If bash is executed within an environment where PATH is not set, it uses
the DEFAULT_PATH_VALUE compiled into bash to set PATH. In nixpkgs we set
this to /no-such-path by default. This makes sense in a nixpkgs/NixOS
environment since paths like /bin or /usr/bin should not be used.
However, when bash is used inside an FHS environment, this produces
results that differ from distributions which follow the FHS standard.
Before this change:
$ steam-run env -i /bin/bash -c 'echo $PATH'
/no-such-path
After this change:
$ steam-run env -i /bin/bash -c 'echo $PATH'
/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin:.
Readline 8.1 is required for bash-5.1 to work properly.
From bash-5.1 release message[1]:
> Bash can be linked against an already-installed Readline library
> rather than the private version in lib/readline if desired. Only
> readline-8.1 and later versions are able to provide all of the symbols
> that bash-5.1 requires; earlier versions of the Readline library will
> not work correctly.
[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2020-12/msg00003.html
When, after patching, `configure.ac` is newer than `configure`, the
Makefile will try to regenerate `configure` from `configure.ac`.
While that might usually be desirable, in this case we want to keep
bootstrapping simple and directly use the `configure` from the package
so we can avoid a dependency on automake.
Previously, we used the `-T` parameter to automake to make sure the
timestamps were okay. However, this is brittle when we update: when the
timestamp of the original file changes, and no longer matches the
timestamp of the original file in the patch, `patch` will show a warning
but otherwise continue without updating the timestamp.
This PR changes things so we only patch `configure`, so that will always
have a newer timestamp.
We will update bash-4.4 in a separate PR (but that one has a bigger rebuild
impact so will have to target staging)
Refs #115177
When, after patching, `configure.ac` is newer than `configure`, the
Makefile will try to regenerate `configure` from `configure.ac`.
While that might usually be desirable, in this case we want to keep
bootstrapping simple and directly use the `configure` from the package
so we can avoid a dependency on automake.
Previously, we used the `-T` parameter to automake to make sure the
timestamps were okay. However, this is brittle when we update: when the
timestamp of the original file changes, and no longer matches the
timestamp of the original file in the patch, `patch` will show a warning
but otherwise continue without updating the timestamp.
This PR changes things so we only patch `configure`, so that will always
have a newer timestamp.
Refs https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/115177
The file is an example makefile for developing bash plugins, and
contains stuff like:
````
example: example.o
$(SHOBJ_LD) $(SHOBJ_LDFLAGS) $(SHOBJ_XLDFLAGS) -o $@ example.o $(SHOBJ_LIBS)
````
So no package is really going to depend on that, and it's making the
.dev output keep a reference to the bootstrap tools. Just nuke it.
Because if you don't, the configure script assumes that your getcwd()
function is broken. Which then makes bash use it's own getcwd()
implementation, which doesn't work if the path to the current directory
contains bind mounts in its paths. This shows up as:
shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: Bad file descriptor
... and fails the aarch64 glibc build with sandboxes enabled.
Sigh.
Artturin