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Before, we'd always use `cc = null`, and check for that. The problem is this breaks for cross compilation to platforms that don't support a C compiler. It's a very subtle issue. One might think there is no problem because we have `stdenvNoCC`, and presumably one would only build derivations that use that. The problem is that one still wants to use tools at build-time that are themselves built with a C compiler, and those are gotten via "splicing". The runtime version of those deps will explode, but the build time / `buildPackages` versions of those deps will be fine, and splicing attempts to work this by using `builtins.tryEval` to filter out any broken "higher priority" packages (runtime is the default and highest priority) so that both `foo` and `foo.nativeDrv` works. However, `tryEval` only catches certain evaluation failures (e.g. exceptions), and not arbitrary failures (such as `cc.attr` when `cc` is null). This means `tryEval` fails to let us use our build time deps, and everything comes apart. The right solution is, as usually, to get rid of splicing. Or, baring that, to make it so `foo` never works and one has to explicitly do `foo.*`. But that is a much larger change, and certaily one unsuitable to be backported to stable. Given that, we instead make an exception-throwing `cc` attribute, and create a `hasCC` attribute for those derivations which wish to condtionally use a C compiler: instead of doing `stdenv.cc or null == null` or something similar, one does `stdenv.hasCC`. This allows quering without "tripping" the exception, while also allowing `tryEval` to work. No platform without a C compiler is yet wired up by default. That will be done in a following commit. |
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README.md
Nixpkgs is a collection of over 40,000 software packages that can be installed with the Nix package manager. It also implements NixOS, a purely-functional Linux distribution.
Manuals
- NixOS Manual - how to install, configure, and maintain a purely-functional Linux distribution
- Nixpkgs Manual - contributing to Nixpkgs and using programming-language-specific Nix expressions
- Nix Package Manager Manual - how to write Nix expresssions (programs), and how to use Nix command line tools
Community
Other Project Repositories
The sources of all offical Nix-related projects are in the NixOS organization on GitHub. Here are some of the main ones:
- Nix - the purely functional package manager
- NixOps - the tool to remotely deploy NixOS machines
- Nix RFCs - the formal process for making substantial changes to the community
- NixOS homepage - the NixOS.org website
- hydra - our continuous integration system
- NixOS Artwork - NixOS artwork
Continuous Integration and Distribution
Nixpkgs and NixOS are built and tested by our continuous integration system, Hydra.
- Continuous package builds for unstable/master
- Continuous package builds for the NixOS 19.03 release
- Tests for unstable/master
- Tests for the NixOS 19.03 release
Artifacts successfully built with Hydra are published to cache at https://cache.nixos.org/. When successful build and test criteria are met, the Nixpkgs expressions are distributed via Nix channels. The channels are provided via a read-only mirror of the Nixpkgs repository called nixpkgs-channels.
Contributing
Nixpkgs is among the most active projects on GitHub. While thousands of open issues and pull requests might seem a lot at first, it helps consider it in the context of the scope of the project. Nixpkgs describes how to build over 40,000 pieces of software and implements a Linux distribution. The GitHub Insights page gives a sense of the project activity.
Community contributions are always welcome through GitHub Issues and Pull Requests. When pull requests are made, our tooling automation bot, OfBorg will perform various checks to help ensure expression quality.
The Nixpkgs maintainers are people who have assigned themselves to maintain specific individual packages. We encourage people who care about a package to assign themselves as a maintainer. When a pull request is made against a package, OfBorg will notify the appropriate maintainer(s). The Nixpkgs committers are people who have been given permission to merge.
Most contributions are based on and merged into these branches:
masteris the main branch where all small contributions gostagingis branched from master, changes that have a big impact on Hydra builds go to this branchstaging-nextis branched from staging and only fixes to stabilize and security fixes with a big impact on Hydra builds should be contributed to this branch. This branch is merged into master when deemed of sufficiently high quality
For more information about contributing to the project, please visit the contributing page.
Donations
The infrastructure for NixOS and related projects is maintained by a nonprofit organization, the NixOS Foundation. To ensure the continuity and expansion of the NixOS infrastructure, we are looking for donations to our organization.
You can donate to the NixOS foundation by using Open Collective:
License
Nixpkgs is licensed under the MIT License.
Note: MIT license does not apply to the packages built by Nixpkgs, merely to the files in this repository (the Nix expressions, build scripts, NixOS modules, etc.). It also might not apply to patches included in Nixpkgs, which may be derivative works of the packages to which they apply. The aforementioned artifacts are all covered by the licenses of the respective packages.