Commits on Mar 13, 2018

1. setup-hooks: Add autoPatchelfHook …

   I originally wrote this for packaging proprietary games in Vuizvui[1]
   but I thought it would be generally useful as we have a fair amount of
   proprietary software lurking around in nixpkgs, which are a bit tedious
   to maintain, especially when the library dependencies change after an
   update.
   
   So this setup hook searches for all ELF executables and libraries in the
   resulting output paths after install phase and uses patchelf to set the
   RPATH and interpreter according to what dependencies are available
   inside the builder.
   
   For example consider something like this:
   
   stdenv.mkDerivation {
     ...
     nativeBuildInputs = [ autoPatchelfHook ];
     buildInputs = [ mesa zlib ];
     ...
   }
   
   Whenever for example an executable requires mesa or zlib, the RPATH will
   automatically be set to the lib dir of the corresponding dependency.
   
   If the library dependency is required at runtime, an attribute called
   runtimeDependencies can be used to list dependencies that are added to
   all executables that are discovered unconditionally.
   
   Beside this, it also makes initial packaging of proprietary software
   easier, because one no longer has to manually figure out the
   dependencies in the first place.
   
   [1]: https://github.com/openlab-aux/vuizvui
   
   Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@nix.build>
   Closes: #34506
   (cherry picked from commit 1cba74d)

   

   aszlig authored and bjornfor committed Mar 13, 2018
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