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rustup: add helper to bring dev pkgs in for compilition #75453

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@oxalica oxalica commented Dec 10, 2019

Motivation for this change

When compiling -sys crates, some dependent libraries will be found using pkg-config and get linked. Since our pkg-config use setup-hook to locate pkgs, that means we need to compile always in nix-shell -p pkg-config <other-deps>. Installing these packages globally does not work.

This PR introduces a helper function providing a customized rustup wrapper to make some often-used developing packages available for compiling, without the requirement of nix-shell every time.

Usage:
  • nix-env -iE 'with import <nixpkgs> {}; rustup-with-dev { devPkgs = [ openssl.dev ]; }'
  • cargo build some_crate_using_openssl_sys # Feel free
More concerns:
  • Should we name it to rustup_configurable just like vim_configurable? (With maybe future extension?)
  • More documentation?
Things done
  • Tested using sandboxing (nix.useSandbox on NixOS, or option sandbox in nix.conf on non-NixOS linux)
  • Built on platform(s)
    • NixOS
    • macOS
    • other Linux distributions
  • Tested via one or more NixOS test(s) if existing and applicable for the change (look inside nixos/tests)
  • Tested compilation of all pkgs that depend on this change using nix-shell -p nix-review --run "nix-review wip"
  • Tested execution of all binary files (usually in ./result/bin/)
  • Determined the impact on package closure size (by running nix path-info -S before and after)
  • Ensured that relevant documentation is up to date
  • Fits CONTRIBUTING.md.
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Mic92 commented Dec 10, 2019

This wrapper seems rather opinionated. It uses rustup instead of rustc. It only takes pkg-config's setup-hook into account but ignores all environment variables set are set by other packages i.e CC/CXX/NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE/NIX_LDFLAGS/CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH. Also one would need to either pack all non-rust dependencies into this wrapper or use a nix-shell again to get additional dependencies. This does not quite fit the design of nix and nixpkgs. I don't think we should have it in nixpkgs.

@oxalica oxalica closed this Dec 13, 2019
@oxalica oxalica deleted the rustup-with-dev branch December 23, 2019 21:32
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