lib/systems/platforms.nix: fix broken mips32 detection #170737
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Prior to this commit, nixpkgs would assume that every little-endian mips32 system was a "fuloong2f_n32". Not only are there plenty of mips32 chips other than the fuloong, but the fuloong is actually a mips64 chip! Note that the "n32" ABI is (confusingly) an ABI for 64-bit mips chips (like the "x32" ABI for amd64 chips -- both are ABIs which use 32-bit pointers on an otherwise-64-bit system). This error causes far-ranging problems. One of them was particularly difficult to track down: it caused GCC to select 128-bit `long double` types, which is invalid for the mips32 ABI. This isn't noticed until you try to build musl-libc, which is careful to check for these things. Prior to this commit, nix-build . -A pkgsCross.mipsel-linux-gnu.pkgsStatic.hello would fail. With this commit and #170736, it succeeds.
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Description of changes
Prior to this commit, nixpkgs would assume that every little-endian
mips32 system was a "fuloong2f_n32".
Not only are there plenty of mips32 chips other than the fuloong, but
the fuloong is actually a mips64 chip! Note that the "n32" ABI is
(confusingly) an ABI for 64-bit mips chips (like the "x32" ABI for
amd64 chips -- both are ABIs which use 32-bit pointers on an
otherwise-64-bit system).
This error causes far-ranging problems. One of them was particularly
difficult to track down: it caused GCC to select 128-bit
long doubletypes, which is invalid for the mips32 ABI. This isn't noticed until
you try to build musl-libc, which is careful to check for these things.
Prior to this commit,
would fail. With this commit and #170736, it succeeds.
Things done
nix-shell -p nixpkgs-review --run "nixpkgs-review rev HEAD". Note: all changes have to be committed, also see nixpkgs-review usage