Nix on ARM
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In case this helps anyone - by modifying Nix's `release.nix` you can make your own ARMv7 installer.
Here's a prebuilt version: Nix Installer
{ nix ? builtins.fetchGit ./.
, nixpkgs ? <nixpkgs> #builtins.fetchGit { url = https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels.git; ref = "nixos-18.03"; }
, officialRelease ? false
, systems ? [ "armv7l-linux" ]
}:
let
pkgs = import nixpkgs { system = builtins.currentSystem or "x86_64-linux"; };
jobs = rec {
tarball =
with pkgs;
with import ./release-common.nix { inherit pkgs; };
releaseTools.sourceTarball {
name = "nix-tarball";
version = builtins.readFile ./version;
versionSuffix = if officialRelease then "" else "pre${toString nix.revCount}_${nix.shortRev}";
src = nix;
inherit officialRelease;
buildInputs = tarballDeps ++ buildDeps;
configureFlags = "--enable-gc";
postUnpack = ''
(cd source && find . -type f) | cut -c3- > source/.dist-files
cat source/.dist-files
'';
preConfigure = ''
(cd perl ; autoreconf --install --force --verbose)
# TeX needs a writable font cache.
export VARTEXFONTS=$TMPDIR/texfonts
'';
distPhase =
''
runHook preDist
make dist
mkdir -p $out/tarballs
cp *.tar.* $out/tarballs
'';
preDist = ''
make install docdir=$out/share/doc/nix makefiles=doc/manual/local.mk
echo "doc manual $out/share/doc/nix/manual" >> $out/nix-support/hydra-build-products
'';
};
build = pkgs.lib.genAttrs systems (system:
let pkgs = import nixpkgs { inherit system; }; in
with pkgs;
with import ./release-common.nix { inherit pkgs; };
releaseTools.nixBuild {
name = "nix";
src = tarball;
buildInputs = buildDeps;
configureFlags = configureFlags ++
[ "--sysconfdir=/etc" ];
enableParallelBuilding = true;
makeFlags = "profiledir=$(out)/etc/profile.d";
preBuild = "unset NIX_INDENT_MAKE";
installFlags = "sysconfdir=$(out)/etc";
doInstallCheck = true;
installCheckFlags = "sysconfdir=$(out)/etc";
});
perlBindings = pkgs.lib.genAttrs systems (system:
let pkgs = import nixpkgs { inherit system; }; in with pkgs;
releaseTools.nixBuild {
name = "nix-perl";
src = tarball;
buildInputs =
[ jobs.build.${system} curl bzip2 xz pkg-config pkgs.perl boost ]
++ lib.optional (stdenv.isLinux || stdenv.isDarwin) libsodium;
configureFlags = ''
--with-dbi=${perlPackages.DBI}/${pkgs.perl.libPrefix}
--with-dbd-sqlite=${perlPackages.DBDSQLite}/${pkgs.perl.libPrefix}
'';
enableParallelBuilding = true;
postUnpack = "sourceRoot=$sourceRoot/perl";
preBuild = "unset NIX_INDENT_MAKE";
});
binaryTarball = pkgs.lib.genAttrs systems (system:
with import nixpkgs { inherit system; };
let
toplevel = builtins.getAttr system jobs.build;
version = toplevel.src.version;
installerClosureInfo = closureInfo { rootPaths = [ toplevel cacert ]; };
in
runCommand "nix-binary-tarball-${version}"
{ nativeBuildInputs = lib.optional (system != "armv7l-linux") shellcheck;
meta.description = "Distribution-independent Nix bootstrap binaries for ${system}";
}
''
cp ${installerClosureInfo}/registration $TMPDIR/reginfo
substitute ${./scripts/install-nix-from-closure.sh} $TMPDIR/install \
--subst-var-by nix ${toplevel} \
--subst-var-by cacert ${cacert}
substitute ${./scripts/install-darwin-multi-user.sh} $TMPDIR/install-darwin-multi-user.sh \
--subst-var-by nix ${toplevel} \
--subst-var-by cacert ${cacert}
substitute ${./scripts/install-systemd-multi-user.sh} $TMPDIR/install-systemd-multi-user.sh \
--subst-var-by nix ${toplevel} \
--subst-var-by cacert ${cacert}
substitute ${./scripts/install-multi-user.sh} $TMPDIR/install-multi-user \
--subst-var-by nix ${toplevel} \
--subst-var-by cacert ${cacert}
if type -p shellcheck; then
# SC1090: Don't worry about not being able to find
# $nix/etc/profile.d/nix.sh
shellcheck --exclude SC1090 $TMPDIR/install
shellcheck $TMPDIR/install-darwin-multi-user.sh
shellcheck $TMPDIR/install-systemd-multi-user.sh
# SC1091: Don't panic about not being able to source
# /etc/profile
# SC2002: Ignore "useless cat" "error", when loading
# .reginfo, as the cat is a much cleaner
# implementation, even though it is "useless"
# SC2116: Allow ROOT_HOME=$(echo ~root) for resolving
# root's home directory
shellcheck --external-sources \
--exclude SC1091,SC2002,SC2116 $TMPDIR/install-multi-user
fi
chmod +x $TMPDIR/install
chmod +x $TMPDIR/install-darwin-multi-user.sh
chmod +x $TMPDIR/install-systemd-multi-user.sh
chmod +x $TMPDIR/install-multi-user
dir=nix-${version}-${system}
fn=$out/$dir.tar.bz2
mkdir -p $out/nix-support
echo "file binary-dist $fn" >> $out/nix-support/hydra-build-products
tar cvfj $fn \
--owner=0 --group=0 --mode=u+rw,uga+r \
--absolute-names \
--hard-dereference \
--transform "s,$TMPDIR/install,$dir/install," \
--transform "s,$TMPDIR/reginfo,$dir/.reginfo," \
--transform "s,$NIX_STORE,$dir/store,S" \
$TMPDIR/install $TMPDIR/install-darwin-multi-user.sh \
$TMPDIR/install-systemd-multi-user.sh \
$TMPDIR/install-multi-user $TMPDIR/reginfo \
$(cat ${installerClosureInfo}/store-paths)
'');
coverage =
with pkgs;
with import ./release-common.nix { inherit pkgs; };
releaseTools.coverageAnalysis {
name = "nix-build";
src = tarball;
buildInputs = buildDeps;
configureFlags = ''
--disable-init-state
'';
dontInstall = false;
doInstallCheck = true;
lcovFilter = [ "*/boost/*" "*-tab.*" "*/nlohmann/*" "*/linenoise/*" ];
# We call `dot', and even though we just use it to
# syntax-check generated dot files, it still requires some
# fonts. So provide those.
FONTCONFIG_FILE = texFunctions.fontsConf;
};
# Aggregate job containing the release-critical jobs.
release = pkgs.releaseTools.aggregate {
name = "nix-${tarball.version}";
meta.description = "Release-critical builds";
constituents =
[ tarball
build.armv7l-linux
];
};
};
in jobs