stdenv: define is* predicates with hostPlatform.is*

This is a saner default until stdenv's are removed altogether

pkgs/stdenv/darwin/default.nix

@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ in rec {
                           allowedRequisites ? null}:
     let
       thisStdenv = import ../generic {
-        inherit system config shell extraBuildInputs allowedRequisites;
+        inherit config shell extraBuildInputs allowedRequisites;
 
         name = "stdenv-darwin-boot-${toString step}";
 
@@ -87,6 +87,10 @@ in rec {
           ${extraPreHook}
         '';
         initialPath  = [ bootstrapTools ];
+
+        hostPlatform = localSystem;
+        targetPlatform = localSystem;
+
         fetchurlBoot = import ../../build-support/fetchurl {
           stdenv = stage0.stdenv;
           curl   = bootstrapTools;
@@ -268,7 +272,7 @@ in rec {
   };
 
   stdenvDarwin = prevStage: let pkgs = prevStage; in import ../generic rec {
-    inherit system config;
+    inherit config;
     inherit (pkgs.stdenv) fetchurlBoot;
 
     name = "stdenv-darwin";
@@ -280,6 +284,9 @@ in rec {
     stdenvSandboxProfile = binShClosure + libSystemProfile;
     extraSandboxProfile  = binShClosure + libSystemProfile;
 
+    hostPlatform = localSystem;
+    targetPlatform = localSystem;
+
     initialPath = import ../common-path.nix { inherit pkgs; };
     shell       = "${pkgs.bash}/bin/bash";
 

pkgs/stdenv/freebsd/default.nix

@@ -35,8 +35,10 @@ let inherit (localSystem) system; in
 
     stdenv = import ../generic {
       name = "stdenv-freebsd-boot-1";
-      inherit system config;
+      inherit config;
       initialPath = [ "/" "/usr" ];
+      hostPlatform = localSystem;
+      targetPlatform = localSystem;
       shell = "${bootstrapTools}/bin/bash";
       fetchurlBoot = null;
       cc = null;
@@ -50,9 +52,10 @@ let inherit (localSystem) system; in
 
     stdenv = import ../generic {
       name = "stdenv-freebsd-boot-0";
-      inherit system config;
+      inherit config;
       initialPath = [ prevStage.bootstrapTools ];
-      inherit (prevStage.stdenv) shell;
+      inherit (prevStage.stdenv)
+        hostPlatform targetPlatform shell;
       fetchurlBoot = prevStage.fetchurl;
       cc = null;
     };
@@ -65,10 +68,10 @@ let inherit (localSystem) system; in
     inherit config overlays;
     stdenv = import ../generic {
       name = "stdenv-freebsd-boot-3";
-      inherit system config;
+      inherit config;
 
       inherit (prevStage.stdenv)
-        initialPath shell fetchurlBoot;
+        hostPlatform targetPlatform initialPath shell fetchurlBoot;
 
       cc = import ../../build-support/cc-wrapper {
         nativeTools  = true;

pkgs/stdenv/generic/default.nix

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 let lib = import ../../../lib; in lib.makeOverridable (
 
-{ system, name ? "stdenv", preHook ? "", initialPath, cc, shell
+{ name ? "stdenv", preHook ? "", initialPath, cc, shell
 , allowedRequisites ? null, extraAttrs ? {}, overrides ? (self: super: {}), config
 
 , # The `fetchurl' to use for downloading curl and its dependencies
@@ -14,9 +14,18 @@ let lib = import ../../../lib; in lib.makeOverridable (
 , __extraImpureHostDeps ? []
 , stdenvSandboxProfile ? ""
 , extraSandboxProfile ? ""
+
+, # The platforms here do *not* correspond to the stage the stdenv is
+  # used in, but rather the previous one, in which it was built. We
+  # use the latter two platforms, like a cross compiler, because the
+  # stand environment is a build tool if you squint at it, and because
+  # neither of these are used when building stdenv so we know the
+  # build platform is irrelevant.
+  hostPlatform, targetPlatform
 }:
 
 let
+  inherit (targetPlatform) system;
 
   # See discussion at https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/25304#issuecomment-298385426
   # for why this defaults to false, but I (@copumpkin) want to default it to true soon.
@@ -265,7 +274,7 @@ let
 
       outputs' =
         outputs ++
-        (if separateDebugInfo then assert result.isLinux; [ "debug" ] else []);
+        (if separateDebugInfo then assert targetPlatform.isLinux; [ "debug" ] else []);
 
       buildInputs' = lib.chooseDevOutputs buildInputs ++
         (if separateDebugInfo then [ ../../build-support/setup-hooks/separate-debug-info.sh ] else []);
@@ -311,7 +320,7 @@ let
           # Inputs built by the usual native compiler.
           nativeBuildInputs = nativeBuildInputs'
             ++ lib.optional
-                (result.isCygwin
+                (hostPlatform.isCygwin
                   || (crossConfig != null && lib.hasSuffix "mingw32" crossConfig))
                 ../../build-support/setup-hooks/win-dll-link.sh
             ;
@@ -392,51 +401,14 @@ let
       };
 
       # Utility flags to test the type of platform.
-      isDarwin = system == "x86_64-darwin";
-      isLinux = system == "i686-linux"
-             || system == "x86_64-linux"
-             || system == "powerpc-linux"
-             || system == "armv5tel-linux"
-             || system == "armv6l-linux"
-             || system == "armv7l-linux"
-             || system == "aarch64-linux"
-             || system == "mips64el-linux";
-      isGNU = system == "i686-gnu"; # GNU/Hurd
-      isSunOS = system == "i686-solaris"
-             || system == "x86_64-solaris";
-      isCygwin = system == "i686-cygwin"
-              || system == "x86_64-cygwin";
-      isFreeBSD = system == "i686-freebsd"
-               || system == "x86_64-freebsd";
-      isOpenBSD = system == "i686-openbsd"
-               || system == "x86_64-openbsd";
-      isi686 = system == "i686-linux"
-            || system == "i686-gnu"
-            || system == "i686-freebsd"
-            || system == "i686-openbsd"
-            || system == "i686-cygwin"
-            || system == "i386-sunos";
-      isx86_64 = system == "x86_64-linux"
-              || system == "x86_64-darwin"
-              || system == "x86_64-freebsd"
-              || system == "x86_64-openbsd"
-              || system == "x86_64-cygwin"
-              || system == "x86_64-solaris";
-      is64bit = system == "x86_64-linux"
-             || system == "x86_64-darwin"
-             || system == "x86_64-freebsd"
-             || system == "x86_64-openbsd"
-             || system == "x86_64-cygwin"
-             || system == "x86_64-solaris"
-             || system == "aarch64-linux"
-             || system == "mips64el-linux";
-      isMips = system == "mips-linux"
-            || system == "mips64el-linux";
-      isArm = system == "armv5tel-linux"
-           || system == "armv6l-linux"
-           || system == "armv7l-linux";
-      isAarch64 = system == "aarch64-linux";
-      isBigEndian = system == "powerpc-linux";
+      inherit (hostPlatform)
+        isDarwin isLinux isSunOS isCygwin isFreeBSD isOpenBSD isi686 isx86_64
+        is64bit isMips isBigEndian;
+      isArm = hostPlatform.isArm32;
+      isAarch64 = hostPlatform.isArm64;
+      # Other code instead checks for anything using GNU userland,
+      # e.g. GNU/linux. This refers just to GNU Hurd.
+      isGNU = system == "i686-gnu";
 
       # Whether we should run paxctl to pax-mark binaries.
       needsPax = isLinux;

pkgs/stdenv/linux/default.nix

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ let
     let
 
       thisStdenv = import ../generic {
-        inherit system config extraBuildInputs;
+        inherit config extraBuildInputs;
         name = "stdenv-linux-boot";
         preHook =
           ''
@@ -64,6 +64,9 @@ let
         shell = "${bootstrapTools}/bin/bash";
         initialPath = [bootstrapTools];
 
+        hostPlatform = localSystem;
+        targetPlatform = localSystem;
+
         fetchurlBoot = import ../../build-support/fetchurl/boot.nix {
           inherit system;
         };
@@ -261,7 +264,7 @@ in
     targetPlatform = localSystem;
     inherit config overlays;
     stdenv = import ../generic rec {
-      inherit system config;
+      inherit config;
 
       preHook = ''
         # Make "strip" produce deterministic output, by setting
@@ -273,6 +276,9 @@ in
       initialPath =
         ((import ../common-path.nix) {pkgs = prevStage;});
 
+      hostPlatform = localSystem;
+      targetPlatform = localSystem;
+
       extraBuildInputs = [ prevStage.patchelf prevStage.paxctl ] ++
         # Many tarballs come with obsolete config.sub/config.guess that don't recognize aarch64.
         lib.optional (system == "aarch64-linux") prevStage.updateAutotoolsGnuConfigScriptsHook;

pkgs/stdenv/native/default.nix

@@ -81,6 +81,9 @@ let
     { cc, fetchurl, extraPath ? [], overrides ? (self: super: { }) }:
 
     import ../generic {
+      hostPlatform = localSystem;
+      targetPlatform = localSystem;
+
       preHook =
         if system == "i686-freebsd" then prehookFreeBSD else
         if system == "x86_64-freebsd" then prehookFreeBSD else

pkgs/stdenv/nix/default.nix

@@ -24,11 +24,11 @@ bootStages ++ [
 
       initialPath = (import ../common-path.nix) { pkgs = prevStage; };
 
-      system = stdenv.system;
+      inherit (prevStage.stdenv) hostPlatform targetPlatform;
 
       cc = import ../../build-support/cc-wrapper {
         nativeTools = false;
-        nativePrefix = stdenv.lib.optionalString stdenv.isSunOS "/usr";
+        nativePrefix = stdenv.lib.optionalString hostPlatform.isSunOS "/usr";
         nativeLibc = true;
         inherit stdenv;
         inherit (prevStage) binutils coreutils gnugrep;