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guix: mount the macOS SDK at a fixed path in the container #7774

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4 changes: 4 additions & 0 deletions contrib/guix/README.md
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Expand Up @@ -251,6 +251,10 @@ details.
the actual SDK (e.g. `SDK_PATH=$HOME/Downloads/macOS-SDKs` instead of
`$HOME/Downloads/macOS-SDKs/Xcode-26.1.1-17B100-extracted-SDK-with-libcxx-headers`).

Where you keep the SDK does not affect the build outputs: the directory is
mounted at a fixed path inside the container. Its contents still have to match
what other builders use, as before.

The path that this environment variable points to **must be a directory**, and
**NOT a symlink to a directory**.

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21 changes: 19 additions & 2 deletions contrib/guix/guix-build
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Expand Up @@ -137,6 +137,7 @@ for host in $HOSTS; do
OSX_SDK="$(make -C "${PWD}/depends" --no-print-directory HOST="$host" print-OSX_SDK | sed 's@^[^=]\+=@@g')"
if [ -e "$OSX_SDK" ]; then
echo "Found macOS SDK at '${OSX_SDK}', using..."
HOST_SDK_PATH="$(make -C "${PWD}/depends" --no-print-directory HOST="$host" print-SDK_PATH | sed 's@^[^=]\+=@@g')"
break
else
echo "macOS SDK does not exist at '${OSX_SDK}', please place the extracted, untarred SDK there to perform darwin builds, or define SDK_PATH environment variable. Exiting..."
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# make the downloaded depends sources available to it. The sources
# should have been downloaded prior to this invocation.
#
# ${HOST_SDK_PATH:+--share="$HOST_SDK_PATH"=/macos-sdk}
#
# maps the directory holding the extracted macOS SDK
# to /macos-sdk inside the isolated container
#
# For the same reason we map $PWD to a fixed path: the SDK's location
# on the build host would otherwise be a source of irreproducibility.
# depends passes it to the compiler as -isysroot, so it reaches the
# outputs, and builders who keep their SDK in different places would
# not agree on the darwin hashes. '/macos-sdk' was chosen arbitrarily.
#
# Set whenever HOSTS contains a darwin host, so the share is made for
# every host's container in that run, as it was before this mapping
# existed. Only darwin's depends reads SDK_PATH, so the others ignore
# it.
#
# --keep-failed keep build tree of failed builds
#
# When builds of the Guix environment itself (not Dash Core)
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--expose="$(git rev-parse --git-common-dir)" \
${SOURCES_PATH:+--share="$SOURCES_PATH"} \
${BASE_CACHE:+--share="$BASE_CACHE"} \
${SDK_PATH:+--share="$SDK_PATH"} \
${HOST_SDK_PATH:+--share="$HOST_SDK_PATH"=/macos-sdk} \

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Clear inherited HOST_SDK_PATH before the host loop.

When HOSTS contains no Darwin host, an inherited non-empty HOST_SDK_PATH remains active. The script then mounts it at line 469 and sets SDK_PATH=/macos-sdk at line 485. This can break a Linux-only build when the path is not mountable.

Suggested fix 
+HOST_SDK_PATH=""
 for host in $HOSTS; do
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Review comment at @contrib/guix/guix-build at line 469:
Clear HOST_SDK_PATH before the host loop so an inherited value cannot trigger
the SDK mount or set SDK_PATH when HOSTS contains no Darwin host.

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--cores="$JOBS" \
--keep-failed \
--fallback \
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${V:+V=1} \
${SOURCES_PATH:+SOURCES_PATH="$SOURCES_PATH"} \
${BASE_CACHE:+BASE_CACHE="$BASE_CACHE"} \
${SDK_PATH:+SDK_PATH="$SDK_PATH"} \
${HOST_SDK_PATH:+SDK_PATH=/macos-sdk} \
DISTSRC="$(DISTSRC_BASE=/distsrc-base && distsrc_for_host "$HOST")" \
OUTDIR="$(OUTDIR_BASE=/outdir-base && outdir_for_host "$HOST")" \
DIST_ARCHIVE_BASE=/outdir-base/dist-archive \
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