2 files changed, 165 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/libraries/attr/default.nix b/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/libraries/attr/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b81afc24ee98
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/libraries/attr/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+{ lib, stdenv, fetchurl, gettext }:
+
+# 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.
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "attr-2.4.48";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://savannah/attr/${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1rr4adzwax4bzr2c00f06zcsljv5y6p9wymz1g89ww7cb2rp5bay";
+  };
+
+  outputs = [ "bin" "dev" "out" "man" "doc" ];
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ gettext ];
+
+  patches = [
+    # fix fakechroot: https://github.com/dex4er/fakechroot/issues/57
+    ./syscall.patch
+  ];
+
+  postPatch = ''
+    for script in install-sh include/install-sh; do
+      patchShebangs $script
+    done
+  '';
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/attr/";
+    description = "Library and tools for manipulating extended attributes";
+    platforms = platforms.unix;
+    license = licenses.gpl2Plus;
+
+    # The build failure on Darwin will likely be solved after upgrading the
+    # macOS SDK in nixpkgs. Check the current SDK version in
+    # ../../../../os-specific/darwin/apple-sdk/default.nix to see if it has
+    # been updated to 10.13 or later. Once the requirements are met, building
+    # it should be straightforward as Homebrew was able to build it without
+    # patching.
+    broken = stdenv.isDarwin;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/libraries/attr/syscall.patch b/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/libraries/attr/syscall.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..be2cfb3928b4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/libraries/attr/syscall.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,120 @@
+From 14adc898a36948267bfe5c63b399996879e94c98 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
+Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 14:07:31 +0200
+Subject: Switch back to syscall()
+
+Switch back to syscall() for the *xattr system calls.  The current
+mechanism of forwarding those calls to glibc breaks libraries like
+libfakeroot (fakeroot) and libasan (the gcc address sanitizer; gcc
+-fsanitize=address).
+
+Those libraries provide wrappers for functions defined in other shared
+libraries, usually glibc, do their own processing, and forward calls to
+the original symbols looke dup via dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "symbol_name").  In
+our case, dlsym returns the libattr_*xattr wrappers.  However, when our
+wrappers try calling glibc, they end up calling the libfakeroot /
+libasan wrappers instead because those override the original symbols =>
+recursion.
+
+The libattr_*xattr wrappers will only be used when symbols are looked up
+at runtime (dlopen / dlsym).  Programs linking against libattr will
+directly use the glibc provided symbols.  Therefore, the slightly worse
+performance of syscall() won't affect any of the "normal" users of
+libattr.
+---
+ libattr/syscalls.c | 26 ++++++++++++++------------
+ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/libattr/syscalls.c b/libattr/syscalls.c
+index 3013aa0..721ad7f 100644
+--- a/libattr/syscalls.c
++++ b/libattr/syscalls.c
+@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@
+ 
+ #include "config.h"
+ 
++#include <unistd.h>
++#include <sys/syscall.h>
+ #include <sys/xattr.h>
+ 
+ #ifdef HAVE_VISIBILITY_ATTRIBUTE
+@@ -31,67 +33,67 @@
+ int libattr_setxattr(const char *path, const char *name,
+ 		     void *value, size_t size, int flags)
+ {
+-	return setxattr(path, name, value, size, flags);
++	return syscall(__NR_setxattr, path, name, value, size, flags);
+ }
+ 
+ int libattr_lsetxattr(const char *path, const char *name,
+ 		      void *value, size_t size, int flags)
+ {
+-	return lsetxattr(path, name, value, size, flags);
++	return syscall(__NR_lsetxattr, path, name, value, size, flags);
+ }
+ 
+ int libattr_fsetxattr(int filedes, const char *name,
+ 		      void *value, size_t size, int flags)
+ {
+-	return fsetxattr(filedes, name, value, size, flags);
++	return syscall(__NR_fsetxattr, filedes, name, value, size, flags);
+ }
+ 
+ ssize_t libattr_getxattr(const char *path, const char *name,
+ 			 void *value, size_t size)
+ {
+-	return getxattr(path, name, value, size);
++	return syscall(__NR_getxattr, path, name, value, size);
+ }
+ 
+ ssize_t libattr_lgetxattr(const char *path, const char *name,
+ 			  void *value, size_t size)
+ {
+-	return lgetxattr(path, name, value, size);
++	return syscall(__NR_lgetxattr, path, name, value, size);
+ }
+ 
+ ssize_t libattr_fgetxattr(int filedes, const char *name,
+ 			  void *value, size_t size)
+ {
+-	return fgetxattr(filedes, name, value, size);
++	return syscall(__NR_fgetxattr, filedes, name, value, size);
+ }
+ 
+ ssize_t libattr_listxattr(const char *path, char *list, size_t size)
+ {
+-	return listxattr(path, list, size);
++	return syscall(__NR_listxattr, path, list, size);
+ }
+ 
+ ssize_t libattr_llistxattr(const char *path, char *list, size_t size)
+ {
+-	return llistxattr(path, list, size);
++	return syscall(__NR_llistxattr, path, list, size);
+ }
+ 
+ ssize_t libattr_flistxattr(int filedes, char *list, size_t size)
+ {
+-	return flistxattr(filedes, list, size);
++	return syscall(__NR_flistxattr, filedes, list, size);
+ }
+ 
+ int libattr_removexattr(const char *path, const char *name)
+ {
+-	return removexattr(path, name);
++	return syscall(__NR_removexattr, path, name);
+ }
+ 
+ int libattr_lremovexattr(const char *path, const char *name)
+ {
+-	return lremovexattr(path, name);
++	return syscall(__NR_lremovexattr, path, name);
+ }
+ 
+ int libattr_fremovexattr(int filedes, const char *name)
+ {
+-	return fremovexattr(filedes, name);
++	return syscall(__NR_fremovexattr, filedes, name);
+ }
+ 
+ #ifdef HAVE_VISIBILITY_ATTRIBUTE