ifcopenshell build is broken

[autra]

Describe the bug

The build of ifcopenshell is broken, see https://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixpkgs/trunk/ifcopenshell.aarch64-linux

Steps To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. nix-env -iA ifcopenshell

fails.

The current error (but I have already fixed this one):

CMake Error at /build/source/src/svgfill/CMakeLists.txt:53 (message):
  Unable to find GMP library files, aborting

Expected behavior

The build is downloaded from cache.nixos.org OR it compiles successfully

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Metadata

Please run nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m" and paste the result.

- system: `"x86_64-linux"`
 - host os: `Linux 6.1.87, NixOS, 23.11 (Tapir), 23.11.20240424.dd37924`
 - multi-user?: `yes`
 - sandbox: `yes`
 - version: `nix-env (Nix) 2.18.1`
 - nixpkgs: `/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos`

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[autra]

(note: I've already made some progress, so I'm opening a draft MR right away)

[autra]

To give a bit of context, I need ifc support in freecad and that needs ifcopenshell. I see that ifcopenshell is more or less considered as a python package (the derivation is wrapped in a buildPythonPackage. As I actually want the .so at the end, will this be a problem for me later?

But first, I need to fix the build. I've made progress, adding some missing deps:

• libgmp
• libmpfr
• cgal (I need to check why I needed this one)

I might have a problem with the linker needing -libstdc++ flag, but I see this error only when the number of jobs is > 1. I'll see this later.

The error I'm currently facing with make -j1 is with libhdf5:

• build with hdf5 disabled is currently broken upstream. I'm considering opening a PR with the suggested change and adding a patch in the build process for this
• that being said, it'd be nice to be able to build it with hdf5 support! I'm currently working on this (more exactly, trying to work around ifcopenshell assumptions about lib structure)

At the end, what is the best practice considering build options? Should I create withFoo boolean args for the derivation? Or should we activate all that we can by default?

Thanks!

[autra]

For reference: IfcOpenShell/IfcOpenShell#1759 (it's not the only issue about this hdf5 problem, just the one I found most relevant apart from the one above).