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gcc: fix implication order in assertion #217977

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In 6812dd9 I mistakenly had the implication order reversed. This commit corrects that mistake.

The original assertion (which is correct) was the following, which asserts that if you enable the GDB plugin, you must enable plugins generally (there is shared infrastructure):

assert enableGdbPlugin -> enablePlugin;

When the option name was changed to disableGdbPlugin, I
incorrectly wrote:

assert disableGdbPlugin -> enablePlugin;

And then again incorrectly wrote:

assert disableGdbPlugin -> !enablePlugin;

This commit uses the correct equivalent for the first statement,
which is the contrapositive:

assert !enablePlugin -> disableGdbPlugin;
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  • Built on platform(s)
    • x86_64-linux
    • aarch64-linux
    • x86_64-darwin
    • aarch64-darwin
  • For non-Linux: Is sandbox = true set in nix.conf? (See Nix manual)
  • Tested, as applicable:
  • 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
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  • Fits CONTRIBUTING.md.

In 6812dd9 I mistakenly had the
implication order reversed.  This commit corrects that mistake.

The original assertion (which is correct) was the following, which
asserts that if you enable the GDB plugin, you must enable plugins
generally (there is shared infrastructure):

```
assert enableGdbPlugin -> enablePlugin;
```

When the option name was changed to `disableGdbPlugin`, I
incorrectly wrote:

```
assert disableGdbPlugin -> enablePlugin;
```

And then again incorrectly wrote:

```
assert disableGdbPlugin -> !enablePlugin;
```

This commit uses the correct equivalent for the first statement,
which is the contrapositive:

```
assert !enablePlugin -> disableGdbPlugin;
```
@ghost ghost requested review from trofi and removed request for matthewbauer February 25, 2023 03:44
@trofi trofi merged commit 504c4fd into NixOS:staging Feb 25, 2023
@ghost ghost deleted the pr/gcc/fix-plugin-order-assertion branch March 7, 2023 09:48
tm-drtina pushed a commit to awakesecurity/nixpkgs that referenced this pull request Apr 27, 2024
 #### Summary

By default, when you type `make`, GCC will compile itself three
times.  This PR inhibits that behavior by configuring GCC with
`--disable-bootstrap`, and reimplements the triple-rebuild using
Nix rather than `make`/`sh`.

 #### Immediate Benefits

- Allow `gcc11` and `gcc12` on `aarch64` (without needing new
  `bootstrapFiles`)
- Faster stdenv rebuilds: the third compilation of gcc
  (i.e. stageCompare) is no longer a `drvInput` of the final stdenv.
  This allows Nix to build stageCompare in parallel with the rest of
  nixpkgs instead of in series.
- No more copying `libgcc_s` out of the bootstrap-files or other
  derivations
- No more Frankenstein compiler: the final gcc and the libraries it
  links against (mpfr, mpc, isl, glibc) are all built by the same
  compiler (xgcc) instead of a mixture of the bootstrapFiles'
  compiler and xgcc.
- No more [static lib{mpfr,mpc,gmp,isl}.a hack]
- Many other small `stdenv` hacks eliminated
- `gcc` and `clang` share the same codepath for more of `cc-wrapper`.

 #### Future Benefits

- This should allow using a [foreign] `bootstrap-files` so long as
  `hostPlatform.canExecute bootstrapFiles`.
- This should allow each of the libraries that ship with `gcc`
  (lib{backtrace, atomic, cc1, decnumber, ffi, gomp, iberty,
  offloadatomic, quadmath, sanitizer, ssp, stdc++-v3, vtv}) to be
  built in separate (one-liner) derivations which `inherit src;`
  from `gcc`, much like NixOS#132343

 #### Incorporates

- NixOS#210004
- NixOS#36948 (unreverted)
- NixOS#210325
- NixOS#210118
- NixOS#210132
- NixOS#210109
- NixOS#213909
- NixOS#216136
- NixOS#216237
- NixOS#210019
- NixOS#216232
- NixOS#216016
- NixOS#217977
- NixOS#217995

 #### Closes

- Closes NixOS#108305
- Closes NixOS#108111
- Closes NixOS#201254
- Closes NixOS#208412

 #### Credits

This project was made possible by three important insights, none of
which were mine:

1. @Ericson2314 was the first to advocate for this change, and
   probably the first to appreciate its advantages.  Nix-driven
   (external) bootstrap is "cross by default".

2. @trofi has figured out a lot about how to get gcc to not mix up
   the copy of `libstdc++` that it depends on with the copy that it
   builds, by moving the `bootstrapFiles`' `libstdc++` into a
   [versioned directory].  This allows a Nix-driven bootstrap of gcc
   without the final gcc would still having references to the
   `bootstrapFiles`.

3. Using the undocumented variable [`user-defined-trusted-dirs`]
   when building glibc.  When glibc `dlopen()`s `libgcc_s.so`, it
   uses a completely different and totally special set of rules for
   finding `libgcc_s.so`.  This trick is the only way we can put
   `libgcc_s.so` in its own separate outpath without creating
   circular dependencies or dependencies on the bootstrapFiles.  I
   would never have guessed to use this (or that it existed!) if it
   were not for a [comment in guix] which @Mic92 [mentioned].

My own role in this PR was basically: being available to go on a
coding binge at an opportune moment, so we wouldn't waste a
[crisis].

[aarch64-compare-ofborg]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/209870/checks?check_run_id=10662822938
[amd64-compare-ofborg]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/209870/checks?check_run_id=10662825857
[nonexistent sysroot]: NixOS#210004
[versioned directory]: NixOS#209054
[`user-defined-trusted-dirs`]: https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/libc-help/2013-11/msg00026.html
[comment in guix]: https://github.com/guix-mirror/guix/blob/5e4ec8218142eee8e6e148e787381a5ef891c5b1/gnu/packages/gcc.scm#L253
[mentioned]: NixOS#210112 (comment)
[crisis]: NixOS#108305
[foreign]: NixOS#170857 (comment)
[static lib{mpfr,mpc,gmp,isl}.a hack]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/2f1948af9c984ebb82dfd618e67dc949755823e2/pkgs/stdenv/linux/default.nix#L380
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