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@ihar.hrachyshka:matrix.orgIhar Hrachyshkathis seems to work (setting both macros): https://github.com/booxter/nixpkgs/commit/43a6fcf215ec455b41379d6d68e2a93aff626f26 will now check if setting just -D_DARWIN_UNLIMITED_SELECT is enough.00:31:06
@ihar.hrachyshka:matrix.orgIhar Hrachyshka (the GPollFD poll_fds[1024 * 2]; /* this is probably overkill */ comment in qemu seems to assume that they don't expect anyone to map the whole distro into VM :D) 00:31:38
@ihar.hrachyshka:matrix.orgIhar Hrachyshka * (the GPollFD poll_fds[1024 * 2]; /* this is probably overkill */ comment in qemu seems to suggest that they don't expect anyone to map the whole distro into VM :D) 00:33:31
@ihar.hrachyshka:matrix.orgIhar Hrachyshka * checked which fds are opened by qemu. basically, for every process inside the vm, each .so (or .dll for dotnet apps) is in the list for all services. since I'm using the VMs to test changes to my beafy VMs running lots of services (like jellyfin or *arr stack), the list gets exhausted. It's probably a function of these VMs using nix store overlay and not directly copying packages into the VM image. (otherwise I'd expect qemu opening just the image file). 00:33:59
@ihar.hrachyshka:matrix.orgIhar Hrachyshka

one probably wouldn't even need to run a lot of services at the same time - just start and stop different processes serially

Actually this is not true since fds are reused. one has to hold on to the fd (e.g. with a process running inside the VM).

00:56:00
@reckenrode:matrix.orgRandy Eckenrode
$ nix build -f . swiftPackages.swift-format
$ result/bin/swift-format --version
6.2.3
03:37:31
@reckenrode:matrix.orgRandy Eckenrode That’s with the hook vendoring the packages from nixpkgs and propagating swift-corelibs-xctest automatically from swift. 03:37:56
@reckenrode:matrix.orgRandy Eckenrode
{
  lib,
  fetchFromGitHub,
  mkSwiftPackage,
  swift-argument-parser,
  swift-markdown,
  swift-syntax,
  stdenv,
  swift_release,
}:

mkSwiftPackage (finalAttrs: {
  pname = "swift-format";
  version = swift_release;

  src = fetchFromGitHub {
    owner = "swiftlang";
    repo = "swift-format";
    tag = "swift-${finalAttrs.version}-RELEASE";
    hash = "sha256-DhTtGU2B9BIyN6PyLBlg7kIs3cVyRl6Pa9G0txzta0g=";
  };

  postPatch =
    # Fix the deployment target or compiling code using XCTest fails.
    lib.optionalString stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin ''
      substituteInPlace Package.swift \
        --replace-fail '.macOS("13.0")' ".macOS(\"$MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET\")"
    '';

  buildInputs = [
    swift-argument-parser
    swift-markdown
    swift-syntax
  ];
})
03:39:01
@saiko:knifepoint.netKatalin 🔪 cool! 03:39:21
@reckenrode:matrix.orgRandy Eckenrode swift package edit lets me handle vendoring in a better way than what we were doing before. 03:39:52
@reckenrode:matrix.orgRandy EckenrodeThe inputs are just source packages. With traits, I don’t think we can reliably pre-compile dependencies.03:40:12
@reckenrode:matrix.orgRandy Eckenrode(Even if we could fool SwiftPM into using them.)03:40:20
@reckenrode:matrix.orgRandy EckenrodeNext is splitting out Swift Syntax from the compiler, so it looks like a normal package and works with SwiftPM’s special support for providing pre-built Swift Syntax binaries.03:41:21
@saiko:knifepoint.netKatalin 🔪 I'll have to test this with Meson at some point too 03:42:35
@saiko:knifepoint.netKatalin 🔪 but I assume it'll just work 03:43:00
@reckenrode:matrix.orgRandy Eckenrode mkSwiftPackage is a helper that sets up packages to be consumable as inputs. 03:43:48
@reckenrode:matrix.orgRandy EckenrodeIt’s not currently available outside of the Swift package set.03:44:13
@reckenrode:matrix.orgRandy Eckenrode * mkSwiftPackage is a helper that sets up package sources to be consumable as inputs. 03:44:31

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