nixpkgs/pkgs/top-level
Peter Simons 7534cbe4b8 Define "brokenRedHatKernel = true" in $NIXPKGS_CONFIG to build a system that
works on Red Hat Linux, i.e. that is based on glibc version 2.5.

Furthermore, this patch fixes a number of gcc 4.3.3 build errors in glibc 2.5
that occur on both x86 and x86_64. The older version of this library is still
useful for running Nix on a Red Hat host. Newer version of glibc fail to detect
the kernel's capabilities correctly (due to mad patches applied to the kernel
by Red Hat).

The individual changes are:

 * Re-activated glibc 2.5 in all-packages.nix.

 * Fix incomplete header search path in bootstrap tools.

   Gcc-wrapper sets "-B<prefix>" to tell the compiler about its installation
   root. Unfortunately, the setting doesn't add $gcc/lib/gcc/*/*/include-fixed
   to the search path. That directory is required, however, because it contains
   the system-specific "limits.h" file, and the glibc 2.5 builds tries to find
   that file via #include_next.

 * Support intrinsic functions like __signbit() or atof() correctly to avoid
   compile-time conflicts.

 * Switch to NPTL. Linuxthreads is no longer supported.

 * Added a meta attribute to glibc package.

 * Updated nixUnstable to version 0.13pre15614 from trunk. The previous version
   failed regression tests.

 * Fix more strict type checking in binutils since 2.18.50.0.3.

   Without this patch, the build failed on x86, saying:

     ../sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c: Assembler messages:
     ../sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c:33: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `fnstsw'

svn path=/nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates/; revision=16037
2009-06-24 20:10:51 +00:00
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all-packages.nix Define "brokenRedHatKernel = true" in $NIXPKGS_CONFIG to build a system that 2009-06-24 20:10:51 +00:00
build-for-release.nix * Another sync with the trunk. 2009-04-23 11:59:43 +00:00
haskell-packages.nix added json Haskell package; improved gtk2hs 2009-05-05 23:06:01 +00:00
make-tarball.nix svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=14858 2009-04-03 12:34:25 +00:00
mingw.nix * Remove execute permission. 2006-09-11 13:37:46 +00:00
perl-packages.nix * Fix XML::DOM. 2009-05-05 19:42:59 +00:00
release.nix * stdenv jobs should have a lower priority. 2009-05-06 14:43:23 +00:00