core/pkgs/build-support/release/source-tarball.nix

# This function converts an un-Autoconfed source tarball (typically a
# checkout from a Subversion or CVS repository) into a source tarball
# by running `autoreconf', `configure' and `make dist'.

{
  officialRelease ? false,
  buildInputs ? [ ],
  name ? "source-tarball",
  version ? "0",
  versionSuffix ? if officialRelease then "" else "pre${toString (src.rev or src.revCount or "")}",
  src,
  lib,
  stdenv,
  autoconf,
  automake,
  libtool,
  # By default, provide all the GNU Build System as input.
  bootstrapBuildInputs ? [
    autoconf
    automake
    libtool
  ],
  ...
}@args:

stdenv.mkDerivation (

  # First, attributes that can be overridden by the caller (via args):
  {
    # By default, only configure and build a source distribution.
    # Some packages can only build a distribution after a general
    # `make' (or even `make install').
    dontBuild = true;
    dontInstall = true;
    doDist = true;

    # If we do install, install to a dummy location.
    useTempPrefix = true;

    showBuildStats = true;

    preConfigurePhases = "autoconfPhase";
    postPhases = "finalPhase";

    # Autoconfiscate the sources.
    autoconfPhase = ''
      export VERSION=${version}
      export VERSION_SUFFIX=${versionSuffix}

      # `svn-revision' is set for backwards compatibility with the old
      # Nix buildfarm.  (Stratego/XT's autoxt uses it.  We should
      # update it eventually.)
      echo ${versionSuffix} | sed -e s/pre// > svn-revision

      eval "$preAutoconf"

      if test -x ./bootstrap && test -f ./bootstrap; then ./bootstrap
      elif test -x ./bootstrap.sh; then ./bootstrap.sh
      elif test -x ./autogen.sh; then ./autogen.sh
      elif test -x ./autogen ; then ./autogen
      elif test -x ./reconf; then ./reconf
      elif test -f ./configure.in || test -f ./configure.ac; then
          autoreconf --install --force --verbose
      else
          echo "No bootstrap, bootstrap.sh, configure.in or configure.ac. Assuming this is not an GNU Autotools package."
      fi

      eval "$postAutoconf"
    '';

    failureHook = ''
      if test -n "$succeedOnFailure"; then
          if test -n "$keepBuildDirectory"; then
              KEEPBUILDDIR="$out/`basename $TMPDIR`"
              echo "Copying build directory to $KEEPBUILDDIR"
              mkdir -p $KEEPBUILDDIR
              cp -R "$TMPDIR/"* $KEEPBUILDDIR
          fi
      fi
    '';
  }

  # Then, the caller-supplied attributes.
  // (builtins.removeAttrs args [ "lib" ])
  //

    # And finally, our own stuff.
    {
      name = name + "-" + version + versionSuffix;

      buildInputs = buildInputs ++ bootstrapBuildInputs;

      preUnpack = ''
        mkdir -p $out/nix-support
      '';

      postUnpack = ''
        # Set all source files to the current date.  This is because Nix
        # resets the timestamp on all files to 0 (1/1/1970), which some
        # people don't like (in particular GNU tar prints harmless but
        # frightening warnings about it).
        touch now
        touch -d "1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC" then
        find $sourceRoot ! -newer then -print0 | xargs -0r touch --reference now
        rm now then
        eval "$nextPostUnpack"
      '';

      nextPostUnpack = if args ? postUnpack then args.postUnpack else "";

      # Cause distPhase to copy tar.bz2 in addition to tar.gz.
      tarballs = "*.tar.gz *.tar.bz2 *.tar.xz";

      finalPhase = ''
        for i in "$out/tarballs/"*; do
            echo "file source-dist $i" >> $out/nix-support/hydra-build-products
        done

        # Try to figure out the release name.
        releaseName=$( (cd $out/tarballs && ls) | head -n 1 | sed -e 's^\.[a-z].*^^')
        test -n "$releaseName" && (echo "$releaseName" >> $out/nix-support/hydra-release-name)
      '';

      passthru = {
        inherit src;
        version = version + versionSuffix;
      };

      meta = (lib.optionalAttrs (args ? meta) args.meta) // {
        description = "Source distribution";

        # Tarball builds are generally important, so give them a high
        # default priority.
        schedulingPriority = 200;
      };
    }

)