Skip to content

ld-wrapper: use a temporary file for reponse file#316743

Closed
reckenrode wants to merge 1 commit intoNixOS:stagingfrom
reckenrode:ld-wrapper-response-file
Closed

ld-wrapper: use a temporary file for reponse file#316743
reckenrode wants to merge 1 commit intoNixOS:stagingfrom
reckenrode:ld-wrapper-response-file

Conversation

@reckenrode
Copy link
Contributor

Description of changes

This changes ld-wrapper to use a temporary file for the response file passed to ld instead of using process substitution.

ld64 does not handle long command-lines when reading from the response file, which defeats the point of using a response file to handle long command-lines. cctools-port was patched to work around this, but nixpkgs is now using Apple’s source release directly instead of the port.

Since it’s preferable not to patch Apple’s release heavily (to reduce the difficulty of updating to new versions and to match upstream’s behavior), use the approach that was adopted in cc-wrapper to work around issues with response files in newer versions of clang.

Related PRs (cctools-port):

Related PRs (cc-wrapper):

Things done

  • Built on platform(s)
    • x86_64-linux
    • aarch64-linux
    • x86_64-darwin
    • aarch64-darwin
  • For non-Linux: Is sandboxing enabled in nix.conf? (See Nix manual)
    • sandbox = relaxed
    • sandbox = true
  • Tested, as applicable:
  • Tested compilation of all packages that depend on this change using nix-shell -p nixpkgs-review --run "nixpkgs-review rev HEAD". Note: all changes have to be committed, also see nixpkgs-review usage
  • Tested basic functionality of all binary files (usually in ./result/bin/)
  • 24.11 Release Notes (or backporting 23.11 and 24.05 Release notes)
    • (Package updates) Added a release notes entry if the change is major or breaking
    • (Module updates) Added a release notes entry if the change is significant
    • (Module addition) Added a release notes entry if adding a new NixOS module
  • Fits CONTRIBUTING.md.

Add a 👍 reaction to pull requests you find important.

This changes ld-wrapper to use a temporary file for the response file
passed to ld instead of using process substitution.

ld64 does not handle long command-lines when reading from the response
file, which defeats the point of using a response file to handle long
command-lines. cctools-port was patched to work around this, but nixpkgs
is now using Apple’s source release directly instead of the port.

Since it’s preferable not to patch Apple’s release heavily (to reduce
the difficulty of updating to new versions and to match upstream’s
behavior), use the approach that was adopted in cc-wrapper to work
around issues with response files in newer versions of clang.

Related PRs (cctools-port):
- NixOS#213831
- tpoechtrager/cctools-port#132

Related PRs (cc-wrapper):
- NixOS#245282
- NixOS#258608
@reckenrode reckenrode requested a review from Ericson2314 as a code owner June 2, 2024 21:36
@ofborg ofborg bot added 10.rebuild-darwin-stdenv This PR causes stdenv to rebuild on Darwin and must target a staging branch. 10.rebuild-linux-stdenv This PR causes stdenv to rebuild on Linux and must target a staging branch. 10.rebuild-darwin: 501+ This PR causes many rebuilds on Darwin and should normally target the staging branches. 10.rebuild-darwin: 5001+ This PR causes many rebuilds on Darwin and must target the staging branches. 10.rebuild-linux: 501+ This PR causes many rebuilds on Linux and should normally target the staging branches. 10.rebuild-linux: 5001+ This PR causes many rebuilds on Linux and must target the staging branches. labels Jun 3, 2024
@reckenrode
Copy link
Contributor Author

Obsoleted by 1cb1853.

@reckenrode reckenrode closed this Jul 18, 2024
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment

Labels

10.rebuild-darwin: 501+ This PR causes many rebuilds on Darwin and should normally target the staging branches. 10.rebuild-darwin: 5001+ This PR causes many rebuilds on Darwin and must target the staging branches. 10.rebuild-darwin-stdenv This PR causes stdenv to rebuild on Darwin and must target a staging branch. 10.rebuild-linux: 501+ This PR causes many rebuilds on Linux and should normally target the staging branches. 10.rebuild-linux: 5001+ This PR causes many rebuilds on Linux and must target the staging branches. 10.rebuild-linux-stdenv This PR causes stdenv to rebuild on Linux and must target a staging branch.

Projects

None yet

Development

Successfully merging this pull request may close these issues.

1 participant