Build failure: vim (when neovim is broken)

[MostAwesomeDude]

Custom vim requires neovim-unwrapped.

Steps To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Have neovim-unwrapped not build (mark manually broken, build on exotic arch, etc.)
2. Customize vim with anything from vimPlugins, e.g.

pkgs.vim-full.customize { vimrcConfig.packages.custom.start = [ pkgs.vimPlugins.vim-nix ]; }

vim will fail to build because neovim-unwrapped fails to build.

Build log

Build Log

error: builder for '/nix/store/9h0lwcf7g0ld24lvqadl2n47i0vb4axx-neovim-unwrapped-0.9.5.drv' failed with exit code 1
error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/4p95wfdhbm9b33pgjhn8rlgqj5vhv17c-neovim-require-check-hook.drv' failed to build
error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/f0dnbqhgw6qrr9lf5x3h5npwvszlx31s-vimplugin-vim-nix-2024-02-24.drv' failed to build
error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/y1vbizf37bj4lcxqjdlfllxwllz7j4n3-packdir-start.drv' failed to build
error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/xwpxl589dgj9q4iq5006rwz1d3aw1mff-vim-pack-dir.drv' failed to build
error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/ba7nr8q40y2aawsh39d0icpdw3pr1hnr-vimrc.drv' failed to build
error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/9zn989bzb00g9xwrmbjc73a2j7cvqxas-vim-bin.drv' failed to build
error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/qgp7zb8915h3v86zryrqk8k39bdgh4a3-vim.drv' failed to build

Additional context

I'm currently cross-compiling for armv7l-linux (Raspberry Pi 1), so I know that this configuration is unsupported and I am not asking for the build to work. Rather, I'm surprised that, if neovim-unwrapped cannot build, then vim cannot be customized with any plugins, and this dependency is not architecture-dependent.

Metadata

• system: "x86_64-linux"
• host os: Linux 6.6.60, NixOS, 24.05 (Uakari), 24.05.20241112.689fed1
• multi-user?: yes
• sandbox: yes
• version: nix-env (Nix) 2.18.8
• nixpkgs: /nix/store/8f039qdj69z78ls6rf9xli6rc638g36x-source

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[MostAwesomeDude]

This doesn't have to be resolved by fixing neovim-unwrapped on armv7l-linux. It could just as easily be fixed by improving the layout of vim-utils.nix so that it's possible to disable the offending hooks. I already spent a day seeing if this could be done non-invasively, but I couldn't figure out how to do it in an overlay.

[teto]

I had a patch for this but it didn't seem worth merging. I have revisited it and it should be ok but I need to test it first. Remove the hook if you can fork nixpkgs and you should be fine.

[teto]

#364378 should help, you can track status.