Build failure

[zax71]

Hi! I'm trying to use this to get IntelliJ's Java management to be functional on NixOS, but the Flake fails to build. Not sure if this is a bug or user error but let's see!

I followed the steps in #32 by adding this to my system Flake, then adding pkgs.intellij-idea-community to my system packages. Upon rebuilding, it errors with:

error: builder for '/nix/store/12arkfd3ssla8wqn6vqwz0b152a7nz5z-jetbrainsruntime-21.0.5-b631.28.drv' failed with exit code 1;
       last 8 log lines:
       > Running phase: unpackPhase
       > unpacking source archive /nix/store/232igh8sry2p92y331zimqil8lxdg0r5-source
       > source root is source
       > Running phase: patchPhase
       > applying patch /nix/store/881pcwinv35z9f6c5max2m7il0sxvg3n-fix-java-home-jdk10.patch
       > patching file src/hotspot/os/linux/os_linux.cpp
       > Hunk #1 FAILED at 2270.
       > 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file src/hotspot/os/linux/os_linux.cpp.rej
       For full logs, run 'nix log /nix/store/12arkfd3ssla8wqn6vqwz0b152a7nz5z-jetbrainsruntime-21.0.5-b631.28.drv'.
error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/hxpr9md84j5v94cvg4922vwh5saa3ml4-intellij-idea-community-2024.3.1.drv' failed to build
error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/7y4rlh2r74xwsrrn7nxfz0bf94a1884r-system-path.drv' failed to build
error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/pyhaffhzbna4gss6glrdxv0r7asmcr81-nixos-system-z-pc-24.11.20241203.b681065.drv' failed to build

With the log command it asks for outputting:

warning: The interpretation of store paths arguments ending in `.drv` recently changed. If this command is now failing try again with '/nix/store/12arkfd3ssla8wqn6vqwz0b152a7nz5z-jetbrainsruntime-21.0.5-b631.28.drv^*'
Running phase: unpackPhase
@nix { "action": "setPhase", "phase": "unpackPhase" }
unpacking source archive /nix/store/232igh8sry2p92y331zimqil8lxdg0r5-source
source root is source
Running phase: patchPhase
@nix { "action": "setPhase", "phase": "patchPhase" }
applying patch /nix/store/881pcwinv35z9f6c5max2m7il0sxvg3n-fix-java-home-jdk10.patch
patching file src/hotspot/os/linux/os_linux.cpp
Hunk #1 FAILED at 2270.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file src/hotspot/os/linux/os_linux.cpp.rej

[liff]

Sorry, I have not been using this flake for a while myself, so it appears to have rotted a bit. I think one of the issues is that the JBR patches should be updated for the new Java 21 -based release.

That said, I don’t currently have plans to work on this.

[zax71]

I see. Would you know of any way to bundle Java installs with IntelliJ on NixOS so that the the JDK manager doesn’t break on every rebuild? That is what I was trying to achieve with this flake

[liff]

No, and there’s no explicit support for such thing in this flake either. How were you thinking of accomplishing that? It sounds like something that could be submitted to nixpkgs just as well.

[zax71]

I was thinking of using Nix to get the path of all the Java installs packaged with IntelliJ and then put their paths in an environment variable that you can read in IntelliJ.

Regarding packaging, I’ve never done anything regarding that so I’m not sure how achievable it is. Maybe this would be better suited for home manager? I’d assume there’s a config file for Java installs in IntelliJ that it could write to

[liff]

There is a config file, ~/.config/JetBrains/IntelliJIdea2024.3/options/jdk.table.xml, which you could manage with home-manager, but it’s not trivial to generate.

Alternative solution might be to add some known fixed locations for the JDKs, that you can use when adding the JDKs to IDEA:

NixOS

{
  environment.etc = {
    "jdks/openjdk21".source = pkgs.openjdk21.home;
    "jdks/openjdk23".source = pkgs.openjdk23.home;
  };
}

You can then add JDKs

home-manager

{
  xdg.dataFile = {
    "jdks/openjdk21".source = pkgs.openjdk21.home;
    "jdks/openjdk23".source = pkgs.openjdk23.home;
  };
}