guix: mount the macOS SDK at a fixed path in the container - #7774
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Every container share whose value reaches the compiler is mapped to a fixed
path: `--share="$PWD"=/dash` and `--share="$DISTSRC_BASE"=/distsrc-base` exist
precisely so the build host's layout cannot end up in the outputs. SDK_PATH was
the exception. It was shared with no target, so the SDK sat at the builder's own
host path inside the container, and depends hands that path to the compiler as
`-isysroot$(OSX_SDK)` (depends/hosts/darwin.mk). Anything that records the name
of an SDK header therefore embedded a builder-specific path.
What still does so is the debug output. dsymutil writes the include directory of
every header it collected, so the darwin *-debug.tar.gz carries the SDK path
tens of thousands of times over, and two builders who keep their SDK in
different places do not agree on that archive. Resolve the SDK's parent
directory host-side in the loop that already checks the SDK exists, and mount it
at /macos-sdk, so the location on the build host cannot reach any output.
Note this does not change an attested artifact. guix-attest filters
apple-darwin-debug.tar out of both noncodesigned.SHA256SUMS and all.SHA256SUMS,
and doc/release-process.md does not ship it, so nothing a release verifies
depends on the SDK's location once the source_location leak it used to carry is
fixed separately. This is reproducibility hygiene for a developer artifact, and
it closes the one compiler-facing share that was not normalised.
Resolving the path rather than testing whether SDK_PATH is set is what makes the
default and an explicit setting converge: contrib/containers/guix/scripts/
guix-start exports SDK_PATH as "${WORKSPACE_PATH}/depends/SDKs", so the value
already differed between builders who use the containerised workflow from
different directories. Normalising only the explicitly-set case would have left
two hash classes and fixed nothing.
The share is made whenever HOSTS contains a darwin host, for every host's
container in that run, which is what it did before this mapping existed. Only
darwin's depends reads SDK_PATH. A build with no darwin host shares nothing,
even if SDK_PATH happens to be exported, which it was not guaranteed to do
before.
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. WalkthroughThe Guix build script now obtains the host macOS SDK path from depends and mounts that directory at Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to A Linux-only Guix build can fail if its environment supplies an unusable HOST_SDK_PATH. Clear the variable before the host loop to avoid this bounded risk. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to The fixed SDK path preserves the normal macOS build access model. However, an inherited internal path variable can unexpectedly expose a writable host directory during non-macOS builds. This requires caller-environment influence; no remotely reachable attack path was established. Retained concerns
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- Line 469: Clear HOST_SDK_PATH before the host loop so an inherited value
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| ${SOURCES_PATH:+--share="$SOURCES_PATH"} \ | ||
| ${BASE_CACHE:+--share="$BASE_CACHE"} \ | ||
| ${SDK_PATH:+--share="$SDK_PATH"} \ | ||
| ${HOST_SDK_PATH:+--share="$HOST_SDK_PATH"=/macos-sdk} \ |
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Clear inherited HOST_SDK_PATH before the host loop.
When HOSTS contains no Darwin host, an inherited non-empty HOST_SDK_PATH remains active. The script then mounts it at line 469 and sets SDK_PATH=/macos-sdk at line 485. This can break a Linux-only build when the path is not mountable.
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Review comment at @contrib/guix/guix-build at line 469:
Clear HOST_SDK_PATH before the host loop so an inherited value cannot trigger
the SDK mount or set SDK_PATH when HOSTS contains no Darwin host.
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The SDK path normalization matches the PR's goal, and shell syntax validation passed at the exact reviewed head. Both reviewers identified the same reproducible inherited-variable edge case, but it requires exporting an undocumented internal variable and warrants a non-blocking defensive-hardening nit rather than a blocking finding.
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💬 Nitpick: Clear inherited HOST_SDK_PATH before detecting Darwin hosts
contrib/guix/guix-build:134
HOST_SDK_PATH is assigned only when the SDK check succeeds for a Darwin host; neither the script nor its prelude clears an inherited value. Running the actual detection loop with Linux-only HOSTS and an exported HOST_SDK_PATH reproduces the unwanted --share==/macos-sdk and SDK_PATH=/macos-sdk arguments. A nonexistent or inaccessible inherited path can therefore make Guix reject an otherwise valid Linux-only build. Darwin-containing runs overwrite the value, and ordinary Linux-only runs with this undocumented variable unset are unaffected, so this is defensive hardening rather than a blocker. Initialize HOST_SDK_PATH before the loop so the mount is controlled solely by the current run's host selection.
HOST_SDK_PATH=""
for host in $HOSTS; do
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lowbygpt-6.1-sol(effort low) — Small, contained Guix build-tooling change that normalizes the macOS SDK mount path and updates documentation, with correctness limited to build reproducibility rather than consensus, runtime, or release-critical code. - Phase 1 reviewers:
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- [NITPICK] contrib/guix/guix-build:134: Clear inherited HOST_SDK_PATH before detecting Darwin hosts
HOST_SDK_PATH is assigned only when the SDK check succeeds for a Darwin host; neither the script nor its prelude clears an inherited value. Running the actual detection loop with Linux-only HOSTS and an exported HOST_SDK_PATH reproduces the unwanted --share=<inherited-path>=/macos-sdk and SDK_PATH=/macos-sdk arguments. A nonexistent or inaccessible inherited path can therefore make Guix reject an otherwise valid Linux-only build. Darwin-containing runs overwrite the value, and ordinary Linux-only runs with this undocumented variable unset are unaffected, so this is defensive hardening rather than a blocker. Initialize HOST_SDK_PATH before the loop so the mount is controlled solely by the current run's host selection.
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Every container share whose value reaches the compiler is mapped to a fixed path.
contrib/guix/guix-buildshares$PWDas/dashandDISTSRC_BASEas/distsrc-baseprecisely so the build host's layout cannot end up in the outputs.SDK_PATHwas the exception: it was shared with no target, so the SDK sat at the builder's own host path inside the container, and depends hands that path to the compiler as-isysroot$(OSX_SDK)(depends/hosts/darwin.mk:7,74-81).What still records that path is the debug output.
dsymutilwrites the include directory of every header it collected, so the darwin*-debug.tar.gzcarries the builder's SDK path tens of thousands of times over - 37,337 occurrences measured on a current build - and two builders who keep their SDK in different places do not agree on that archive.This is worth being precise about, because it is easy to overstate. It does not affect an attested artifact.
contrib/guix/guix-attestfiltersapple-darwin-debug.tarout of bothnoncodesigned.SHA256SUMS(:193-199) andall.SHA256SUMS(:220-228), anddoc/release-process.md:202-214does not ship it. So nothing a release verifies depends on the SDK's location. This is reproducibility hygiene for a developer artifact, plus closing the one compiler-facing share that was not normalised.The separate and genuinely release-affecting problem - a
source_locationcaptured inside a standard library header, which put the SDK path into the shipped binaries as a string literal and produced the differing macOS hashes on v24.0.0-rc.1 - is fixed in #7772 and detected from now on by #7773. That defect is not what this PR addresses, and this PR is not needed to fix it.What was done?
Resolve the SDK's parent directory host-side, with
make print-SDK_PATH, inside the loop that already verifies the SDK exists, and mount it at a fixed/macos-sdk, passingSDK_PATH=/macos-sdkinto the container.Resolving the path rather than testing whether
SDK_PATHis set is what makes the default and an explicit setting converge.contrib/containers/guix/scripts/guix-start:13exportsSDK_PATHas"${WORKSPACE_PATH}/depends/SDKs", so the value already differed between builders who use the containerised workflow from different directories. Normalising only the explicitly-set case would have left two hash classes and fixed nothing.The share is made whenever
HOSTScontains a darwin host, for every host's container in that run, which is what it did before this mapping existed - only darwin's depends readsSDK_PATH, so the others ignore it. A build with no darwin host now shares nothing even ifSDK_PATHhappens to be exported, which was not guaranteed before.guix-cleanand the precious-directory logic keep operating on the host-side path and are unaffected.guix-codesigndoes not build depends and never consumedSDK_PATH.This diverges from Bitcoin Core, which carries the same un-remapped
${SDK_PATH:+--share="$SDK_PATH"}line. The divergence is deliberate rather than a missed backport, and is confined to guix-build's existing SDK check and share.How Has This Been Tested?
A local guix build with
SDK_PATH=/tmp/macOS-SDKsand a CI guix build with no customSDK_PATHproduced identical output for the same commit, which is the property the change exists to provide: the two cases previously resolved to different container paths.Measured before the change, on a green build of the current tree: the shipped
...-arm64-apple-darwin-debug.tar.gzcontains 37,337 occurrences of the builder's SDK path, as DWARF include-directory entries. A control on the same scan found 44,348/dash/dependspaths, confirming the pipeline was reading the archive rather than silently returning nothing.The gating was exercised across five combinations - linux-only with
SDK_PATHunset and set, mixed linux plus darwin with it unset and set, and darwin-only - confirming that both darwin cases converge on/macos-sdkand that a linux-only build shares nothing.Breaking Changes
None to any shipped or attested artifact. The darwin
*-debug.tar.gzand its per-hostSHA256SUMS.partline change for every builder, including those using the defaultSDK_PATH, because the recorded path moves from<workspace>/depends/SDKs/Xcode-...to/macos-sdk/Xcode-.... Debug archives built before and after this change are therefore not comparable. Best landed between release cycles rather than during an active tagged RC's signing and verification.Checklist:
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