fix(nix/buildkite): solve bogus realpath errors if build steps fail

- Set pipefail to make sure the correct exit code gets returned.

- Don't let xargs(1) call realpath(1) if the build fails (and nothing is
  printed to stdout).

Change-Id: I526a18df877601d884b83862da5f37336cdf52cd
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/11312
Autosubmit: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
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sterni 2024-03-31 21:03:05 +02:00 committed by clbot
parent 32724d28ee
commit c59e11dc3e

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@ -47,6 +47,9 @@ rec {
# Create build command for an attribute path pointing to a derivation.
mkBuildCommand = { attrPath, drvPath, outLink ? "result" }: concatStringsSep " " [
# If the nix build fails, the Nix command's exit status should be used.
"set -o pipefail;"
# First try to realise the drvPath of the target so we don't evaluate twice.
# Nix has no concept of depending on a derivation file without depending on
# at least one of its `outPath`s, so we need to discard the string context
@ -55,7 +58,7 @@ rec {
# To make this more uniform with how nix-build(1) works, we call realpath(1)
# on nix-store(1)'s output since it has the habit of printing the path of the
# out link, not the store path.
"(nix-store --realise '${drvPath}' --add-root '${outLink}' --indirect | xargs realpath)"
"(nix-store --realise '${drvPath}' --add-root '${outLink}' --indirect | xargs -r realpath)"
# Since we don't gcroot the derivation files, they may be deleted by the
# garbage collector. In that case we can reevaluate and build the attribute