Postgrest fails to build on aarch64-darwin using nixpkgs

[axeltlarsson]

Environment

• PostgreSQL version: 12.11
• PostgREST version: 9.0.1
• Operating system: macOS 12.5

Description of issue

Refuses to evaluate as it's marked as broken, due to 'configurator-pg-0.2.5' is marked as broken. Forcing the build does seem to confirm that configurator-pg is indeed broken unfortunately.

Also tried to build postgrest locally on my aarch64-darwin, with nix-build -A postgrestPackage but failed with:

error: builder for '/nix/store/1ivg35hg69v2fzx3mwwh59w78d2csary-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-stage-final-gcc-debug-11.2.0.drv' failed with exit code 2;
       last 10 log lines:
       > checking that generated files are newer than configure... done
       > configure: error: conditional "ENABLE_DARWIN_AT_RPATH" was never defined.
       > Usually this means the macro was only invoked conditionally.
       > make[1]: *** [Makefile:16550: configure-target-libatomic] Error 1
       > checking that generated files are newer than configure... done
       > configure: error: conditional "ENABLE_DARWIN_AT_RPATH" was never defined.
       > Usually this means the macro was only invoked conditionally.
       > make[1]: *** [Makefile:15634: configure-target-libgomp] Error 1
       > make[1]: Leaving directory '/private/tmp/nix-build-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-stage-final-gcc-debug-11.2.0.drv-0/build'
       > make: *** [Makefile:974: all] Error 2
       For full logs, run 'nix log /nix/store/1ivg35hg69v2fzx3mwwh59w78d2csary-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-stage-final-gcc-debug-11.2.0.drv'.
error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/kwcs9794l9vhjpzxhjqc643q9wzkqc5r-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-stage-final-gcc-debug-wrapper-11.2.0.drv' failed to build
error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/bsw00biz4vy0zn4ycqdr6kblvx24wsl4-stdenv-darwin.drv' failed to build
error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/9ps339zkx80r2f1kxsj8q0b1470zzwrp-hello-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-2.12.drv' failed to build

😔

Thanks for wonderful software regardless and any ideas/advice to fix/work around this are most welcome.

[steve-chavez]

@robx Would it be possible to fix configurator-pg for aarch64-darwin?

[robx]

@steve-chavez
Where do you see that configurator-pg is broken on aarch64-darwin? I doubt that's the case, but if it is, could you file a bug report at https://github.com/robx/configurator-pg/issues.

@axeltlarsson
The first issue you describe seems to be building within nixpkgs proper? In that case I'd rather consider it an issue with https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs. (Though fixing that will likely need to wait for an updated PostgREST release from our side, to bring in the aeson-2 change, from here #2288. @steve-chavez is such a release in sight?)

For the second issue you describe, which PostgREST version are you trying to build? Is this a recent git checkout? I'm afraid I don't really understand what's going wrong, but it seems like there's something fundamental wrong with the nixpkgs setup. Might be that updating the nixpkgs version in nix/nixpkgs-version.nix helps?

[robx]

See also NixOS/nixpkgs#137877. I have no idea why a cross-compiling gcc would be used, though.

[steve-chavez]

Where do you see that configurator-pg is broken on aarch64-darwin?

@robx Sorry, really I have no idea how nixpkgs works there.

is such a release in sight?

Yes, v10 should be released this week. Once #2419 and #2414 are merged.

[axeltlarsson]

@robx You're correct, pg-configurator is not the issue, it is not marked broken, and builds just fine. I thought I'd updated my local channel for nix-shell, but apparently that failed silently as nix-channel --list was empty (sudo needed for whatever reason, unrelated issue) 🤦 . So it only used to be marked broken, I suppose fixed in NixOS/nixpkgs#181110
Apologies for the confusion.

In a recent nixkgs local checkout, I can successfully do nix-build -A haskellPackages.configurator-pg, but nix-build -a haskellPackages.postgrest is still marked broken, and forcing a build fails with:

Configuring postgrest-9.0.1...

Setup: Encountered missing or private dependencies:
aeson >=1.4.7 && <1.6,
hasql >=1.4 && <1.5,
hasql-dynamic-statements ==0.3.1,
jose >=0.8.1 && <0.9,
swagger2 >=2.4 && <2.7

error: builder for '/nix/store/xrj0q2xm1r6s6bqb9zd2idsmqqdd94za-postgrest-9.0.1.drv' failed with exit code 1;
       last 10 log lines:
       > Using Parsec parser
       > Configuring postgrest-9.0.1...
       >
       > Setup: Encountered missing or private dependencies:
       > aeson >=1.4.7 && <1.6,
       > hasql >=1.4 && <1.5,
       > hasql-dynamic-statements ==0.3.1,
       > jose >=0.8.1 && <0.9,
       > swagger2 >=2.4 && <2.7
       >
       For full logs, run 'nix log /nix/store/xrj0q2xm1r6s6bqb9zd2idsmqqdd94za-postgrest-9.0.1.drv'.

But that issue seems like it might be resolved with version 10 of postgrest? 🤞

[wolfgangwalther]

Yes, v10 should be released this week. Once #2419 and #2414 are merged.

That's, again, a very quick process. #2419 is quite a major feature, so it would be good to give a little bit of time to make sure it doesn't break anything unexpectedly.

[axeltlarsson]

I just tried bulding it locally again and now it works fine!
Regarding getting into it into nixpkgs, I suppose it first needs to be updated to hackage?

[axeltlarsson]

Fixed now.