Refactor texinfo and update 7.0.3 -> 7.1

[afh]

ℹ️ This draft PR is my understanding of how the texinfo package could be improved based off @AndersonTorres' comment on #262276 and work on nv-codec-headers (see #287918).

texinfo 7.0.3 -> 7.1

Diff: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/texinfo.git/diff/?id=texinfo-7.0.3&id2=texinfo-7.1

Changelog: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/texinfo.git/tree/ChangeLog?h=texinfo-7.1

TODO

• If this PR is headed in the right direction and people see value in pursuing this approach close texinfo: 7.0.3 -> 7.1 #262276 in favour of this one.

Description of changes

• Modernize texinfo/4.13a.nix by using finalAttrs and hash
• I decided not to refactor texinfo/4.13a.nix into texinfo/default.nix (see below) as it shares no common attributes with the other texinfo versions apart from meta
• Modernize texinfo/common.nix by removing top-level with lib, using hash, and adding meta.mainProgram
• Fix texinfo/common.nix by adding missing libiconv input
• Refactor individual texinfo version-specific nix files into generic texinfo/default.nix and
• Rename texinfo version packages to fit with nixpkgs Package naming convention, e.g. texinfo6_5 -> texinfo_6_5.
• Adapt all-packages.nix according to the changes above
• Replace texinfo_7_0 with texinfo_7_1
• Default to texinfo_7_1

Things I kindly request feedback on

• At first glance it seems no package specifically requires texinfo 7.0.3, therefore I assume 7.0.3 can be replaced with 7.1. If ofborg tests pass are people on board with this or should the texinfo 7.0.3 package continue to exist in nixpkgs?
• Is there a better way to manage the meta attributes?
• Do folks agree that the mainProgram should indeed be texi2any?
• This PR retains the texinfo[4567] names, yet this PR seems also like a good opportunity to either rename or remove them and change all dependent package.
• Should the way packages refer to a specific texinfo version be unified?
  If yes, which of the following existing appraoches is then preferred? Ⓐ or Ⓑ?

Ⓐ The following packages reference a texinfo version specific package directly:

• allegro (texinfo 6.5)
• gcc48 (texinfo5, i.e. texinfo 5.2)
• ne (texinfo6, i.e. texinfo 6.8)
• singular (texinfo4, i.e. texinfo 4.13a)
• eukleides (texinfo4, i.e. texinfo 4.13a)

Ⓑ whereas the following packages have a texinfo input, which is set to a specific texinfo version in all-packages.nix:

• fwknop (texinfo 6.7)
• mitscheme (texinfo6, i.e texinfo 6.8)
• gpm (texinfo 6.7)
• iksemel (texinfo 6.7)

Things done

• Built on platform(s)
  • x86_64-linux
  • aarch64-linux
  • x86_64-darwin
  • aarch64-darwin
• For non-Linux: Is sandboxing enabled in nix.conf? (See Nix manual)
  • sandbox = relaxed
  • sandbox = true
• Tested, as applicable:
  • NixOS test(s) (look inside nixos/tests)
  • and/or package tests
  • or, for functions and "core" functionality, tests in lib/tests or pkgs/test
  • made sure NixOS tests are linked to the relevant packages
• Tested compilation of all packages that depend on this change using nix-shell -p nixpkgs-review --run "nixpkgs-review rev HEAD". Note: all changes have to be committed, also see nixpkgs-review usage
• Tested basic functionality of all binary files (usually in ./result/bin/)
• 24.05 Release Notes (or backporting 23.05 and 23.11 Release notes)
  • (Package updates) Added a release notes entry if the change is major or breaking
  • (Module updates) Added a release notes entry if the change is significant
  • (Module addition) Added a release notes entry if adding a new NixOS module
• Fits CONTRIBUTING.md.

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[afh]

ℹ️ texinfo, texinfo.passthru.tests on x86_64-darwin and aarch64-darwin failed due to:
error: building of '/nix/store/0d8bgk9p6rrmpd420h1gbxjnkmm92xrr-llvm-16.0.6.drv!dev' from .drv file timed out after 3600 seconds

[nixos-discourse]

This pull request has been mentioned on NixOS Discourse. There might be relevant details there:

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/prs-ready-for-review/3032/3468

[afh]

Friendly ping on this, @AndersonTorres, with a polite request for comments on the "Things I kindly request feedback on" in the initial PR comment/description 🙂

[afh]

Friendly ping to current reviewers on this 🙂
@gebner @cpages @prusnak @adevress @7c6f434c @bjornfor @amiloradovsky @oxij @AndersonTorres

[afh]

Thanks for merging, @7c6f434c, very, very much appreciated! I thought this PR might never see the light of day 🥲

[trofi]

Bisect says 0626ef8 texinfo: refactor broke ffmpeg_4 build on staging as:

$ nix build --no-link -f. ffmpeg_4
...
HTML    doc/ffplay.html
makeinfo: error parsing ./doc/t2h.pm: Undefined subroutine &Texinfo::Config::set_from_init_file called at ./doc/t2h.pm line 24.

[reckenrode]

Bisect says 0626ef8 texinfo: refactor broke ffmpeg_4 build on staging as:

$ nix build --no-link -f. ffmpeg_4
...
HTML    doc/ffplay.html
makeinfo: error parsing ./doc/t2h.pm: Undefined subroutine &Texinfo::Config::set_from_init_file called at ./doc/t2h.pm line 24.

I’m also seeing this error building zsh on staging.

make[1]: Entering directory '/private/tmp/nix-build-zsh-5.9.drv-0/zsh-5.9/Doc'
d=`echo 'May 14, 2022'`; \
v="<font size=\"-1\">Zsh version 5.9, released on $d.</font>"; \
case 'texi2any -c TEXI2HTML=1' in \
  *texi2any*) echo "set_from_init_file('PRE_BODY_CLOSE','$v');" ;; \
  *) echo "\$PRE_BODY_CLOSE = '$v';" ;; \
esac > texi2html.conf
texi2any -c TEXI2HTML=1 --output . --ifinfo --split=chapter --node-files \
             --init-file texi2html.conf ./zsh.texi
texi2any: error parsing ./texi2html.conf: Undefined subroutine &Texinfo::Config::set_from_init_file called at ./texi2html.conf line 1.
make[1]: *** [Makefile:320: zsh_toc.html] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/private/tmp/nix-build-zsh-5.9.drv-0/zsh-5.9/Doc'

[afh]

Thanks for chiming in on this, @reckenrode, any hint is helpful!

I'm looking at zsh's configure.ac, which might be related…

[afh]

This email thread on texinfo mailing list might provide some helpful insights.

[afh]

For ffmpeg a patch exist (0005-Patch-up-t2h-for-texinfo-7.1.patch), @trofi would be able and willing to give that patch a try?

[reckenrode]

Thanks for chiming in on this, @reckenrode, any hint is helpful!

I'm looking at zsh's configure.ac, which might be related…

Thanks. I opened #324900 with a fix.

[trofi]

For ffmpeg a patch exist (0005-Patch-up-t2h-for-texinfo-7.1.patch), @trofi would be able and willing to give that patch a try?

Does not apply to ffmpeg_4::

ffmpeg> Running phase: patchPhase
ffmpeg> applying patch /nix/store/92a8fs5ab27v7fkvh57rib7jwbmm4fjy-texinfo-7.1.patch
ffmpeg> patching file doc/t2h.pm
ffmpeg> Hunk #3 FAILED at 127.
ffmpeg> Hunk #4 FAILED at 193.

[afh]

@reckenrode thanks for the zsh fix, and glad to see it already got merged.

Thanks for giving the patch a try, too bad it fails. I'll dig deeper and will report back with any findings.

[afh]

A quick update for folks following the conversation here:
My investigation into the matter shows that the update from texinfo 7.0 to 7.1 broke the ffmpeg_4 build and the fix proposed in #326249 addresses the issue.

Feel free to comment, test, double-check the changes proposed in #326249 🙂
The more eyes we get on this the surer we can be that a default texinfo of version 7.1 in nixpkgs will be stable by the time of the next release.

[jue89]

e6f9072 broke cross-compiling for Raspberry Pi:

jue@baxxter ~/P/nixpi-node> nix build github:NixOS/nixpkgs/e6f90729d2a9cef030b48b58fad9180b134d2796#pkgsCross.raspberryPi.texinfoInteractive
error: builder for '/nix/store/y4dk6a45ry58a02g5qxgqf6kh2l1kqm9-texinfo-interactive-armv6l-unknown-linux-gnueabihf-7.1.drv' failed with exit code 1;
       last 10 log lines:
       > checking whether the compiler supports the __inline keyword... yes
       > checking for pthread_rwlock_t... yes
       > checking whether pthread_rwlock_rdlock prefers a writer to a reader... guessing no
       > checking for nl_langinfo... yes
       > checking whether YESEXPR works... guessing yes
       > checking whether wcrtomb works in the C locale... guessing yes
       > checking whether wcrtomb return value is correct... guessing yes
       > checking whether iconv converts EUC-CN to UTF-8... configure: error: in `/build/texinfo-7.1':
       > configure: error: cannot run test program while cross compiling
       > See `config.log' for more details
       For full logs, run 'nix log /nix/store/y4dk6a45ry58a02g5qxgqf6kh2l1kqm9-texinfo-interactive-armv6l-unknown-linux-gnueabihf-7.1.drv'.

Is this a problem to be reported upstream? Or can we fix this ourselves?

[afh]

Thanks for bringing this to my attention, @jue89, much appreciated!

❓ Is this the merged fix 1e07a3b from #326249 already available in your Raspberry Pi build environment?

[afh]

Oh wait, your building texinfo itself and not ffmpeg… 🤔

[afh]

Can you post a link to a complete log, please?

[jue89]

Can you post a link to a complete log, please?

Sure!

jue@baxxter ~/P/nixpi-node> nix log /nix/store/y4dk6a45ry58a02g5qxgqf6kh2l1kqm9-texinfo-interactive-armv6l-unknown-linux-gnueabihf-7.1.drv
warning: The interpretation of store paths arguments ending in `.drv` recently changed. If this command is now failing try again with '/nix/store/y4dk6a45ry58a02g5qxgqf6kh2l1kqm9-texinfo-interactive-armv6l-unknown-linux-gnueabihf-7.1.drv^*'
@nix { "action": "setPhase", "phase": "unpackPhase" }
Running phase: unpackPhase
unpacking source archive /nix/store/4y7w69wfavkdfnl2gpzvm3xs969cw418-texinfo-7.1.tar.xz
source root is texinfo-7.1
setting SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH to timestamp 1697635779 of file texinfo-7.1/po_document/uk.gmo
@nix { "action": "setPhase", "phase": "patchPhase" }
Running phase: patchPhase
applying patch /nix/store/dnzx3qs20sivfmy7swl1grjzmpz2b9f7-cross-tools-flags.patch
patching file configure
Hunk #1 succeeded at 36771 (offset 13490 lines).
patching script interpreter paths in tp/maintain
tp/maintain/all_tests.sh: interpreter directive changed from "#! /bin/sh" to "/nix/store/0xrld91hp7amy0fypkabsd2gbllnj7bw-bash-5.2p26/bin/sh"
tp/maintain/change_perl_modules_version.sh: interpreter directive changed from "#! /bin/sh" to "/nix/store/0xrld91hp7amy0fypkabsd2gbllnj7bw-bash-5.2p26/bin/sh"
tp/maintain/regenerate_file_lists.pl: interpreter directive changed from "#! /usr/bin/env perl" to "/nix/store/kn8z6dp100c057qcif81mvcj2ydcbmy7-perl-5.38.2/bin/perl"
tp/maintain/lib/libintl-perl/lib/Locale/Messages.pm: interpreter directive changed from "#! /bin/false" to "false"
tp/maintain/lib/libintl-perl/lib/Locale/gettext_pp.pm: interpreter directive changed from "#! /bin/false" to "false"
tp/maintain/lib/libintl-perl/lib/Locale/gettext_dumb.pm: interpreter directive changed from "#! /bin/false" to "false"
tp/maintain/lib/libintl-perl/lib/Locale/TextDomain.pm: interpreter directive changed from "#! /bin/false" to "false"
tp/maintain/lib/libintl-perl/lib/Locale/gettext_xs.pod: interpreter directive changed from "#! /bin/false" to "false"
tp/maintain/lib/libintl-perl/test.pl: interpreter directive changed from "#! /usr/local/bin/perl -w" to "/nix/store/kn8z6dp100c057qcif81mvcj2ydcbmy7-perl-5.38.2/bin/perl -w"
tp/maintain/regenerate_docstr.sh: interpreter directive changed from "#! /bin/sh" to "/nix/store/0xrld91hp7amy0fypkabsd2gbllnj7bw-bash-5.2p26/bin/sh"
tp/maintain/regenerate_documentlanguages-iana.pl: interpreter directive changed from "#! /usr/bin/env perl" to "/nix/store/kn8z6dp100c057qcif81mvcj2ydcbmy7-perl-5.38.2/bin/perl"
tp/maintain/regenerate_converters_documentation.sh: interpreter directive changed from "#! /bin/sh" to "/nix/store/0xrld91hp7amy0fypkabsd2gbllnj7bw-bash-5.2p26/bin/sh"
tp/maintain/regenerate_cmd_tests.sh: interpreter directive changed from "#! /bin/sh" to "/nix/store/0xrld91hp7amy0fypkabsd2gbllnj7bw-bash-5.2p26/bin/sh"
tp/maintain/regenerate_documentlanguages-loc.pl: interpreter directive changed from "#! /usr/bin/env perl" to "/nix/store/kn8z6dp100c057qcif81mvcj2ydcbmy7-perl-5.38.2/bin/perl"
tp/maintain/copy_change_file_name_encoding.pl: interpreter directive changed from "#! /usr/bin/env perl" to "/nix/store/kn8z6dp100c057qcif81mvcj2ydcbmy7-perl-5.38.2/bin/perl"
tp/maintain/regenerate_commands_perl_info.pl: interpreter directive changed from "#! /usr/bin/env perl" to "/nix/store/kn8z6dp100c057qcif81mvcj2ydcbmy7-perl-5.38.2/bin/perl"
@nix { "action": "setPhase", "phase": "updateAutotoolsGnuConfigScriptsPhase" }
Running phase: updateAutotoolsGnuConfigScriptsPhase
Updating Autotools / GNU config script to a newer upstream version: ./tp/Texinfo/XS/config.sub
Updating Autotools / GNU config script to a newer upstream version: ./build-aux/config.sub
Updating Autotools / GNU config script to a newer upstream version: ./tp/Texinfo/XS/config.guess
Updating Autotools / GNU config script to a newer upstream version: ./build-aux/config.guess
@nix { "action": "setPhase", "phase": "updateAutotoolsGnuConfigScriptsPhase" }
Running phase: updateAutotoolsGnuConfigScriptsPhase
Updating Autotools / GNU config script to a newer upstream version: ./tp/Texinfo/XS/config.sub
Updating Autotools / GNU config script to a newer upstream version: ./build-aux/config.sub
Updating Autotools / GNU config script to a newer upstream version: ./tp/Texinfo/XS/config.guess
Updating Autotools / GNU config script to a newer upstream version: ./build-aux/config.guess
@nix { "action": "setPhase", "phase": "updateAutotoolsGnuConfigScriptsPhase" }
Running phase: updateAutotoolsGnuConfigScriptsPhase
Updating Autotools / GNU config script to a newer upstream version: ./tp/Texinfo/XS/config.sub
Updating Autotools / GNU config script to a newer upstream version: ./build-aux/config.sub
Updating Autotools / GNU config script to a newer upstream version: ./tp/Texinfo/XS/config.guess
Updating Autotools / GNU config script to a newer upstream version: ./build-aux/config.guess
@nix { "action": "setPhase", "phase": "configurePhase" }
Running phase: configurePhase
fixing libtool script ./tp/Texinfo/XS/ltmain.sh
./tp/Texinfo/XS/configure
patching script interpreter paths in ./configure
./configure: interpreter directive changed from "#! /bin/sh" to "/nix/store/0xrld91hp7amy0fypkabsd2gbllnj7bw-bash-5.2p26/bin/sh"
configure flags: --disable-dependency-tracking --prefix=/nix/store/d3kj5fbcb53cfgl2411hyhifavgbbxqc-texinfo-interactive-armv6l-unknown-linux-gnueabihf-7.1 PERL=/nix/store/kn8z6dp100c057qcif81mvcj2ydcbmy7-perl-5.38.2/bin/perl --enable-perl-xs=no TI_AWK=/nix/store/svjqna3573gjchcrvdq5fygmi5jpkq3n-gawk-armv6l-unknown-linux-gnueabihf-5.2.2/bin/awk --build=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu --host=armv6l-unknown-linux-gnueabihf
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /nix/store/ml26aj8bfyz8qhdk62g68zfbp01vqmcd-coreutils-9.5/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for armv6l-unknown-linux-gnueabihf-strip... armv6l-unknown-linux-gnueabihf-strip
checking for a race-free mkdir -p... /nix/store/ml26aj8bfyz8qhdk62g68zfbp01vqmcd-coreutils-9.5/bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking whether UID '1000' is supported by ustar format... yes
checking whether GID '100' is supported by ustar format... yes
checking how to create a ustar tar archive... gnutar
checking for perl... /nix/store/kn8z6dp100c057qcif81mvcj2ydcbmy7-perl-5.38.2/bin/perl
checking Perl version and modules... yes
checking Unicode::Collate... yes
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checking for armv6l-unknown-linux-gnueabihf-gcc... armv6l-unknown-linux-gnueabihf-gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
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checking whether armv6l-unknown-linux-gnueabihf-gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for armv6l-unknown-linux-gnueabihf-gcc option to enable C11 features... none needed
checking whether armv6l-unknown-linux-gnueabihf-gcc understands -c and -o together... yes
checking whether the compiler is clang... no
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checking whether make supports the include directive... yes (GNU style)
checking dependency style of armv6l-unknown-linux-gnueabihf-gcc... none
checking for stdio.h... yes
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checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for wchar.h... yes
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checking whether it is safe to define __EXTENSIONS__... yes
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checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... armv6l-unknown-linux-gnueabihf
checking how to run the C preprocessor... armv6l-unknown-linux-gnueabihf-gcc -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /nix/store/5v3nx7ra6knlhn4mzvgph5ggkpisc6il-gnugrep-3.11/bin/grep
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checking for Minix Amsterdam compiler... no
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checking whether the preprocessor supports include_next... yes
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checking whether mbrtowc stores incomplete characters... guessing no
checking whether mbrtowc works on empty input... guessing no
checking whether the C locale is free of encoding errors... guessing no
checking whether btowc(0) is correct... guessing yes
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checking whether the C locale is free of encoding errors... (cached) guessing no
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checking whether iconv converts EUC-CN to UTF-8... configure: error: in `/build/texinfo-7.1':
configure: error: cannot run test program while cross compiling
See `config.log' for more details

[afh]

Thanks, @jue89, that's helpful I'll have a closer look.

I'd like to suggest to attach larger files via drag and drop, as that makes consuming them much easier, or is there another way than just copy and pasting the text? 🙂

[afh]

Could you nix build texinfo with the --keep-failed option and attach config.log here?

Also I'm struggling a bit with my own raspberry pi nixos setup (more specifically garbled serial console output), would you be willing to answer a few question and if yes, what would be your preferred means of communications?

[reckenrode]

configure: error: cannot run test program while cross compiling

The configure script appears to be trying to test for something on the target platform. Does setting texinfo_cv_sys_iconv_converts_euc_cn=yes in configureFlags when cross-compiling allow the build to succeed?

[jue89]

Could you nix build texinfo with the --keep-failed option and attach config.log here?

Here you go: config.log

[jue89]

Also I'm struggling a bit with my own raspberry pi nixos setup (more specifically garbled serial console output), would you be willing to answer a few question and if yes, what would be your preferred means of communications?

Sure, I'd love to help you debugging this.
Are you at matrix? You can contact me here: @jue89:matrix.org
Otherwise mail would be fine, too: [email protected]

[jue89]

The configure script appears to be trying to test for something on the target platform. Does setting texinfo_cv_sys_iconv_converts_euc_cn=yes in configureFlags when cross-compiling allow the build to succeed?

Indeed! This seems to work! I guess it's time for a follow-up PR?

jue@baxxter ~/P/nixpkgs ((3ddf4322))> git diff
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/texinfo/common.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/texinfo/common.nix
index 9b5959d40e47..99a5d2858e27 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/texinfo/common.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/texinfo/common.nix
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     ++ optionals crossBuildTools [
       "--enable-perl-xs=no"
       "TI_AWK=${getBin gawk}/bin/awk"
+      "texinfo_cv_sys_iconv_converts_euc_cn=yes"
     ]
     ++ optional stdenv.isSunOS "AWK=${gawk}/bin/awk";

[afh]

Seems like @NickCao has a PR out already 😄

Mind doing a nix run .#nixpkgs-view -- --post-result 328919 on your Raspberry Pi, @jue89 ?

[afh]

Also thanks to you, @reckenrode, for proposing a working fix. 👍

[jue89]

Seems like @NickCao has a PR out already 😄

Mind doing a nix run .#nixpkgs-view -- --post-result 328919 on your Raspberry Pi, @jue89 ?

I'm sorry, currently cross-compiled RaspberryPi images are broken.
But I'm able to compile and can verify that created ELFs are working with some help from QEMU.