Currently, a bunch of documentation is generated by embedding parts of it in
the nix executable, getting it out again by running it, and then postprocessing
the output. This is bad, since it creates a pointless dependency of the
documentation on the executable, and also makes documentation generation
impossible when cross-compiling.
Instead, both the code and the documentation should be generated from data, see
https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/issues/292 . Here we start applying
this approach to the experimental and deprecated features, which are done in
one go since the technical implementation is very similar.
Of course, the actual benefits are not realised yet, since the offending
pattern is used in several more places. These will be fixed later.
Change-Id: I4c802052cc7e865c61119a34b8f1063c4decc9cb
like kj::joinPromisesFailFast this allows waiting for the results of
multiple promises at once, but unlike it not all input promises must
be complete (or any of them failed) for results to become available.
Change-Id: I0e4a37e7bd90651d56b33d0bc5afbadc56cde70c
like a normal semaphore, but with awaitable acquire actions. this is
primarily intended as an intermediate concurrency limiting device in
the Worker code, but it may find other uses over time. we do not use
std::counting_semaphore as a base because the counter of that is not
inspectable as will be needed for Worker. we also do not need atomic
operations for cross-thread consistency since we don't have multiple
threads (thanks to kj event loops being confined to a single thread)
Change-Id: Ie2bcb107f3a2c0185138330f7cbba4cec6cbdd95
we're using boost::outcome rather than leaf or stl types because stl
types are not available everywhere and leaf does not provide its own
storage for error values, relying on thread-locals and the stack. if
we want to use promises we won't have a stack and would have to wrap
everything into leaf-specific allocating wrappers, so outcome it is.
Change-Id: I35111a1f9ed517e7f12a839e2162b1ba6a993f8f
updating statistics *immediately* when any counter changes declutters
things somewhat and makes useful status reports less dependent on the
current worker main loop. using callbacks will make it easier to move
the worker loop into kj entirely, using only promises for scheduling.
Change-Id: I695dfa83111b1ec09b1a54cff268f3c1d7743ed6
Apparently the fmt contraption has some extremely popular overloads, and
the boost stuff in there gets built approximately infinite times in
every compilation unit.
Change-Id: Ideba2db7d6bf8559e4d91974bab636f5ed106198
They are like experimental features, but opt-in instead of opt-out. They
will allow us to gracefully remove language features. See #437
Change-Id: I9ca04cc48e6926750c4d622c2b229b25cc142c42
I don't like having so many reinterpret_cast statements that have to
actually be looked at to determine if they are UB. A huge number of the
reinterpret_cast instances in Lix are actually casting to some pointer
of some character type, which is always valid no matter the source type.
However, it is also worth looking at if it is not casting both *from* a
character type and also *to* a character type, since IMO splatting a
struct into a character array should be a very deliberate action instead
of just being about dealing with bad APIs.
So let's write a template that encapsulates this invariant so we can
not worry about the trivially safe reinterpret_cast invocations.
Change-Id: Ia4e2f1fa0c567123a96604ddadb3bdd7449660a4
bindPath/doBind is a useful function in build that is used in several
parts of LocalDerivationGoal. Moving this function makes it easier to
split LocalDerivationGoal implementation between several files.
Change-Id: Ic5a0768479c153c1aa3ed425f12604b20bbf0f42
this will be the basis of non-boost coroutines in lix. anything that is
a boost coroutine *should* be representable with a Generator coroutine,
and many things that are not currently boost coroutines but behave much
like one (such as, notably, serializers) should be as well. this allows
us to greatly simplify many things that look like iteration but aren't.
Change-Id: I2cebcefa0148b631fb30df4c8cfa92167a407e34
They are enabled by default, and Meson will also prints whether or not
they're enabled at the bottom at the end of configuration.
Change-Id: I48db238510bf9e74340b86f243f4bbe360794281
This causes libstore, libexpr, libfetchers, and libutil to be linked
with -Wl,--whole-archive to executables, when building statically.
libstore for the store backends, libexpr for the primops, libfetchers
for the fetcher backends I assume(?), and libutil for the nix::logger
initializer (which notably shows in pre-main constructors when HOME is
not owned by the user. cursed.).
This workaround should be removed when #359 is fixed.
Fixes#306.
Change-Id: Ie9ef0154e09a6ed97920ee8ab23810ca5e2de84c
It seems like someone implemented precompiled headers a long time ago
and then it never got ported to meson or maybe didn't work at all.
This is, however, blessedly easy to simply implement. I went looking for
`#define` that could affect the result of precompiling the headers, and
as far as I can tell we aren't doing any of that, so this should truly
just be free build time savings.
Previous state:
Compilation (551 times):
Parsing (frontend): 1302.1 s
Codegen & opts (backend): 956.3 s
New state:
**** Time summary:
Compilation (567 times):
Parsing (frontend): 1123.0 s
Codegen & opts (backend): 1078.1 s
I wonder if the "regression" in codegen time is just doing the PCH
operation a few times, because meson does it per-target.
Change-Id: I664366b8069bab4851308b3a7571bea97ac64022
This breaks downstreams linking to us on purpose to make sure that if
someone is linking to Lix they're doing it on purpose and crucially not
mixing up Nix and Lix versions in compatibility code.
We still need to fix the internal includes to follow the same schema so
we can drop the single-level include system entirely. However, this
requires a little more effort.
This adds pkg-config for libfetchers and config.h.
Migration path:
expr.hh -> lix/libexpr/expr.hh
nix/config.h -> lix/config.h
To apply this migration automatically, remove all `<nix/>` from
includes, so: `#include <nix/expr.hh>` -> `#include <expr.hh>`. Then,
the correct paths will be resolved from the tangled mess, and the
clang-tidy automated fix will work.
Then run the following for out of tree projects:
```
lix_root=$HOME/lix
(cd $lix_root/clang-tidy && nix develop -c 'meson setup build && ninja -C build')
run-clang-tidy -checks='-*,lix-fixincludes' -load=$lix_root/clang-tidy/build/liblix-clang-tidy.so -p build/ -fix src
```
Related: https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/nix-eval-jobs/pulls/5
Fixes: https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/issues/279
Change-Id: I7498e903afa6850a731ef8ce77a70da6b2b46966
it's no longer used. it really shouldn't have existed this long since it
was just a mashup of both std::promise and std::packaged_task in a shape
that makes composition unnecessarily difficult. all but a single case of
Callback pattern calls were fully synchronous anyway, and even this sole
outlier was by far not important enough to justify the extra complexity.
Change-Id: I208aec4572bf2501cdbd0f331f27d505fca3a62f
Previously, the garbage collector found runtime roots on Darwin by
shelling out to `lsof -n -w -F n` then parsing the result.
However, this requires an lsof binary and can be extremely slow.
The official Apple lsof returns in a reasonable amount of time,
about 250ms in my tests, but the lsof packaged in nixpkgs is quite slow,
taking about 40 seconds to run the command.
Using libproc directly is about the same speed as Apple lsof,
and allows us to reënable several tests that were disabled on Darwin.
Change-Id: Ifa0adda7984e13c15535693baba835aae79a3577
Without this, the Meson setup won't bail out if nlohmann_json is
missing, leading to subpar DX (and maybe worse, but I'm not entirely
sure).
Change-Id: I5913111060226b540dcf003257c99a08e84da0de
one headers (args/root.hh) was simply missing, and the generated headers
were not installed. not all of them *should* be installed either, only a
select few (and sadly this needs a custom target for each one, it seems)
Change-Id: I37b25517895d0e5e521abc1202fa65624de57ed1
This was achieved by running maintainers/buildtime_report.sh on the
build directory of a meson build, then asking "why the heck is json
eating our build times", and strategically moving the json using bits
out of widely included headers.
It turns out that putting literally any metrics whatsoever into the
build had immediate and predictable results.
Results are 1382.5s frontend time -> 1175.4s frontend time, back end
time approximately invariant.
Related: https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/issues/159
Change-Id: I7edea95c8536203325c8bb4dae5f32d727a21b2d
This commit adds several meson.build, which successfully build and
install Lix executables, libraries, and headers. Meson does not yet
build docs, Perl bindings, or run tests, which will be added in
following commits. As such, this commit does not remove the existing
build system, or make it the default, and also as such, this commit has
several FIXMEs and TODOs as notes for what should be done before the
existing autoconf + make buildsystem can be removed and Meson made the
default. This commit does not modify any source files.
A Meson-enabled build is also added as a Hydra job, and to
`nix flake check`.
Change-Id: I667c8685b13b7bab91e281053f807a11616ae3d4
Alois Wohlschlager