling styles closer to
a world we'd actually like there's no harm in doing it only here for now
Change-Id: I20f888de74d525fb2db36ca30ebba4bcfe9cc838
nixpkgs delivered us the untimely gift of a meson 1.5 upgrade, which
*does* make our lives easier by allowing us to delete wrap generation
code, but it does so at the cost of renaming all rust crates in such a
way that the wrap logic cannot tolerate the new names on the old meson
version 😭.
It also means that support burden for this is going to be atrocious
until we either give in and vendor meson 1.5 or we make a CI target for
it. Neither seems appealing, though the latter is not super absurd for
ensuring we don't break nixpkgs unstable.
This commit causes meson 1.5 to ignore the .wrap files in subprojects/
entirely (since they have the wrong names lol) and instead use
Cargo.lock, so it now hard-depends on our workspace reshuffling
improvement.
It also deletes the hack that we were using to get the sources of Cargo
deps into meson by using a feature that went unnoticed when this code
was originally written: MESON_PACKAGE_CACHE_DIR:
8a202de6ec/mesonbuild/wrap/wrap.py (L490-L502)
Change-Id: I7a28f12fc2812c6ed7537b60bc3025c141a05874
This is purely to let Cargo's dependency resolver do stuff for us, we do
not actually intend to build this stuff with Cargo to begin with.
Change-Id: I4c08d55595c7c27b7096375022581e1e34308a87
lix-doc is now built with Meson, with lix-doc's dependencies built as
Meson subprojects, either fetched on demand with .wrap files, or fetched
in advance by Nix with importCargoLock. It even builds statically.
Fixes#256.
Co-authored-by: Lunaphied <lunaphied@lunaphied.me>
Co-authored-by: Jade Lovelace <lix@jade.fyi>
Change-Id: I3a4731ff13278e7117e0316bc0d7169e85f5eb0c
I was packaging Lix 2.91 for nixpkgs and was annoyed at the expect
dependency. Turns out that you can replace unbuffer with a pretty-short
Python script.
It became less short after I found out that Linux was converting \n to
\r\n in the terminal subsystem, which was not very funny, but is at
least solved by twiddling termios bits.
Change-Id: I8a2700abcbbf6a9902e01b05b40fa9340c0ab90c
I noticed there was some stuff setting configureFlags that definitely do
not do anything with meson, so let's rip them out.
As for the empty file, it was added when I was thinking I needed a fake
C++ target to convince meson to create the necessary dependencies. That
was not in fact possible so it should have never been committed.
Change-Id: Ied4723d8a5d21aed85f352c48b080ab2c977a496
This still has utterly unacceptably bad output format design that I
would not inflict on anyone I like, but it *does* now exist, and you
*can* find the errors in the log.
Future work would obviously be to fix that and integrate the actual
errors into Gerrit using codechecker or so.
Followup issue: #457
Fixes: #147
Change-Id: Ifca22e443d357762125f4ad6bc4f568af3a26c62
This was broken because Nix language's version comparison does not know
how to deal with versions like -rc1 and considers them newer, which is
in this case not desirable.
That in turn led to not tagging 2.90.0 docker images as "latest" since
the heuristic was wrong.
This commit also adds some more cross-checking and failsafes in case the
person running releng does not have a local main branch that is up to
date.
Fixes: #443
Change-Id: I537103ebab58ae978c00e06972abe14432dd9c80
When MANPATH is unset or contains an empty component, a reasonable default is
used. Previously (after 3dced96741), when MANPATH
was unset, the shell hook would only place a location containing the Lix manual
pages there, and system-wide manual pages would become unavailable in the
development shell, which is undesired. Fix the issue by including an empty
component in this case.
Change-Id: Ib3c67a831d709fe2a87520e15917eebb59397bd1
Expose an option for disabling the BDW-GC build dependency entirely. Fix the
place where one of its headers was included (unnecessarily) without proper
guarding. Finally, use this machinery to exclude BDW-GC from the ASAN builds
entirely (its usage has already been disabled due to compatibility issues
anyway), to ensure this configuration is not regressed again.
Change-Id: I2ebe8094abf67e7d1e99eed971de3e99d071c10b
I have added an option to turn off this build input because I'm much
more comfortable when I don't have that type of thing on my computer.
Its default value is true in order to avoid impacting anyone who depends
on AWS features.
Change-Id: Ic57f3c9b9468f422e9fbdcf3ba0fe96177631067
This was causing a few bits of suffering downstream, in particular, in
the NixOS module, which, after this change, can have the
`officialRelease` stuff in *it* completely deleted since we now have
correct defaulting in package.nix for it.
It also eliminates some automated editing of Nix files, which is
certainly always welcome to eliminate.
Fixes: #406
Change-Id: Id12f3018cff4633e379dbfcbe26b7bc84922bdaf
We should cause CLs that introduce compiler warnings to fail CI. Sadly
this will only cover Clang, but it will cover Clang for free, so it's
truly impossible to say if it's bad or not.
Change-Id: I45ca20d77251af9671d5cbe0d29cb08c5f1d03c2
This should at least catch out blatantly bad patches that don't pass the
test suite with ASan. We don't do this to the integration tests since
they run on relatively limited-memory VMs and so it may not be super
safe to run an evaluator with leak driven garbage collection for them.
Fixes: #403
Fixes: #319
Change-Id: I5267b02626866fd33e8b4d8794344531af679f78
Previously, system call filtering (to prevent builders from storing files with
setuid/setgid permission bits or extended attributes) was performed using a
blocklist. While this looks simple at first, it actually carries significant
security and maintainability risks: after all, the kernel may add new syscalls
to achieve the same functionality one is trying to block, and it can even be
hard to actually add the syscall to the blocklist when building against a C
library that doesn't know about it yet. For a recent demonstration of this
happening in practice to Nix, see the introduction of fchmodat2 [0] [1].
The allowlist approach does not share the same drawback. While it does require
a rather large list of harmless syscalls to be maintained in the codebase,
failing to update this list (and roll out the update to all users) in time has
rather benign effects; at worst, very recent programs that already rely on new
syscalls will fail with an error the same way they would on a slightly older
kernel that doesn't support them yet. Most importantly, no unintended new ways
of performing dangerous operations will be silently allowed.
Another possible drawback is reduced system call performance due to the larger
filter created by the allowlist requiring more computation [2]. However, this
issue has not convincingly been demonstrated yet in practice, for example in
systemd or various browsers. To the contrary, it has been measured that the the
actual filter constructed here has approximately the same overhead as a very
simple filter blocking only one system call.
This commit tries to keep the behavior as close to unchanged as possible. The
system call list is in line with libseccomp 2.5.5 and glibc 2.39, which are the
latest versions at the point of writing. Since libseccomp 2.5.5 is already a
requirement and the distributions shipping this together with older versions of
glibc are mostly not a thing any more, this should not lead to more build
failures any more.
[0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/300635
[1] https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/10424
[2] https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/pull/4462#issuecomment-1061690607
Change-Id: I541be3ea9b249bcceddfed6a5a13ac10b11e16ad
(cherry picked from commit 8cd1d02f90eb9915e640c5d370d919fad9833c65)
nix flake show: Only print up to the first new line if it exists.
(cherry picked from commit 5281a44927bdb51bfe6e5de12262d815c98f6fe7)
add tests
(cherry picked from commit 74ae0fbdc70a5079a527fe143c4832d1357011f7)
Handle long strings, embedded new lines and empty descriptions
(cherry picked from commit 2ca7b3afdbbd983173a17fa0a822cf7623601367)
Account for total length of 80
(cherry picked from commit 1cc808c18cbaaf26aaae42bb1d7f7223f25dd364)
docs: add nix flake show description release note
fix: remove white space
nix flake show: trim length based on terminal size
test: account for terminal size
docs(flake-description): before and after commands; add myself to credits
Upstream-PR: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/10980
Change-Id: Ie1c667dc816b3dd81e65a1f5395e57ea48ee0362
This updates the version of rnix used and refactors the code generally
to be more precise and capable in it's identification of both lambdas
and determining which documentation comments are attached.
Change-Id: Ib0dddabd71f772c95077f9d7654023b37a7a1fd2
this gives about 20% performance improvements on pure parsing. obviously
it will be less on full eval, but depending on how much parsing is to be
done (e.g. including hackage-packages.nix or not) it's more like 4%-10%.
this has been tested (with thousands of core hours of fuzzing) to ensure
that the ASTs produced by the new parser are exactly the same as the old
one would have produced. error messages will change (sometimes by a lot)
and are not yet perfect, but we would rather leave this as is for later.
test results for running only the parser (excluding the variable binding
code) in a tight loop with inputs and parameters as given are promising:
- 40% faster on lix's package.nix at 10000 iterations
- 1.3% faster on nixpkgs all-packages.nix at 1000 iterations
- equivalent on all of nixpkgs concatenated at 100 iterations
(excluding invalid files, each file surrounded with parens)
more realistic benchmarks are somewhere in between the extremes, parsing
once again getting the largest uplift. other realistic workloads improve
by a few percentage points as well, notably system builds are 4% faster.
Benchmarks summary (from ./bench/summarize.jq bench/bench-*.json)
old/bin/nix --extra-experimental-features 'nix-command flakes' eval -f bench/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix
mean: 0.408s ± 0.025s
user: 0.355s | system: 0.033s
median: 0.389s
range: 0.388s ... 0.442s
relative: 1
new/bin/nix --extra-experimental-features 'nix-command flakes' eval -f bench/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix
mean: 0.332s ± 0.024s
user: 0.279s | system: 0.033s
median: 0.314s
range: 0.313s ... 0.361s
relative: 0.814
---
old/bin/nix --extra-experimental-features 'nix-command flakes' eval --raw --impure --expr 'with import <nixpkgs/nixos> {}; system'
mean: 6.133s ± 0.022s
user: 5.395s | system: 0.437s
median: 6.128s
range: 6.099s ... 6.183s
relative: 1
new/bin/nix --extra-experimental-features 'nix-command flakes' eval --raw --impure --expr 'with import <nixpkgs/nixos> {}; system'
mean: 5.925s ± 0.025s
user: 5.176s | system: 0.456s
median: 5.934s
range: 5.861s ... 5.943s
relative: 0.966
---
GC_INITIAL_HEAP_SIZE=10g old/bin/nix eval --extra-experimental-features 'nix-command flakes' --raw --impure --expr 'with import <nixpkgs/nixos> {}; system'
mean: 4.503s ± 0.027s
user: 3.731s | system: 0.547s
median: 4.499s
range: 4.478s ... 4.541s
relative: 1
GC_INITIAL_HEAP_SIZE=10g new/bin/nix eval --extra-experimental-features 'nix-command flakes' --raw --impure --expr 'with import <nixpkgs/nixos> {}; system'
mean: 4.285s ± 0.031s
user: 3.504s | system: 0.571s
median: 4.281s
range: 4.221s ... 4.328s
relative: 0.951
---
old/bin/nix --extra-experimental-features 'nix-command flakes' search --no-eval-cache github:nixos/nixpkgs/e1fa12d4f6c6fe19ccb59cac54b5b3f25e160870 hello
mean: 16.475s ± 0.07s
user: 14.088s | system: 1.572s
median: 16.495s
range: 16.351s ... 16.536s
relative: 1
new/bin/nix --extra-experimental-features 'nix-command flakes' search --no-eval-cache github:nixos/nixpkgs/e1fa12d4f6c6fe19ccb59cac54b5b3f25e160870 hello
mean: 15.973s ± 0.013s
user: 13.558s | system: 1.615s
median: 15.973s
range: 15.946s ... 15.99s
relative: 0.97
---
Change-Id: Ie66ec2d045dec964632c6541e25f8f0797319ee2
These are totally available and you can just turn them on, but they have
very bad dependency tracking and thus bloat incremental change times,
which is not really ok.
Change-Id: Iaa63ed18a789e74fcb757248cd24c3b194afcc80
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