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{
lib,
stdenv,
updateAutotoolsGnuConfigScriptsHook,
glibcLocales,
fetchurl,
pcre2,
libiconv,
perl,
runtimeShellPackage,
}:
# Note: this package is used for bootstrapping fetchurl, and thus
# cannot use fetchpatch! All mutable patches (generated by GitHub or
# cgit) that are needed here should be included directly in Nixpkgs as
# files.
let
version = "3.12";
in
stdenv.mkDerivation {
pname = "gnugrep";
inherit version;
src = fetchurl {
url = "mirror://gnu/grep/grep-${version}.tar.xz";
hash = "sha256-JkmyfA6Q5jLq3NdXvgbG6aT0jZQd5R58D4P/dkCKB7k=";
};
patches = [
# Fixes test-float-h failure on ppc64 with C23
# https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2025-07/msg00021.html
# Multiple upstream commits squashed with adjustments, see header
./gnulib-float-h-tests-port-to-C23-PowerPC-GCC.patch
];
# Some gnulib tests fail
# - on Musl: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/228714
# - on x86_64-darwin: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/228714#issuecomment-1576826330
# - when building on Darwin (cross-compilation): test-nl_langinfo-mt fails
postPatch =
if stdenv.hostPlatform.isMusl || stdenv.buildPlatform.isDarwin then
''
sed -i 's:gnulib-tests::g' Makefile.in
''
else
null;
nativeCheckInputs = [
perl
glibcLocales
];
outputs = [
"out"
"info"
]; # the man pages are rather small
nativeBuildInputs = [ updateAutotoolsGnuConfigScriptsHook ];
buildInputs = [
pcre2
libiconv
]
++ lib.optional (!stdenv.hostPlatform.isWindows) runtimeShellPackage;
# cygwin: FAIL: multibyte-white-space
# freebsd: FAIL mb-non-UTF8-performance
# x86_64-darwin: fails 'stack-overflow' tests on Rosetta 2 emulator
# aarch32: fails 'stack-overflow' when run on qemu under x86_64
doCheck =
!stdenv.hostPlatform.isCygwin
&& !stdenv.hostPlatform.isFreeBSD
&& !(stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin && stdenv.hostPlatform.isx86_64)
&& !stdenv.buildPlatform.isRiscV64
&& !stdenv.hostPlatform.isAarch32;
# On macOS, force use of mkdir -p, since Grep's fallback
# (./install-sh) is broken.
preConfigure = ''
export MKDIR_P="mkdir -p"
'';
enableParallelBuilding = true;
# Fix reference to sh in bootstrap-tools, and invoke grep via
# absolute path rather than looking at argv[0].
postInstall = ''
rm $out/bin/egrep $out/bin/fgrep
echo "#! /bin/sh" > $out/bin/egrep
echo "exec $out/bin/grep -E \"\$@\"" >> $out/bin/egrep
echo "#! /bin/sh" > $out/bin/fgrep
echo "exec $out/bin/grep -F \"\$@\"" >> $out/bin/fgrep
chmod +x $out/bin/egrep $out/bin/fgrep
'';
env = lib.optionalAttrs (stdenv.hostPlatform.isMinGW || stdenv.hostPlatform.isCygwin) {
NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = "-Wno-error=format-security";
};
meta = {
homepage = "https://www.gnu.org/software/grep/";
description = "GNU implementation of the Unix grep command";
longDescription = ''
The grep command searches one or more input files for lines
containing a match to a specified pattern. By default, grep
prints the matching lines.
'';
license = lib.licenses.gpl3Plus;
maintainers = [
lib.maintainers.das_j
lib.maintainers.m00wl
];
teams = [ lib.teams.security-review ];
platforms = lib.platforms.all;
mainProgram = "grep";
identifiers.cpeParts = lib.meta.cpeFullVersionWithVendor "gnu" version // {
product = "grep";
};
};
passthru = {
inherit pcre2;
};
}
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