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In preparation for bumping the LLVM used by Darwin, this change refactors and reworks the stdenv build process. When it made sense, existing behaviors were kept to avoid causing any unwanted breakage. However, there are some differences. The reasoning and differences are discussed below. - Improved cycle times - Working on the Darwin stdenv was a tedious process because `allowedRequisites` determined what was allowed between stages. If you made a mistake, you might have to wait a considerable amount of time for the build to fail. Using assertions makes many errors fail at evaluation time and makes moving things around safer and easier to do. - Decoupling from bootstrap tools - The stdenv build process builds as much as it can in the early stages to remove the requirement that the bootstrap tools need bumped in order to bump the stdenv itself. This should lower the barrier to updates and make it easier to bump in the future. It also allows changes to be made without requiring additional tools be added to the bootstrap tools. - Patterned after the Linux stdenv - I tried to follow the patterns established in the Linux stdenv with adaptations made to Darwin’s needs. My hope is this makes the Darwin stdenv more approable for non-Darwin developers who made need to interact with it. It also allowed some of the hacks to be removed. - Documentation - Comments were added explaining what was happening and why things were being done. This is particular important for some stages that might not be obvious (such as the sysctl stage). - Cleanup - Converting the intermediate `allowedRequisites` to assertions revealed that many packages were being referenced that no longer exist or have been renamed. Removing them reduces clutter and should help make the stdenv bootstrap process be more understandable. |
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