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eldritch horrors 4d8c66ec6f add aarch64-linux as a cross-build target
we want to be sure we can cross-build to aarch64 for releases, add a
target to our crossSystems list to make those cheacks easier to run.

Change-Id: Ieb65c1333a5232641ace0ba4d122fc7d528ebc04
2024-07-09 22:49:10 +02:00
Jade Lovelace 85c1241201 doc/hacking: fix up some outdated info about cross, hydra links
We would like to build these with Hydra but we do not currently have a
Hydra to build them with conveniently.

Change-Id: I0832a33881138dd1caab3805df7ad097db347e62
2024-06-25 21:46:26 -07:00
Jade Lovelace 33d53c4983 doc/hacking: fix internal api docs section to say to enable it
I filed a bug to build these in releng in the future:
https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/issues/422

Change-Id: I476a2516cc2be382d4b7c8529a02f9212a78fdb2
2024-06-25 21:26:18 -07:00
Jade Lovelace e537678f1e doc: Add more about the release note generator
Change-Id: I8a274227cb1b05d442d3f644603dd2844ecc9d05
2024-06-25 21:22:37 -07:00
Delan Azabani 5d33e4cd59 Fix build instructions in hacking.md and justfile
The stdenv phases don’t actually do anything (at least not anymore),
and our justfile doesn’t behave the same as our docs.

This patch removes the stdenv phases from the docs, documents our
usage of just, and makes `just setup` heed `$mesonFlags`.

Fixes #413.
Fixes #414.

Change-Id: Ieb0b2a8ae420526238b5f9a73d7849ec6919995d
2024-06-24 12:55:00 +08:00
Raito Bezarius b8cb7abcf0 chore: rebrand Nix to Lix when it makes sense
Here's my guide so far:

$ rg '((?!(recursive).*) Nix
(?!(daemon|store|expression|Rocks!|Packages|language|derivation|archive|account|user|sandbox|flake).*))'
-g '!doc/' --pcre2

All items from this query have been tackled. For the documentation side:
that's for https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/issues/162.

Additionally, all remaining references to github.com/NixOS/nix which
were not relevant were also replaced.

Fixes: https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/issues/148.
Fixes: https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/issues/162.
Change-Id: Ib3451fae5cb8ab8cd9ac9e4e4551284ee6794545
Signed-off-by: Raito Bezarius <raito@lix.systems>
2024-06-01 20:31:24 +02:00
Jade LovelaceandQyriad c97e17144e packaging: rename nixexpr -> lixexpr and so on
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
2024-05-23 16:45:23 -06:00
Jade Lovelace 748d8310fa Fix the pages in the manual for Lix
This doesn't comprehensively fix everything outdated in the manual, or
make the manual greatly better, but it does note down where at least
jade noticed it was wrong, and it does fix all the instances of
referencing Nix to conform to the style guide to the best of our
ability.

A lot of things have been commented out for being wrong, and there are
three types of FIXME introduced:

- FIXME(Lix): generically Lix needs to fix it
- FIXME(Qyriad): re https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/issues/215
- FIXME(meson): docs got outdated by meson changes and need rewriting

I did fix a bunch of it that I could, but there could certainly be
mistakes and this is definitely just an incremental improvement.

Fixes: https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/issues/266
Change-Id: I5993c4603d7f026a887089fce77db08394362135
2024-05-05 16:11:01 -07:00
Qyriad b913a939b0 meson: flip the switch!!
This commit makes Meson the default buildsystem for Lix.
The Make buildsystem is now deprecated and will be removed soon, but has
not yet, which will be done in a later commit when all seems good. The
mesonBuild jobs have been removed, and have not been replaced with
equivalent jobs to ensure the Make buildsystem still works.

The full, new commands in a development shell are:

$ meson setup ./build "--prefix=$out" $mesonFlags

(A simple `meson setup ./build` will also build, but will do a different
thing, not having the settings from package.nix applied.)

$ meson compile -C build
$ meson test -C build --suite=check
$ meson install -C build
$ meson test -C build --suite=installcheck

(Check and installcheck may both be done after install, allowing you to
omit the --suite argument entirely, but this is the order package.nix
runs them in.)

If tests fail and Meson helpfully has no output for why, use the
`--print-error-logs` option to `meson test`. Why this is not the default
I cannot explain.

If you change a setting in the buildsystem, most cases will
automatically regenerate the Meson configuration, but some cases, like
trying to build a specific target whose name is new to the buildsystem
(e.g. `meson compile -C build src/libmelt/libmelt.dylib`, when
`libmelt.dylib` did not exist as a target the last time the buildsystem
was generated), then you can reconfigure using new settings but
existing options, and only recompiling stuff affected by the changes:

$ meson setup --reconfigure build

Note that changes to the default values in `meson.options` or in the
`default_options :` argument to project() are NOT propagated with
`--reconfigure`.

If you want a totally clean build, you can use:

$ meson setup --wipe build

That will work regardless of if `./build` exists or not.

Specific, named targets may be addressed in
`meson build -C build <target>` with the "target ID" if there is one,
which is the first string argument passed to target functions that
have one, and unrelated to the variable name, e.g.:

libexpr_dylib = library('nixexpr', …)

can be addressed with:

$ meson compile -C build nixexpr

All targets may be addressed as their output, relative to the build
directory, e.g.:

$ meson compile -C build src/libexpr/libnixexpr.so

But Meson does not consider intermediate files like object files
targets. To build a specific object file, use Ninja directly and
specify the output file relative to the build directory:

$ ninja -C build src/libexpr/libnixexpr.so.p/nixexpr.cc.o

To inspect the canonical source of truth on what the state of the
buildsystem configuration is, use:

$ meson introspect

Have fun!

Change-Id: Ia3e7b1e6fae26daf3162e655b4ded611a5cd57ad
2024-04-22 21:41:58 -06:00
eldritch horrors 279e30e7ef build: replace changelog-d with local script
hacking changelog-d to support not just github but also forgejo and
gerrit is a lot more complicated than it's worth, even moreso since
the entire thing can just as well be done with ~60 lines of python.
this new script is also much cheaper to instantiate (being python),
so having it enabled in all shells is far less of a hassle.

we've also adjusted existing release notes that referenced a gerrit
cl to auto-link to the cl in question, making the diff a bit bigger

closes https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/issues/176

Change-Id: I8ba7dd0070aad9ba4474401731215fcf5d9d2130
2024-03-27 03:09:14 +00:00
eldritch horrors 4c56629a52 Merge pull request #9692 from 9999years/update-clang-stdenv
Remove `clang11Stdenv`

(cherry picked from commit cbf99c71c6f58579174c1c7649a5421c1d2ba9b0)
Change-Id: I716ce1a54f2006c4a9dc9716e8529fe7858ecebb
2024-03-04 07:48:42 +01:00
eldritch horrors 116e48fad3 Merge pull request #9573 from hercules-ci/rl-next-md-frontmatter
rl-next: Fix and support markdown frontmatter syntax
(cherry picked from commit 69b7876a0810269ad71807594cfd99b26cd8a5ff)
Change-Id: I8bfb8967af0943080fdd70d257c34abaf0a9fedf
2024-03-04 07:12:09 +01:00
eldritch horrors a089d8f5f6 Merge pull request #9465 from obsidiansystems/build-dir
Use `buildprefix` in a few more places

(cherry picked from commit b6a3fde6b7a416929553e6be36fc991680ddf9ef)
Change-Id: I2790663fa9f8242ac2db6582b7e421d2fdf42942
2024-03-04 07:11:25 +01:00
eldritch horrors e8a488236c Merge pull request #9393 from hercules-ci/changelog-d
Automatically compile hand-written release notes with `changelog-d`

(cherry picked from commit 928f0c13414d20c1af88b30bd6700fd730ee0bab)
Change-Id: Ia0685835c52edf185b64dd696b19305746c077e5
2024-03-04 07:11:19 +01:00
eldritch horrors da0aa66d98 Merge pull request #9131 from obsidiansystems/delete-bootstrap-script
Get rid of `bootstrap.sh`

(cherry picked from commit aaef47a08eaf54a8856dd25c784fd85d8d7b0e22)
Change-Id: I1a74bed0c23d6fda06d5dfd8ecad443b9122da12
2024-03-04 04:36:52 +01:00
Valentin GagarinandGitHub 85d0eb6316 fix broken links (#8722) 2023-07-20 17:58:14 +02:00
Valentin GagarinandRobert Hensing 1a220bed93 do not mention output attributes
Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>
2023-07-19 10:38:12 +02:00
Valentin GagarinandRobert Hensing c8f04e2024 note that naming convention is from Autotools
Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>
2023-07-19 10:37:40 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 4944e37ec0 expand on the system type in hacking guide 2023-07-19 10:37:40 +02:00
John Ericson ca49e13414 Split testing into its own page in the contribution guide
`hacking.md` has gotten really big!
2023-06-27 18:27:49 -04:00
5f9a921bc1 do not use "target", as it's a loaded term in the domain of compilers
Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>
2023-06-21 14:31:09 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin a78f929065 fix anchor link 2023-06-21 09:43:22 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin 71317162c5 use more self-descriptive section headings 2023-06-20 13:44:43 +02:00
Christina SørensenandGitHub 741f7837f8 Fix wikipedia links (#8533) 2023-06-17 09:06:17 +00:00
Alexander Schmolck 8d4b6766e2 Convert short nix options to long ones
e.g. nix-env -e subversion => nix-env --uninstall subversion

The aim is to make the documentation less cryptic for newcomers and the
long options are more self-documenting.

The change was made with the following script:

<https://github.com/aschmolck/convert-short-nix-opts-to-long-ones>

and sanity checked visually.
2023-05-17 08:10:30 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 4b9add9b35 Add links to API docs / coverage analysis to the hacking section 2023-03-21 11:47:21 +01:00
Robert HensingandGitHub df6829e0d7 Merge pull request #7867 from NixOS/hacking-cross
doc/hacking.md: Corrections and additions for cross
2023-02-20 22:25:55 +01:00
Robert HensingandGitHub 807ef8f734 doc/hacking.md: Corrections and additions for cross 2023-02-20 12:20:08 +01:00
John Ericsonandzimbatm d7a4f08d42 Nix's own flake: Dedup and memoize more
- `nixpkgsFor` does all of native, static, cross, and the different stdenvs.

- The main Nix derivation is no longer duplicated for static.

- DRY nixpkgs.lib and lib.genAttrs calls.
2023-02-20 11:35:51 +01:00
f2e427942d Improve hacking.md
- Refer to current version in readme
- Split into flakes and non-flakes section
- Change order to move nix-build to the end, since people often start
  with it in the beginning.
- Use proper "Note" syntax
- Add notes about editor integration
- Move information about target platforms and stdenvs into separate
  sections

Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
Co-authored-by: Alexander Bantyev <alexander.bantyev@tweag.io>
Co-authored-by: Théophane Hufschmitt <theophane.hufschmitt@tweag.io>
2023-02-13 12:00:00 +04:00
9aeaf98c4b Make install command in documentation compatible with fish shell (#7474)
Use a pipe for all install commands

Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2023-02-07 22:32:27 +00:00
Peter Becich b8e96351f7 fix clang11Stdenv dev shell documentation
`clang11StdenvPackages` does not exist

```
│   └───x86_64-linux
│       ├───ccacheStdenv: development environment 'nix'
│       ├───clang11Stdenv: development environment 'nix'
│       ├───clangStdenv: development environment 'nix'
│       ├───default: development environment 'nix'
│       ├───gccStdenv: development environment 'nix'
│       ├───libcxxStdenv: development environment 'nix'
│       └───stdenv: development environment 'nix'
```
2023-02-05 12:00:48 -08:00
John EricsonandCole Helbling 7fe308c2f8 Add rapidcheck dependency for testing
Property tests are great!

Co-authored-by: Cole Helbling <cole.e.helbling@outlook.com>
2023-01-23 07:05:50 -05:00
6ae4d762d0 doc/manual/src/contributing/hacking.md: Apply suggestion
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2023-01-10 22:30:41 +01:00
Robert Hensing da4d4feacf doc/manual/hacking: Document @docroot@ variable 2023-01-10 22:30:41 +01:00
fefa3a49ce doc/manual: Apply suggestions from code review
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2023-01-10 22:30:41 +01:00
Robert Hensing d5c8289f1e doc/manual: Document hacking on the manual links 2023-01-10 22:30:41 +01:00
efbd1d15c6 Apply suggestions from code review
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2022-12-23 08:59:36 -08:00
0251d44cc2 Make ./mk/run-test.sh work by itself; add mk/debug-test.sh
First, logic is consolidated in the shell script instead of being spread
between them and makefiles. That makes understanding what is going on a
little easier.

This would not be super interesting by itself, but it gives us a way to
debug tests more easily. *That* in turn I hope is much more compelling.
See the updated manual for details.

Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
Co-authored-by: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>
2022-12-21 02:28:33 -05:00
Valentin GagarinandGitHub ac0fb38e8a Merge pull request #6652 from abathur/doc_install_tests 2022-10-05 17:45:42 +02:00
e1418430ac Apply suggestions from code review
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2022-10-05 09:52:53 -05:00
Solène Rapenne e04b38f789 add ccacheStdenv
when using ccache, rebuild time has been measured
89% faster while not slowing the speed of cold builds
2022-09-23 11:21:19 +02:00
Travis A. Everett 84bdb0e3ad address review feedback
Mainly:
- Try to triangulate between narrative that framed this as
  a new/easy process and the need for a reference that will
  not quickly grow stale.
- Fix a ~continuity issue where the text was talking about
  "your Cachix cache" before saying that you'd need to make
  a Cachix cache to enable the installer tests.
- Adopt suggestion on titling, and nest subtitles in the
  installer test section.
2022-09-18 13:02:42 -05:00
4bd52bf6c4 Apply suggestions from code review
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2022-09-17 13:20:11 -05:00
Valentin GagarinandGitHub dc8c0b173c Update doc/manual/src/contributing/hacking.md 2022-09-16 09:36:55 +02:00
Valentin GagarinandGitHub 1ae974120a Update doc/manual/src/contributing/hacking.md 2022-09-16 09:36:37 +02:00
Valentin GagarinandGitHub 0a4bd9fe88 Update doc/manual/src/contributing/hacking.md 2022-09-16 09:36:30 +02:00
Valentin GagarinandGitHub 47fa1087c8 Update doc/manual/src/contributing/hacking.md 2022-09-16 09:36:20 +02:00
9b7bd2dd1f Apply suggestions from code review
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2022-08-08 10:04:27 -05:00
b5d85f0922 Apply suggestions from code review
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2022-08-05 13:49:18 -05:00