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authorNiklas Hambüchen <mail@nh2.me>2019-07-03T00·47+0200
committerNiklas Hambüchen <mail@nh2.me>2019-07-03T02·32+0200
commita96006d97fc87c5073f9a39db841625bdb7c401c (patch)
tree1065d79a490f94e52be3871e07ea3ed65ccaf588
parentd203c554faa00fec55377d6640c8fb335a611a09 (diff)
Get BOOST_LDFLAGS from autoconf, fix Ubuntu 16.04 build.
Our use of boost::coroutine2 depends on -lboost_context,
which in turn depends on `-lboost_thread`, which in turn depends
on `-lboost_system`.

I suspect that this builds on nix only because of low-level hacks
like NIX_LDFLAGS.

This commit passes the proper linker flags, thus fixing bootstrap
builds on non-nix distributions like Ubuntu 16.04.

With these changes, I can build Nix on Ubuntu 16.04 using:

    ./bootstrap.sh
    ./configure --prefix=$HOME/editline-prefix \
      --disable-doc-gen \
      CXX=g++-7 \
      --with-boost=$HOME/boost-prefix \
      EDITLINE_CFLAGS=-I$HOME/editline-prefix/include \
      EDITLINE_LIBS=-leditline \
      LDFLAGS=-L$HOME/editline-prefix/lib
    make

where

* g++-7 comes from gcc-7 from
  https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-toolchain-r/+archive/ubuntu/test,
* editline 1.14 from https://github.com/troglobit/editline/releases/tag/1.14.0
	was installed into `$HOME/editline-prefix`
  (because Ubuntu 16.04's `editline` is too old to have the function nix uses),
* boost 1.66 from
	https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_66_0/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html
	was installed into $HOME/boost-prefix (because Ubuntu 16.04 only has 1.58)
-rw-r--r--Makefile.config.in1
-rw-r--r--configure.ac3
-rw-r--r--src/libutil/local.mk2
-rw-r--r--src/nix/local.mk2
4 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Makefile.config.in b/Makefile.config.in
index 936a4f4039d0..7e3b35b98196 100644
--- a/Makefile.config.in
+++ b/Makefile.config.in
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ LDFLAGS = @LDFLAGS@
 ENABLE_S3 = @ENABLE_S3@
 HAVE_SODIUM = @HAVE_SODIUM@
 HAVE_SECCOMP = @HAVE_SECCOMP@
+BOOST_LDFLAGS = @BOOST_LDFLAGS@
 LIBCURL_LIBS = @LIBCURL_LIBS@
 OPENSSL_LIBS = @OPENSSL_LIBS@
 PACKAGE_NAME = @PACKAGE_NAME@
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 571bb54d8a18..a52830b3835f 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -153,6 +153,9 @@ AC_SUBST(storedir)
 # and CPPFLAGS are not passed to the C++ compiler automatically.
 # Thus we append the returned CPPFLAGS to the CXXFLAGS here.
 AX_BOOST_BASE([1.66], [CXXFLAGS="$BOOST_CPPFLAGS $CXXFLAGS"], [AC_MSG_ERROR([Nix requires boost.])])
+# For unknown reasons, setting this directly in the ACTION-IF-FOUND above
+# ends up with LDFLAGS being empty, so we set it afterwards.
+LDFLAGS="$BOOST_LDFLAGS $LDFLAGS"
 
 
 # Look for OpenSSL, a required dependency.
diff --git a/src/libutil/local.mk b/src/libutil/local.mk
index 3ccc23fd5c1b..e41a67d1f9e1 100644
--- a/src/libutil/local.mk
+++ b/src/libutil/local.mk
@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@ libutil_DIR := $(d)
 
 libutil_SOURCES := $(wildcard $(d)/*.cc)
 
-libutil_LDFLAGS = $(LIBLZMA_LIBS) -lbz2 -pthread $(OPENSSL_LIBS) $(LIBBROTLI_LIBS) -lboost_context
+libutil_LDFLAGS = $(LIBLZMA_LIBS) -lbz2 -pthread $(OPENSSL_LIBS) $(LIBBROTLI_LIBS) $(BOOST_LDFLAGS) -lboost_context
diff --git a/src/nix/local.mk b/src/nix/local.mk
index ca4604d566c3..c09efd1fc895 100644
--- a/src/nix/local.mk
+++ b/src/nix/local.mk
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ nix_SOURCES := \
 
 nix_LIBS = libexpr libmain libstore libutil
 
-nix_LDFLAGS = -pthread $(SODIUM_LIBS) $(EDITLINE_LIBS)
+nix_LDFLAGS = -pthread $(SODIUM_LIBS) $(EDITLINE_LIBS) $(BOOST_LDFLAGS) -lboost_context -lboost_thread -lboost_system
 
 $(foreach name, \
   nix-build nix-channel nix-collect-garbage nix-copy-closure nix-daemon nix-env nix-hash nix-instantiate nix-prefetch-url nix-shell nix-store, \