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Diffstat (limited to 'nixpkgs/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/common/pre-configure.nix')
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diff --git a/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/common/pre-configure.nix b/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/common/pre-configure.nix index 85b854e19b9..1c65b4a8ba6 100644 --- a/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/common/pre-configure.nix +++ b/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc/common/pre-configure.nix @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ , gnatboot ? null , langAda ? false , langJava ? false +, langJit ? false , langGo }: assert langJava -> lib.versionOlder version "7"; @@ -17,3 +18,43 @@ lib.optionalString (hostPlatform.isSunOS && hostPlatform.is64bit) '' '' + lib.optionalString langAda '' export PATH=${gnatboot}/bin:$PATH '' + +# NOTE 2020/3/18: This environment variable prevents configure scripts from +# detecting the presence of aligned_alloc on Darwin. There are many facts that +# collectively make this fix necessary: +# - Nix uses a fixed set of standard library headers on all MacOS systems, +# regardless of their actual version. (Nix uses version 10.12 headers.) +# - Nix uses the native standard library binaries for the build system. That +# means the standard library binaries may not exactly match the standard +# library headers. +# - The aligned_alloc procedure is present in MacOS 10.15 (Catalina), but not +# in earlier versions. Therefore on Catalina systems, aligned_alloc is +# linkable (i.e. present in the binary libraries) but not present in the +# headers. +# - Configure scripts detect a procedure's existence by checking whether it is +# linkable. They do not check whether it is present in the headers. +# - GCC throws an error during compilation because aligned_alloc is not +# defined in the headers---even though the linker can see it. +# +# This fix would not be necessary if ANY of the above were false: +# - If Nix used native headers for each different MacOS version, aligned_alloc +# would be in the headers on Catalina. +# - If Nix used the same libary binaries for each MacOS version, aligned_alloc +# would not be in the library binaries. +# - If Catalina did not include aligned_alloc, this wouldn't be a problem. +# - If the configure scripts looked for header presence as well as +# linkability, they would see that aligned_alloc is missing. +# - If GCC allowed implicit declaration of symbols, it would not fail during +# compilation even if the configure scripts did not check header presence. +# ++ lib.optionalString (hostPlatform.isDarwin) '' + export ac_cv_func_aligned_alloc=no +'' + +# In order to properly install libgccjit on macOS Catalina, strip(1) +# upon installation must not remove external symbols, otherwise the +# install step errors with "symbols referenced by indirect symbol +# table entries that can't be stripped". ++ lib.optionalString (hostPlatform.isDarwin && langJit) '' + export STRIP='strip -x' +'' |