ncurses5: Use v6 sources but compiled with --with-abi-version=5

So we don't have to dig out why ncurses5.9 stops compiling with newer
compiler versions again and again.

Inspired by:

https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=ncurses5-compat-libs
wip/yesman
Tuomas Tynkkynen 6 years ago
parent 11e98eaae7
commit 3d24ae9b44
  1. 22
      pkgs/development/libraries/ncurses/default.nix
  2. 46
      pkgs/development/libraries/ncurses/gcc-5.patch
  3. 1
      pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix

@ -11,23 +11,18 @@
}:
stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
version = if abiVersion == "5" then "5.9" else "6.0-20171125";
name = "ncurses-${version}";
version = "6.0-20171125";
name = "ncurses-${version}" + lib.optionalString (abiVersion == "5") "-abi5-compat";
src = fetchurl (if abiVersion == "5" then {
url = "mirror://gnu/ncurses/${name}.tar.gz";
sha256 = "0fsn7xis81za62afan0vvm38bvgzg5wfmv1m86flqcj0nj7jjilh";
} else {
src = fetchurl {
urls = [
"ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/current/${name}.tgz"
"https://invisible-mirror.net/archives/ncurses/current/${name}.tgz"
"ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/current/ncurses-${version}.tgz"
"https://invisible-mirror.net/archives/ncurses/current/ncurses-${version}.tgz"
];
sha256 = "11adzj0k82nlgpfrflabvqn2m7fmhp2y6pd7ivmapynxqb9vvb92";
});
};
# Unnecessarily complicated in order to avoid mass-rebuilds
patches = lib.optional (!stdenv.cc.isClang || abiVersion == "5") ./clang.patch
++ lib.optional (stdenv.cc.isGNU && abiVersion == "5") ./gcc-5.patch;
patches = lib.optional (!stdenv.cc.isClang) ./clang.patch;
outputs = [ "out" "dev" "man" ];
setOutputFlags = false; # some aren't supported
@ -37,7 +32,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
"--without-debug"
"--enable-pc-files"
"--enable-symlinks"
] ++ lib.optional unicode "--enable-widec";
] ++ lib.optional unicode "--enable-widec"
++ lib.optional (abiVersion == "5") "--with-abi-version=5";
# Only the C compiler, and explicitly not C++ compiler needs this flag on solaris:
CFLAGS = lib.optionalString stdenv.isSunOS "-D_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED";

@ -1,46 +0,0 @@
https://bugs.gentoo.org/545114
extracted from the upstream change (which had many unrelated commits in one)
From 97bb4678dc03e753290b39bbff30ba2825df9517 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Thomas E. Dickey" <dickey@invisible-island.net>
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2014 03:10:09 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] ncurses 5.9 - patch 20141206
+ modify MKlib_gen.sh to work around change in development version of
gcc introduced here:
https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-06/msg02185.html
https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-07/msg00236.html
(reports by Marcus Shawcroft, Maohui Lei).
diff --git a/ncurses/base/MKlib_gen.sh b/ncurses/base/MKlib_gen.sh
index d8cc3c9..b91398c 100755
--- a/ncurses/base/MKlib_gen.sh
+++ b/ncurses/base/MKlib_gen.sh
@@ -474,11 +474,22 @@ sed -n -f $ED1 \
-e 's/gen_$//' \
-e 's/ / /g' >>$TMP
+cat >$ED1 <<EOF
+s/ / /g
+s/^ //
+s/ $//
+s/P_NCURSES_BOOL/NCURSES_BOOL/g
+EOF
+
+# A patch discussed here:
+# https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-06/msg02185.html
+# introduces spurious #line markers. Work around that by ignoring the system's
+# attempt to define "bool" and using our own symbol here.
+sed -e 's/bool/P_NCURSES_BOOL/g' $TMP > $ED2
+cat $ED2 >$TMP
+
$preprocessor $TMP 2>/dev/null \
-| sed \
- -e 's/ / /g' \
- -e 's/^ //' \
- -e 's/_Bool/NCURSES_BOOL/g' \
+| sed -f $ED1 \
| $AWK -f $AW2 \
| sed -f $ED3 \
| sed \

@ -10297,7 +10297,6 @@ with pkgs;
notify-sharp = callPackage ../development/libraries/notify-sharp { };
ncurses5 = callPackage ../development/libraries/ncurses {
stdenv = if stdenv.cc.isGNU then overrideCC stdenv gcc6 else stdenv; # Hacky!
abiVersion = "5";
};
ncurses6 = callPackage ../development/libraries/ncurses {

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