Nix pill 12

autotools.nix

pkgs: attrs:
  with pkgs;
  let defaultAttrs = {
    builder = "${bash}/bin/bash";
    args = [ ./builder.sh ];
    setup = ./setup.sh;
    baseInputs = [ gnutar gzip gnumake gcc binutils coreutils gawk gnused gnugrep patchelf findutils ];
    buildInputs = [];
    system = builtins.currentSystem;
  };
  in
  derivation (defaultAttrs // attrs)

builder.sh

set -e
source $setup
genericBuild

default.nix

let
  pkgs = import <nixpkgs> {};
  mkDerivation = import ./autotools.nix pkgs;
in with pkgs; {
  hello = import ./hello.nix { inherit mkDerivation; }; 
  graphviz = import ./graphviz.nix { inherit mkDerivation gd fontconfig libjpeg bzip2; };
  graphvizCore = import ./graphviz.nix {
    inherit mkDerivation gd fontconfig libjpeg bzip2;
    gdSupport = false;
  };
}

graphviz.nix

{ mkDerivation, gdSupport ? true, gd, fontconfig, libjpeg, bzip2 }:

mkDerivation {
  name = "graphviz";
  src = ./graphviz-2.38.0.tar.gz;
  buildInputs = if gdSupport then [ gd fontconfig libjpeg bzip2 ] else [];
}

hello.nix

{ mkDerivation }:

mkDerivation {
  name = "hello";
  src = ./hello-2.9.tar.gz;
}

setup.sh

unset PATH
for p in $baseInputs $buildInputs; do
  if [ -d $p/bin ]; then
    export PATH="$p/bin${PATH:+:}$PATH"
  fi
  if [ -d $p/include ]; then
    export NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE="-I $p/include${NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE:+ }$NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE"
  fi
  if [ -d $p/lib ]; then
    export NIX_LDFLAGS="-rpath $p/lib -L $p/lib${NIX_LDFLAGS:+ }$NIX_LDFLAGS"
  fi
done

function unpackPhase() {
  tar -xzf $src

  for d in *; do
    if [ -d "$d" ]; then
      cd "$d"
      break
    fi
  done
}

function configurePhase() {
  ./configure --prefix=$out
}

function buildPhase() {
  make
}

function installPhase() {
  make install
}

function fixupPhase() {
  find $out -type f -exec patchelf --shrink-rpath '{}' \; -exec strip '{}' \; 2>/dev/null 
}

function genericBuild() {
  unpackPhase
  configurePhase
  buildPhase
  installPhase
  fixupPhase
}

I changed binutils to binutils-unwrapped in baseInputs of autotools.nix to build graphviz without errors.

In nixos 2003, it cannot be built with gd extension with the code above.
it compiles but the result has no extension.

There is the issue: NixOS/nix-pills#107