Result of nixpkgs-review pr 105438 run on x86_64-linux 1

Fails to build on darwin:

cp .libs/justenoughharfbuzz.so .libs/justenoughfontconfig.so  .libs/justenoughlibtexpdf.so .libs/fontmetrics.so .libs/svg.so .libs/justenoughicu.so ../core
make[2]: Leaving directory '/private/tmp/nix-build-sile-0.10.13.drv-0/sile-0.10.13/src'
make[2]: Entering directory '/private/tmp/nix-build-sile-0.10.13.drv-0/sile-0.10.13'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'all-am'.
make[2]: Leaving directory '/private/tmp/nix-build-sile-0.10.13.drv-0/sile-0.10.13'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/private/tmp/nix-build-sile-0.10.13.drv-0/sile-0.10.13'
@nix { "action": "setPhase", "phase": "checkPhase" }
running tests
check flags: -j4 -l4 SHELL=/nix/store/k89nm2jva0qmvd970f84wq2iq1iwm9bs-bash-4.4-p23/bin/bash VERBOSE=y check
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory '/private/tmp/nix-build-sile-0.10.13.drv-0/sile-0.10.13'
Making all in libtexpdf
make[2]: Entering directory '/private/tmp/nix-build-sile-0.10.13.drv-0/sile-0.10.13/libtexpdf'
make  all-am
make[3]: Entering directory '/private/tmp/nix-build-sile-0.10.13.drv-0/sile-0.10.13/libtexpdf'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for 'all-am'.
make[3]: Leaving directory '/private/tmp/nix-build-sile-0.10.13.drv-0/sile-0.10.13/libtexpdf'
make[2]: Leaving directory '/private/tmp/nix-build-sile-0.10.13.drv-0/sile-0.10.13/libtexpdf'
Making all in src
make[2]: Entering directory '/private/tmp/nix-build-sile-0.10.13.drv-0/sile-0.10.13/src'
cp .libs/justenoughharfbuzz.so .libs/justenoughfontconfig.so  .libs/justenoughlibtexpdf.so .libs/fontmetrics.so .libs/svg.so .libs/justenoughicu.so ../core
make[2]: Leaving directory '/private/tmp/nix-build-sile-0.10.13.drv-0/sile-0.10.13/src'
make[2]: Entering directory '/private/tmp/nix-build-sile-0.10.13.drv-0/sile-0.10.13'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'all-am'.
make[2]: Leaving directory '/private/tmp/nix-build-sile-0.10.13.drv-0/sile-0.10.13'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/private/tmp/nix-build-sile-0.10.13.drv-0/sile-0.10.13'
touch .built-subdirs
output=$(mktemp --suffix=.pdf)
trap 'rm -f $output' EXIT SIGHUP SIGTERM
./sile -o $output - <<< "<sile>foo</sile>"
pdfinfo $output | grep "SILE v0.10.13"
./sile: line 2: SYSTEM_SILE_PATH: command not found
./sile: line 3: SHARED_LIB_EXT: command not found
./sile: line 5: syntax error near unexpected token `('
./sile: line 5: `local executable = debug.getinfo(1, "S").short_src'
Syntax Error: Document stream is empty
make: *** [Makefile:1417: selfcheck] Error 1

@SuperSandro2000 I'm not exactly sure what that error is about, but here are a couple things to note:

1. The error being thrown suggests that automake tooling didn't run properly on sile.in, otherwise those lines would not be placeholders they would be valid Lua code.
2. This bit of the Makefile.am & configure.ac files hasn't changed at all since the last release, nor indeed many releases before that.
3. This isn't just a problem with SILE on macOS, the Homebrew builds for this release went off without a hitch and are already in the wild.

I don't know what to say is causing this, that's just some info that might help narrow it down.

Full log https://termbin.com/w11x

I found something interesting.

./libtool: line 8118: func_munge_path_list: command not found

If this does not help just mark it broken on darwin. I have no idea right now either.

I think we discussed in the past how we usually handle autoconf / automake (vs Nixpkgs' autoreconfHook) & and whether we usually want / don't want to use source tarballs, or bare git checkouts. This package is sitting in both sides of the fence - it needs the tarball that was generated by the release process of upstream - i.e this tarball but still somehow it requires autoconf and automake during the build, and not autoreconfHook.

I tried getting it to build from a git checkout with this diff:

diff --git i/pkgs/tools/typesetting/sile/default.nix w/pkgs/tools/typesetting/sile/default.nix
index 239bafa05c9..2d22dff650f 100644
--- i/pkgs/tools/typesetting/sile/default.nix
+++ w/pkgs/tools/typesetting/sile/default.nix
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 { stdenv
 , darwin
-, fetchurl
+# , fetchurl
+, fetchFromGitHub
 , makeWrapper
 , pkg-config
-, autoconf
-, automake
+, autoreconfHook
 , poppler_utils
 , harfbuzz
 , icu
@@ -38,21 +38,28 @@ in
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "sile";
-  version = "0.10.12";
+  version = "0.10.13";
 
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://github.com/sile-typesetter/sile/releases/download/v${version}/${pname}-${version}.tar.xz";
-    sha256 = "0bxm3vhba289vcgpzbs1hz5fjamf0zgxkr7h8vcsiijjjavmv64a";
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "sile-typesetter";
+    repo = "sile";
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    # url = "https://github.com/sile-typesetter/sile/releases/download/v${version}/${pname}-${version}.tar.xz";
+    sha256 = "pNV2xdFjL3f91rnDLPs1DMr24Mz+ZasOarI+D4q/E+4=";
+    fetchSubmodules = true;
   };
 
+  postUnpack = ''
+    patchShebangs $sourceRoot/build-aux/{decore-automake.sh,list-dist-files.sh,git-version-gen}
+  '';
+
   configureFlags = [
     "--with-system-luarocks"
     "--with-manual"
   ];
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [
-    autoconf
-    automake
+    autoreconfHook
     pkg-config
     makeWrapper
   ];

But due to the build being sandboxed I encountered issues with the fonts that are supposed to be downloaded if the build is done from a git checkout due to:

https://github.com/sile-typesetter/sile/blob/0c9c8bf7a8b0e94d887a4ed055210e32cb471a5c/Makefile-fonts#L35

So @alerque if you could find a way to make it easy for Nix to download all the necessary fonts, that would be great. Otherwise, we can mark it as broken for Darwin.

Result of nixpkgs-review pr 105438 1

So @alerque if you could find a way to make it easy for Nix to download all the necessary fonts, that would be great. Otherwise, we can mark it as broken for Darwin.

Thanks for the follow up on this @doronbehar. Sorry I've been AWOL‌ for a while. I got a bit buried by life and FOSS stuff got really patchy.

Just to clarify here, building from Git requires font downloads because the manual is not prebuilt in the Git repository (it would be a huge binary blob that updates on every commit). There already is a helper in the Makefile for downloading fonts, but you don't need it. The source tarballs have a prebuilt PDF manual in the package and don't need to download any fonts.

What was really wrong here is that autoconf/automake should not be required by builds from the tarball. I don't quite understand what the resolution was here, but if there is still something in the source tarballs that requires autoconf I'd like to fix it.

What was really wrong here is that autoconf/automake should not be required by builds from the tarball.

Could it be it's needed for the tests? The fact that we need autoconf & automake (for whatever rightful or not reasons), it's not the reason it was broken on Darwin.

I don't quite understand what the resolution was here

See #105438 (review) - it's totally a Nix issue on Darwin. It's possible that prior to this update, sile was broken on darwin, but we didn't know it.

Could it be it's needed for the tests?

Yes, that's possible.

The fact that we need autoconf & automake (for whatever rightful or not reasons), it's not the reason it was broken on Darwin.

I'd like to get to the bottom of this and eliminate whatever reasons there may be.

Lets say I had a working Docker or VirtualBox image spun up with Nix on board (I have both). What would be the most expeditious way to play with this formula such that I can edit it to experiment without waiting for CI and such that I can feed it test tarballs of unreleased sources. For science.

The issue due to it this is broken on Darwin is very old: #23018 and only a few weeks ago at NixOS/rfcs#75 (comment) we sort of only slightly tackled a close issue related to it.