elf-header: Init at <libc version>

A little shim derivation to get this header for Darwin, where it is
needed for cross compilation.

There's no real reason to do glibc and musl like that, but as I'm
maintaining it I suppose I can go overboard like that.

1 files changed, 43 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/elf-header/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/elf-header/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..48e5b73d9e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/elf-header/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+{ stdenvNoCC, lib, glibc, musl }:
+
+let
+   libc =
+     if stdenvNoCC.targetPlatform.isMusl
+     then musl
+     else glibc;
+   headerPath =
+     if stdenvNoCC.targetPlatform.isMusl
+     then "musl-${libc.version}/include/elf.h"
+     else "glibc-${libc.version}/elf/elf.h";
+in
+
+stdenvNoCC.mkDerivation {
+  name = "elf-header";
+  inherit (libc) version;
+
+  src = null;
+
+  unpackPhase = "true";
+
+  dontBuild = true;
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    mkdir -p "$out/include";
+    tar -xf \
+        ${lib.escapeShellArg libc.src} \
+        ${lib.escapeShellArg headerPath} \
+        --to-stdout \
+      | sed -e '/features\.h/d' \
+      > "$out/include/elf.h"
+  '';
+
+  meta = libc.meta // {
+    description = "The datastructures of ELF according to the target platform's libc";
+    longDescription = ''
+	  The Executable and Linkable Format (ELF, formerly named Extensible Linking
+	  Format), is usually defined in a header like this.
+	'';
+    platforms = lib.platforms.all;
+    maintainers = [ lib.maintainers.ericson2314 ];
+  };
+}