Merge pull request #4093 from matthewbauer/eval-system

Add eval-system option

(cherry picked from commit 071dbbee33af9f27338c3e53e4ea067dbfa14010)
Change-Id: Ia81358c8cfb60241da07a4d0e84b9ee62a18a53f

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/libexpr/eval-settings.hh b/src/libexpr/eval-settings.hh
index 19122bc31..049f42e70 100644
--- a/src/libexpr/eval-settings.hh
+++ b/src/libexpr/eval-settings.hh
@@ -25,6 +25,26 @@ struct EvalSettings : Config
           [`builtins.nixPath`](@docroot@/language/builtin-constants.md#builtins-nixPath).
         )"};
 
+    Setting<std::string> currentSystem{
+        this, "", "eval-system",
+        R"(
+          This option defines
+          [`builtins.currentSystem`](@docroot@/language/builtin-constants.md#builtins-currentSystem)
+          in the Nix language if it is set as a non-empty string.
+          Otherwise, if it is defined as the empty string (the default), the value of the
+          [`system` ](#conf-system)
+          configuration setting is used instead.
+
+          Unlike `system`, this setting does not change what kind of derivations can be built locally.
+          This is useful for evaluating Nix code on one system to produce derivations to be built on another type of system.
+        )"};
+
+    /**
+     * Implements the `eval-system` vs `system` defaulting logic
+     * described for `eval-system`.
+     */
+    const std::string & getCurrentSystem();
+
     Setting<bool> restrictEval{
         this, false, "restrict-eval",
         R"(