Build Julia on NixOS

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I am not sure how helpful it is, but I am using this expression:

{ stdenv, fetchurl, fetchzip, fetchFromGitHub
# build tools
, gfortran, m4, makeWrapper, patchelf, perl, which, python2
, cmake
# libjulia dependencies
, libunwind, readline, utf8proc, zlib
# standard library dependencies
, curl, fftwSinglePrec, fftw, gmp, libgit2, 
mpfr, openlibm, openspecfun, pcre2
# linear algebra
, openblas, arpack
# llvm
, llvm
}:

with stdenv.lib;

# All dependencies must use the same OpenBLAS.
let
  arpack_ = arpack;
in
let
  arpack = arpack_.override { inherit openblas; };
in

let 
  majorVersion = "1";
  minorVersion = "5";
  maintenanceVersion = "0";
  src_sha256 = "1x10q46q2bkr19nqgc05kx8sachh8dz8v7qrvqwdagr4g8yxmqrs";
  version = "${majorVersion}.${minorVersion}.${maintenanceVersion}";
in 

stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
  pname = "julia";
  inherit version;

  src = fetchzip {
     url = "https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/releases/download/v1.5.0-rc1/julia-1.5.0-rc1-full.tar.gz";
     sha256 = src_sha256;
   };

  prePatch = ''
    export PATH=$PATH:${cmake}/bin
    '';

  patches = [
    ./use-system-utf8proc-julia-1.3.patch

    # Julia recompiles a precompiled file if the mtime stored *in* the
    # .ji file differs from the mtime of the .ji file.  This
    # doesn't work in Nix because Nix changes the mtime of files in
    # the Nix store to 1. So patch Julia to accept mtimes of 1.
    ./allow_nix_mtime.patch
  ];

  postPatch = ''
    patchShebangs . contrib
    for i in backtrace cmdlineargs; do
      mv test/$i.jl{,.off}
      touch test/$i.jl
    done
    rm stdlib/Sockets/test/runtests.jl && touch stdlib/Sockets/test/runtests.jl
    rm stdlib/Distributed/test/runtests.jl && touch stdlib/Distributed/test/runtests.jl
    # LibGit2 fails with a weird error, so we skip it as well now
    rm stdlib/LibGit2/test/runtests.jl && touch stdlib/LibGit2/test/runtests.jl
    sed -e 's/Invalid Content-Type:/invalid Content-Type:/g' -i ./stdlib/LibGit2/test/libgit2.jl
    sed -e 's/Failed to resolve /failed to resolve /g' -i ./stdlib/LibGit2/test/libgit2.jl
  '';

  buildInputs = [
    arpack fftw fftwSinglePrec gmp libgit2 libunwind mpfr
    pcre2.dev openblas openlibm openspecfun readline utf8proc
    zlib
  ]
  ++ stdenv.lib.optionals stdenv.isDarwin [CoreServices ApplicationServices]
  ;

  nativeBuildInputs = [ curl gfortran m4 makeWrapper patchelf perl python2 which ];

  makeFlags =
    let
      arch = head (splitString "-" stdenv.system);
      march = { x86_64 = stdenv.hostPlatform.platform.gcc.arch or "x86-64"; i686 = "pentium4"; }.${arch}
              or (throw "unsupported architecture: ${arch}");
      # Julia requires Pentium 4 (SSE2) or better
      cpuTarget = { x86_64 = "x86-64"; i686 = "pentium4"; }.${arch}
                  or (throw "unsupported architecture: ${arch}");
    in [
      "ARCH=${arch}"
      "MARCH=${march}"
      "JULIA_CPU_TARGET=${cpuTarget}"
      "PREFIX=$(out)"
      "prefix=$(out)"
      "SHELL=${stdenv.shell}"

      "USE_SYSTEM_BLAS=1"
      "USE_BLAS64=${if openblas.blas64 then "1" else "0"}"
      "LIBBLAS=-lopenblas"
      "LIBBLASNAME=libopenblas"

      "USE_SYSTEM_LAPACK=1"
      "LIBLAPACK=-lopenblas"
      "LIBLAPACKNAME=libopenblas"

      "PCRE_CONFIG=${pcre2.dev}/bin/pcre2-config"
      "PCRE_INCL_PATH=${pcre2.dev}/include/pcre2.h"
      "USE_SYSTEM_READLINE=1"
      "USE_SYSTEM_UTF8PROC=1"
      "USE_SYSTEM_ZLIB=1"

      "USE_BINARYBUILDER=0"
    ];

  LD_LIBRARY_PATH = makeLibraryPath [
    arpack fftw fftwSinglePrec gmp libgit2 mpfr openblas openlibm
    openspecfun pcre2
  ];

  enableParallelBuilding = true;

  doCheck = !stdenv.isDarwin;
  checkTarget = false;
  # Julia's tests require read/write access to $HOME
  preCheck = ''
    export HOME="$NIX_BUILD_TOP"
  '';

  preBuild = ''
    sed -e '/^install:/s@[^ ]*/doc/[^ ]*@@' -i Makefile
    sed -e '/[$](DESTDIR)[$](docdir)/d' -i Makefile
    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
  '';

  postInstall = ''
    # Symlink shared libraries from LD_LIBRARY_PATH into lib/julia,
    # as using a wrapper with LD_LIBRARY_PATH causes segmentation
    # faults when program returns an error:
    #   $ julia -e 'throw(Error())'
    find $(echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH | sed 's|:| |g') -maxdepth 1 -name '*.${if stdenv.isDarwin then "dylib" else "so"}*' | while read lib; do
      if [[ ! -e $out/lib/julia/$(basename $lib) ]]; then
        ln -sv $lib $out/lib/julia/$(basename $lib)
      fi
    done
  '';

  passthru = {
    inherit majorVersion minorVersion maintenanceVersion;
    site = "share/julia/site/v${majorVersion}.${minorVersion}";
  };

  meta = {
    description = "High-level performance-oriented dynamical language for technical computing";
    homepage = https://julialang.org/;
    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.mit;
    maintainers = with stdenv.lib.maintainers; [ raskin rob garrison ];
    platforms = [ "i686-linux" "x86_64-linux" "x86_64-darwin" ];
    broken = stdenv.isi686;
  };
}

to build julia 1.5 locally. You can get the patches from nixpkgs.

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