Build failure: pkgsi686Linux.ncurses5

[HannesGitH]

Steps To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. nix build nixpkgs#pkgsi686Linux.ncurses5

Build log

error: builder for '/nix/store/qrblidcrxqb8mb1llys1rah4r33ipxmc-ncurses-abi5-compat-6.4.drv' failed to produce output path for output 'dev' at '/nix/store/qrblidcrxqb8mb1llys1rah4r33ipxmc-ncurses-abi5-compat-6.4.drv.chroot/nix/store/qjy34z05zcnl9bvv9p99mz9ws06ykk4l-ncurses-abi5-compat-6.4-dev'

Additional context

I stumbled upon this Issue in https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/307983#issuecomment-2086270230, much more context can be seen in that PR

Notify maintainers

! split ncurses into dev output: @vcunat

last commit in ncurses: @ConnorBaker also output related commits in ncurses: @dezgeg added i686pkgsLinux.ncurses to android build tools: @Artturin @hadilq

Metadata

- system: `"x86_64-linux"`
 - host os: `Linux 6.6.25, NixOS, 24.05 (Uakari), 24.05.20240408.4cba8b5`
 - multi-user?: `yes`
 - sandbox: `yes`
 - version: `nix-env (Nix) 2.18.2`
 - channels(root): `"home-manager-23.11.tar.gz, nixos-23.11"`
 - nixpkgs: `/nix/store/450afzqlzzgw6wnyc3dwysf3i5yxyqkr-source`

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[hadilq]

I never touched ncurses5 package, but if I had time I would run git bisect to find the commit that caused this problem. If you don't have time, I'll do it in the next two weeks.

[HannesGitH]

I never touched ncurses5 package, but if I had time I would run git bisect to find the commit that caused this problem. If you don't have time, I'll do it in the next two weeks.

I might be able to do it next week, not sure though..

Weird thing is, as discussed in #307983, that seemingly building androidenv platformtools sometimes results in that build crash, for some not.. I'm not that familiar with nix yet, but thats a rather weird occurance to me, might it be that pkgsi686Linux.ncurses5 was buildable once and @FlafyDev still has it cached in his system? I currently circumvent this problem by removing pkgsi686Linux.ncurses5 from plotformtools build inputs.

does nix build nixpkgs#pkgsi686Linux.ncurses5 at least result in the same error for someone else or might it be a problem with my system?

[Artturin]

nix build ".#pkgsi686Linux.ncurses5^*" builds for me and dev contains the files it should @ d88e2d581fee6aa0daaea9551628684c5d5eb3cd (current master)

Do nix build nixpkgs#pkgsi686Linux.ncurses5 --rebuild

[HannesGitH]

nix build ".#pkgsi686Linux.ncurses5^*" builds for me and dev contains the files it should @ d88e2d5 (current master)

Ok, thanks for letting me know :)

Do nix build nixpkgs#pkgsi686Linux.ncurses5 --rebuild

error: some outputs of '/nix/store/qrblidcrxqb8mb1llys1rah4r33ipxmc-ncurses-abi5-compat-6.4.drv' are not valid, so checking is not possible

[vcunat]

You haven't had a succeeding build yet, so --rebuild doesn't work. You just run normal build again to retry.

[FlafyDev]

You haven't had a succeeding build yet, so --rebuild doesn't work. You just run normal build again to retry.

in the issue they say nix build nixpkgs#pkgsi686Linux.ncurses5 (without --rebuild) fails with the same error

[vcunat]

I don't know. I'm unable to reproduce the issue.

[Artturin]

Hopefully it works by now.