nix build (and others): Force re-evaluation of cached errors

Fixes #3872.

This is a bit hacky. Ideally we would automatically re-evaluate the
failed attribute iff we need to print the error message (so in
commands like 'nix search' we wouldn't re-evaluate because we're
suppressing errors).

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/libexpr/eval-cache.hh b/src/libexpr/eval-cache.hh
index afee85fa9..8ffffc0ed 100644
--- a/src/libexpr/eval-cache.hh
+++ b/src/libexpr/eval-cache.hh
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
 
 namespace nix::eval_cache {
 
+MakeError(CachedEvalError, EvalError);
+
 class AttrDb;
 class AttrCursor;
 
@@ -92,11 +94,11 @@ public:
 
     std::string getAttrPathStr(Symbol name) const;
 
-    std::shared_ptr<AttrCursor> maybeGetAttr(Symbol name);
+    std::shared_ptr<AttrCursor> maybeGetAttr(Symbol name, bool forceErrors = false);
 
     std::shared_ptr<AttrCursor> maybeGetAttr(std::string_view name);
 
-    std::shared_ptr<AttrCursor> getAttr(Symbol name);
+    std::shared_ptr<AttrCursor> getAttr(Symbol name, bool forceErrors = false);
 
     std::shared_ptr<AttrCursor> getAttr(std::string_view name);