Done with the help of https://github.com/Mindavi/nixpkgs-mark-broken
Tool is still WIP but this is one of the first results.
I manually audited the results and removed some results that were not valid.
Note that some of these packages maybe should have more constrained platforms set
instead of broken set, but I think not being perfectly correct is better than
just keep trying to build all these things and never succeeding.
Some observations:
- Some darwin builds require XCode tools
- aarch64-linux builds sometimes suffer from using gcc9
- gcc9 is getting older and misses some new libraries/features
- Sometimes tools try to do system detection or expect some explicit settings for
platforms that are not x86_64-linux
musl and darwin support UTF-8 locales without any extras. As a result
unzip can unpack UTF-8 filenames there as is. But on glibc without
locale archive presence files get mangled as:
deps/αβ -> deps/#U03b1#U03b2
This makes `fetchzip` fixed-output derivations unstable.
Tested this change to fail in `coq.src` which was generated in system
that mangles UTF-8 symbols:
$ nix build -f. coq.src --rebuild -L
source> trying https://github.com/coq/coq/archive/V8.15.2.zip
source> % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
source> Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
source> 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:01 --:--:-- 0
source> 100 8945k 100 8945k 0 0 1513k 0 0:00:05 0:00:05 --:--:-- 1989k
source> unpacking source archive /build/V8.15.2.zip
error: hash mismatch in fixed-output derivation '/nix/store/hrnyykm7wgw8vxisgq7hc2bg5gr0y6s8-source.drv':
specified: sha256-h81nFqkuvZkMR7YLHy7laTq5yOhjMW+w6rYzncxvyD4=
got: sha256-DTspmwyD3Evl1CUmvUy2MonbLGUezvsHN3prmP9eK2I=
Note: it means that some of existing caches for fixed output
derivations become incorrect. It should not break already cached
tarballs on cache.nixos.org thus the impact should not be widespread.
`uasm` is x86 only.
It seems that in `aarch64-linux` at least, the optimizing build is done
without using any third-party tool (maybe using GCC's own assembly?).
Wimlib works just fine on darwin, but two adjustments need to be made:
- Tests need to be disabled, as they rely on glibc-isms (such as
lgetattr).
- cdrkit and syslinux dependencies are dropped, as those binaries are
linux-only.
