clisp: fails to build on Darwin

[cresh]

Issue description

nix-env -iA texlive with current master of nixpkgs fails with:

building path(s) ‘/nix/store/cwf7i0acg7cw539niy3xvs57y05nakhq-libffcall-2009-05-27’
unpacking sources
unpacking source archive /nix/store/wqhxl08gk85zg8zix47brhnslix38wbw-cvs-export
source root is cvs-export
patching sources
configuring
[...]
building
make flags: SHELL=/nix/store/0v7gmvykijxqpvm730xkg9a1s3rwvq7z-bash-4.3-p46/bin/bash
cd avcall && make all
make[1]: Entering directory '/private/tmp/nix-build-libffcall-2009-05-27.drv-0/cvs-export/avcall'
clang -E `if test true = true; then echo '-DASM_UNDERSCORE'; fi` ./avcall-i386-macro.S | grep -v '^ *#line' | grep -v '^#ident' | grep -v '^#' | sed -e 's,% ,%,g' -e 's,% ,%,g' -e 's,\. ,.,g' > avcall-i386.s
/nix/store/0v7gmvykijxqpvm730xkg9a1s3rwvq7z-bash-4.3-p46/bin/bash ./libtool --mode=compile clang -x none -c avcall-i386.s
 clang -x none -c avcall-i386.s -o avcall-i386.o
avcall-i386.s:7:2: error: instruction requires: Not 64-bit mode
 pushl %ebp
 ^
avcall-i386.s:9:2: error: instruction requires: Not 64-bit mode
 pushl %esi
 ^
avcall-i386.s:10:2: error: instruction requires: Not 64-bit mode
 pushl %ebx
 ^
avcall-i386.s:39:2: error: instruction requires: Not 64-bit mode
 call *%eax
 ^
avcall-i386.s:47:2: error: instruction requires: Not 64-bit mode
 call *%eax
 ^
avcall-i386.s:53:2: error: instruction requires: Not 64-bit mode
 call *%eax
 ^
avcall-i386.s:168:2: error: instruction requires: Not 64-bit mode
 popl %ebx
 ^
avcall-i386.s:169:2: error: instruction requires: Not 64-bit mode
 popl %esi
 ^
avcall-i386.s:171:2: error: instruction requires: Not 64-bit mode
 popl %ebp
 ^
make[1]: *** [Makefile:64: avcall-i386.lo] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/private/tmp/nix-build-libffcall-2009-05-27.drv-0/cvs-export/avcall'
make: *** [Makefile:23: all] Error 2
builder for ‘/nix/store/n4bzbgz30a5sj0qa7q62qy7sy3fcqznc-libffcall-2009-05-27.drv’ failed with exit code 2
cannot build derivation ‘/nix/store/bmgz5pdsnm6jlsbdgy352scl60w9w1pm-clisp-2.49.drv’: 1 dependencies couldn't be built
building path(s) ‘/nix/store/w9h0dl7ir58slw0l2mq6qd7pykf85fxp-libgreek-1.0’
cannot build derivation ‘/nix/store/xyxrfdw92j8bdn4ljpcmrf1923kg6hb1-texlive-xindy.bin-2016.drv’: 1 dependencies couldn't be built
killing process 30404
building path(s) ‘/nix/store/ml2qkjh6bv3w66z6vvxz5vm42n155hlr-lithuanian-2016’
cannot build derivation ‘/nix/store/b115ygfa485ziczm7bpr3d7c2n561yhh-texlive-combined-full-2016.drv’: 1 dependencies couldn't be built
killing process 30460
error: build of ‘/nix/store/b115ygfa485ziczm7bpr3d7c2n561yhh-texlive-combined-full-2016.drv’ failed

Technical details

• System: macOS Sierra (darwin-16.0.0)
• Nix version: nix-env (Nix) 1.11.4
• Nixpkgs version: "17.03pre91637.3afe206"

[LnL7]

I've noticed there are a bunch of issues on darwin related to derivations that try to build things i386 .

[acowley]

This discussion might be relevant.

[vcunat]

Well, this error is due to xindy depending on clisp, which is rather niche stuff in texlive. As a work-around, it's well possible that smaller parts than the full texlive may work. Docs: http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-language-texlive

[cresh]

PR #19800 fixes this.

[joachifm]

Closing in favor of #20062