Make platform checks throw BuildError like other failures (backport #13278) #13603
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Motivation
Some complex derivations can depend on multiple systems. In cases where these aren't already cached (or locally buildable), Nix throws an error indicating that a derivation cannot be built. However, this does not behave the same with respect to other build errors. This PR changes the error to throw
BuildError
, allowing Nix to report the dependency tree that led to the build error, if any.In the examples below,
needs-*
depends on a derivation that fails for the various scenarios I've tested locally.Mismatched system
Before:
After:
Missing required feature
Before:
After:
Rosetta not installed
(Note that I don't have a Mac to test on, but I've used --system passed to sudo nix build to generate this error.)
Before:
After:
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