Perl package failed to produce output path devdoc

scalavision · October 9, 2021, 12:46pm

I am trying to package a perl library from github using buildPerlPackage function. Everything seems to work well until it crash on the following:

strip is /nix/store/zizh5qzhcn4wzm06z99297ckalwrrpfk-binutils-2.31.1/bin/strip
builder for '/nix/store/paz5pqrs63kgzzb012yklg12ys0s1vsg-perl5.28.2-bioperl.drv' failed to produce output path '/nix/store/3z9gqqlpwyr98srjdkihjyhskbcc6dwh-perl5.28.2-bioperl-devdoc'

The code is located here, but it is very much in flux:

github.com

scalavision/nixpkgs/blob/e8caeb9b7ad512c638fd296366ac34adc6835379/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix#L850

    
      
          };
          prePatch = ''
          mv Build.PL Makefile.PL
          '';
          
          
installPhase = ''
            perl Makefile.PL -a
            ls -ahlt .
            cat ./Build
            ./Build installdeps
            mkdir -p $out/doc
            mkdir -p $out/docs
          '';
          
          
docSupport = false;
          
          
buildInputs = [ TestMemoryCycle TestWeaken ];
          propagatedBuildInputs = [ 
            # BioASN1EntrezGene
            DBFile 
            DataStag

Is there a way to avoid this crash?

volth · October 9, 2021, 5:03pm

That’s OK, just add outputs = [ "out" "dev" ]; or outputs = [ "out" "man" ]; or actually produced output.
There are many packages like this in perl-packages.nix

just in your file:

github.com

scalavision/nixpkgs/blob/e8caeb9b7ad512c638fd296366ac34adc6835379/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix#L8137

    
      
              description = "Interactively prompt for user input";
            };
          };
          
          
IOSessionData = buildPerlPackage {
            name = "IO-SessionData-1.03";
            src = fetchurl {
              url = mirror://cpan/authors/id/P/PH/PHRED/IO-SessionData-1.03.tar.gz;
              sha256 = "1p9d77pqy9a8dbgw7h7vmmkg0rlckk19dchd4c8gvcyv7qm73934";
            };
            outputs = [ "out" "dev" ]; # no "devdoc"
            meta = {
              description = "supporting module for SOAP::Lite";
            };
          };
          
          
IOSocketInet6 = buildPerlModule rec {
            name = "IO-Socket-INET6-2.72";
            src = fetchurl {
              url = "mirror://cpan/authors/id/S/SH/SHLOMIF/${name}.tar.gz";
              sha256 = "1fqypz6qa5rw2d5y2zq7f49frwra0aln13nhq5gi514j2zx21q45";

github.com

scalavision/nixpkgs/blob/e8caeb9b7ad512c638fd296366ac34adc6835379/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix#L9969

    
      
            };
          };
          
          
MHonArc = buildPerlPackage rec {
            name = "MHonArc-2.6.18";
          
          
  src = fetchurl {
              url    = "http://dcssrv1.oit.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/release/MHonArc/tar/${name}.tar.gz";
              sha256 = "1xmf26dfwr8achprc3n1pxgl0mkiyr6pf25wq3dqgzqkghrrsxa2";
            };
            outputs = [ "out" "dev" ]; # no "devdoc"
          
          
  installTargets = "install";
          
          
  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
              homepage    = http://dcssrv1.oit.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/mhonarch.html;
              description = "A mail-to-HTML converter";
              maintainers = with maintainers; [ lovek323 ];
              license     = licenses.gpl2;
            };
          };

github.com

scalavision/nixpkgs/blob/e8caeb9b7ad512c638fd296366ac34adc6835379/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix#L14597

    
      
              license = with stdenv.lib.licenses; [ artistic1 gpl1Plus ];
            };
            propagatedBuildInputs = [ NumberMisc ];
            buildInputs = [ TestToolbox ];
          };
          
          
strip-nondeterminism = buildPerlPackage rec {
            name = "strip-nondeterminism-${version}";
            version = "1.0.0";
          
          
  outputs = [ "out" "dev" ]; # no "devdoc"
          
          
  src = pkgs.fetchFromGitLab {
              owner = "reproducible-builds";
              repo = "strip-nondeterminism";
              domain = "salsa.debian.org";
              rev = version;
              sha256 = "1pwar1fyadqxmvb7x4zyw2iawbi5lsfjcg0ps9n9rdjb6an7vv64";
            };
          
          
  # stray test failure

scalavision · October 17, 2021, 7:49pm

Thank you very much for helping out
There is a ton of cleanup before I can get this into nixpkgs, I hope I some day am able to deliver it.