feels like i landed at a reasonable spot with https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/512100 so i opened it for review. i was able to remove the hackier patches for sqlcipher with flags found upstream/remove the hardcoded xcode path, as well as keep the original propagate-inputs.nix in the apple-sdk largely unchanged apart from a single ios-specific flag for tls. working on submitting a very small pr to gnulib to remove the patch for gnugrep. rerunning builds for darwin/ios platforms after rebasing on the latest staging, and also happy to wait for 'realLibiconv' to land so I can verify with that as well.

after actually looking at gnulib, it seems can simplify the gnugrep package for iOS as well, since the libc/nlist headers weren't used and the stackvma stuff is actually available on ios

feels like i landed at a reasonable spot with https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/512100 so i opened it for review. i was able to remove the hackier patches for sqlcipher with flags found upstream/remove the hardcoded xcode path, as well as keep the original propagate-inputs.nix in the apple-sdk largely unchanged apart from a single ios-specific flag for tls. working on submitting a very small pr to gnulib to remove the patch for gnugrep. rerunning builds for darwin/ios platforms after rebasing on the latest staging, and also happy to wait for 'realLibiconv' to land so I can verify with that as well.

edit: after actually looking at gnulib, it seems can simplify the gnugrep package for iOS as well, since the libc/nlist headers weren't used and the stackvma stuff is actually available on ios

how do i patch this perl snippet to behave on nix?

my $script_path =
  File::Spec->catfile($FindBin::Bin, '..', 'lib', 'media-control',
  'mediaremote-adapter.pl');
my $framework_path = File::Spec->rel2abs(
  File::Spec->catdir(
    $FindBin::Bin, '..', 'Frameworks', 'MediaRemoteAdapter.framework'
  )
);
my $test_client_path = File::Spec->rel2abs(
  File::Spec->catdir(
    $FindBin::Bin, '..', 'lib', 'media-control', 'MediaRemoteAdapterTestClient'
  )
);