From 22d6e31fc6a9de2ee424984e629ccd2e394ba512 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 15:12:54 +0200
Subject: Add a mechanism for derivation attributes to reference the
 derivation's outputs
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For example, you can now say:

  configureFlags = "--prefix=${placeholder "out"} --includedir=${placeholder "dev"}";

The strings returned by the ‘placeholder’ builtin are replaced at
build time by the actual store paths corresponding to the specified
outputs.

Previously, you had to work around the inability to self-reference by doing stuff like:

  preConfigure = ''
    configureFlags+=" --prefix $out --includedir=$dev"
  '';

or rely on ad-hoc variable interpolation semantics in Autoconf or Make
(e.g. --prefix=\$(out)), which doesn't always work.
---
 tests/config.nix      |  2 +-
 tests/local.mk        |  3 ++-
 tests/placeholders.sh | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tests/placeholders.sh

(limited to 'tests')

diff --git a/tests/config.nix b/tests/config.nix
index 6244a15fa48a..76388fdd5b95 100644
--- a/tests/config.nix
+++ b/tests/config.nix
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ rec {
     derivation ({
       inherit system;
       builder = shell;
-      args = ["-e" args.builder];
+      args = ["-e" args.builder or (builtins.toFile "builder.sh" "eval \"$buildCommand\"")];
       PATH = path;
     } // removeAttrs args ["builder" "meta"])
     // { meta = args.meta or {}; };
diff --git a/tests/local.mk b/tests/local.mk
index 1e5439f061e2..2ca52144baee 100644
--- a/tests/local.mk
+++ b/tests/local.mk
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ nix_tests = \
   timeout.sh secure-drv-outputs.sh nix-channel.sh \
   multiple-outputs.sh import-derivation.sh fetchurl.sh optimise-store.sh \
   binary-cache.sh nix-profile.sh repair.sh dump-db.sh case-hack.sh \
-  check-reqs.sh pass-as-file.sh tarball.sh restricted.sh
+  check-reqs.sh pass-as-file.sh tarball.sh restricted.sh \
+  placeholders.sh
   # parallel.sh
 
 install-tests += $(foreach x, $(nix_tests), tests/$(x))
diff --git a/tests/placeholders.sh b/tests/placeholders.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..071cfe2dc893
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/placeholders.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+source common.sh
+
+clearStore
+
+nix-build --no-out-link -E '
+  with import ./config.nix;
+
+  mkDerivation {
+    name = "placeholders";
+    outputs = [ "out" "bin" "dev" ];
+    buildCommand = "
+      echo foo1 > $out
+      echo foo2 > $bin
+      echo foo3 > $dev
+      [[ $(cat ${placeholder "out"}) = foo1 ]]
+      [[ $(cat ${placeholder "bin"}) = foo2 ]]
+      [[ $(cat ${placeholder "dev"}) = foo3 ]]
+    ";
+  }
+'
+
+echo XYZZY
-- 
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