substitute: init at 0

Similar to the colocated `substituteAll` script and derivation, this
PR adds nix-level support for `substitute` directly.  This is useful,
for instance, to be able to easily make tweaks to patch files for an
existing derivation's existing patch files.

2 files changed, 32 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/substitute/substitute.nix b/pkgs/build-support/substitute/substitute.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7f033233458
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/build-support/substitute/substitute.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+{ stdenvNoCC }:
+
+args:
+
+# This is a wrapper around `substitute` in the stdenv.
+# The `replacements` attribute should be a list of list of arguments
+# to `substitute`, such as `[ "--replace" "sourcetext" "replacementtext" ]`
+stdenvNoCC.mkDerivation ({
+  name = if args ? name then args.name else baseNameOf (toString args.src);
+  builder = ./substitute.sh;
+  inherit (args) src;
+  preferLocalBuild = true;
+  allowSubstitutes = false;
+} // args // { replacements = args.replacements; })
diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/substitute/substitute.sh b/pkgs/build-support/substitute/substitute.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..dbac275a80e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/build-support/substitute/substitute.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+source $stdenv/setup
+
+args=
+
+target=$out
+if test -n "$dir"; then
+    target=$out/$dir/$name
+    mkdir -p $out/$dir
+fi
+
+substitute $src $target $replacements
+
+if test -n "$isExecutable"; then
+    chmod +x $target
+fi
+
+eval "$postInstall"
+