build: Remove references to the 'nix-hash' program.

* configure.ac: Remove check for 'nix-hash'.
* tests/base32.scm (%nix-hash, %have-nix-hash?): Remove.
("sha256 & bytevector->nix-base32-string"): Remove test.
* build-aux/pre-inst-env.in: Do not set 'NIX_HASH' environment
variable.

3 files changed, 2 insertions, 43 deletions

diff --git a/build-aux/pre-inst-env.in b/build-aux/pre-inst-env.in
index e0aa7fe8685..cd90a06cbc7 100644
--- a/build-aux/pre-inst-env.in
+++ b/build-aux/pre-inst-env.in
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 # GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
-# Copyright © 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
+# Copyright © 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
 # Copyright © 2017 Eric Bavier <bavier@cray.com>
 #
 # This file is part of GNU Guix.
@@ -46,13 +46,6 @@ export PATH
 GUIX="$abs_top_builddir/scripts/guix"
 export GUIX
 
-# The following variables need only be defined when compiling Guix
-# modules, but we define them to be on the safe side in case of
-# auto-compilation.
-
-NIX_HASH="@NIX_HASH@"
-export NIX_HASH
-
 # Define $GUIX_UNINSTALLED to prevent `guix' from
 # prepending @guilemoduledir@ to the Guile load paths.
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 7959d08cd7c..adca3746195 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -194,11 +194,6 @@ AC_ARG_WITH([nix-prefix],
    esac],
   [])
 
-AC_PATH_PROG([NIX_HASH], [nix-hash])
-if test "x$guix_build_daemon$NIX_HASH" = "xno"; then
-   AC_MSG_ERROR([Nix programs not found; please install Nix or use `--with-nix-prefix'.])
-fi
-
 AC_ARG_WITH([nixpkgs],
   [AS_HELP_STRING([--with-nixpkgs=DIR],
     [search for Nixpkgs in DIR (for testing purposes only)])],
diff --git a/tests/base32.scm b/tests/base32.scm
index 134e5786330..a999edcaccb 100644
--- a/tests/base32.scm
+++ b/tests/base32.scm
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
-;;; Copyright © 2012, 2013, 2015 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
+;;; Copyright © 2012, 2013, 2015, 2020 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
 ;;;
 ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
 ;;;
@@ -23,26 +23,12 @@
   #:use-module (srfi srfi-1)
   #:use-module (srfi srfi-34)
   #:use-module (srfi srfi-64)
-  #:use-module (ice-9 rdelim)
-  #:use-module (ice-9 popen)
   #:use-module (ice-9 match)
   #:use-module (rnrs bytevectors)
   #:use-module (rnrs io ports))
 
 ;; Test the (guix base32) module.
 
-(define %nix-hash
-  (or (and=> (getenv "NIX_HASH")
-             (match-lambda
-              ("" #f)
-              (val val)))
-      "nix-hash"))
-
-(define %have-nix-hash?
-  ;; Note: Use `system', not `system*', because of <http://bugs.gnu.org/13166>.
-  (false-if-exception
-   (zero? (system (string-append %nix-hash " --version")))))
-
 (test-begin "base32")
 
 (test-assert "bytevector->base32-string"
@@ -85,19 +71,4 @@
     (nix-base32-string->bytevector
      (string-append (make-string 51 #\a) "e"))))
 
-;; The following test requires `nix-hash' in $PATH.
-(unless %have-nix-hash?
-  (test-skip 1))
-
-(test-assert "sha256 & bytevector->nix-base32-string"
-  (let ((file (search-path %load-path "tests/test.drv")))
-    (equal? (bytevector->nix-base32-string
-             (sha256 (call-with-input-file file get-bytevector-all)))
-            (let* ((c (format #f "~a --type sha256 --base32 --flat \"~a\""
-                              %nix-hash file))
-                   (p (open-input-pipe c))
-                   (l (read-line p)))
-              (close-pipe p)
-              l))))
-
 (test-end)