vmTools: Fix BusyBox runtime error in initrd

With the recent update of BusyBox to version 1.29.0 in
d6aa506e3b there is now a new dependency
on libresolv.

This now throws a runtime error when executing ash, eg. whenever we do
something like this:

nix-build -E 'with import ./. {}; vmTools.runInLinuxVM hello'

The resulting error will be:

  .../ash: error while loading shared libraries: libresolv.so.2: cannot
           open shared object file: No such file or directory

I tried to override BusyBox with enableStatic, but that still requires
parts of glibc:

  Static linking against glibc, can't use --gc-sections
  Trying libraries: crypt m resolv
   Library crypt is not needed, excluding it
   Library m is needed, can't exclude it (yet)
   Library resolv is needed, can't exclude it (yet)
   Library m is needed, can't exclude it (yet)
   Library resolv is needed, can't exclude it (yet)
  Final link with: m resolv

In the long term maybe switching to a more minimal C library such as
musl would make more sense, but for now I just added libresolv.so to the
initrd which fixes the runtime error.

Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@nix.build>
Cc: @edolstra, @rbvermaa
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@nix.build>
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aszlig 2018-07-18 02:42:27 +02:00
parent e8e96e4b72
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@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ rec {
hd = "vda"; # either "sda" or "vda"
initrdUtils = runCommand "initrd-utils"
{ buildInputs = [ nukeReferences ];
allowedReferences = [ "out" modulesClosure ]; # prevent accidents like glibc being included in the initrd
@ -35,6 +34,7 @@ rec {
cp -p ${pkgs.stdenv.glibc.out}/lib/ld-linux*.so.? $out/lib
cp -p ${pkgs.stdenv.glibc.out}/lib/libc.so.* $out/lib
cp -p ${pkgs.stdenv.glibc.out}/lib/libm.so.* $out/lib
cp -p ${pkgs.stdenv.glibc.out}/lib/libresolv.so.* $out/lib
# Copy BusyBox.
cp -pd ${pkgs.busybox}/bin/* $out/bin