[Nix-dev] Fwd: Nixpkgs stdenv upgrade

[Shea Levy]

On 3/8/12 9:15 AM, Eelco Dolstra wrote:
> On 08/03/12 15:01, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>
>> jack-nix at mudshark.org skribis:
>>
>>> In building libelf, I get a crash:
>>>
>>> nix/h3mnwa34rk4znh8wdfg6y4q6famlzj38-glibc-2.13/bin/gencat de.cat de.msg
>>> make[1]: *** [de.cat] Segmentation fault
>>>
>>> The binary in question is pulling in the system libraries:
>>>
>>> $ ldd nix/h3mnwa34rk4znh8wdfg6y4q6famlzj38-glibc-2.13/bin/gencat
>>>          linux-vdso.so.1 =>   (0x00002aaaaaacb000)
>>>          libc.so.6 =>  /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00002aaaaaccd000)
>>>          nix/h3mnwa34rk4znh8wdfg6y4q6famlzj38-glibc-2.13/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00002aaaaaaab000)
>> It’s using the wrong libc.so.  Not sure how to fix that, though.
> If it was caused by a build-time impurity, then simply using the binaries from
> the Nixpkgs channel should fix this.  As far as I can tell the Glibc binary in
> our channel doesn't reference /lib64.
>

This seems like an incomplete approach to this problem. This is IMO a 
significant impurity in our stdenv (libelf is itself part of stdenv 
through GCC on Linux, right?), and not everyone can use hydra or chroot 
(e.g. non-/nix store with no root access). I know we just merged, but I 
think it might be a good idea to look at fixing this issue anyway.