spidermonkey_38: drop

it was based on a firefox release that last received an update in April 2016

pkgs/development/interpreters/spidermonkey/38.nix

@@ -1,72 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchurl, pkg-config, gnused_422, perl, python2, zip, libffi, readline, icu, zlib, buildPackages
-, libobjc }:
-
-with lib;
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  version = "38.8.0";
-  pname = "spidermonkey";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "mirror://mozilla/firefox/releases/${version}esr/source/firefox-${version}esr.source.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "10lrync6cxnjlnadc0j3vg8r2dq9b3wwanw8qj1h6ncxwb7asxcl";
-  };
-
-  buildInputs = [ libffi readline icu zlib ]
-               ++ lib.optional stdenv.isDarwin libobjc;
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config perl python2 zip gnused_422 ];
-
-  postUnpack = "sourceRoot=\${sourceRoot}/js/src";
-
-  preConfigure = ''
-    export CXXFLAGS="-fpermissive"
-    export LIBXUL_DIST=$out
-    export PYTHON="${buildPackages.python2.interpreter}"
-  '';
-
-  configureFlags = [
-    "--enable-threadsafe"
-    "--with-system-ffi"
-    "--enable-posix-nspr-emulation"
-    "--with-system-zlib"
-    "--with-system-icu"
-    "--enable-readline"
-
-    # enabling these because they're wanted by 0ad. They may or may
-    # not be good defaults for other uses.
-    "--enable-gcgenerational"
-    "--enable-shared-js"
-  ] ++ optionals (stdenv.hostPlatform != stdenv.buildPlatform) [
-    # Spidermonkey seems to use different host/build terminology for cross
-    # compilation here.
-    "--host=${stdenv.buildPlatform.config}"
-    "--target=${stdenv.hostPlatform.config}"
-  ];
-
-  configurePlatforms = [];
-
-  depsBuildBuild = [ buildPackages.stdenv.cc ];
-
-  # This addresses some build system bug. It's quite likely to be safe
-  # to re-enable parallel builds if the source revision changes.
-  enableParallelBuilding = true;
-
-  postFixup = ''
-    # The headers are symlinks to a directory that doesn't get put
-    # into $out, so they end up broken. Fix that by just resolving the
-    # symlinks.
-    for i in $(find $out -type l); do
-      cp --remove-destination "$(readlink "$i")" "$i";
-    done
-  '';
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    description = "Mozilla's JavaScript engine written in C/C++";
-    homepage = "https://developer.mozilla.org/en/SpiderMonkey";
-    # TODO: MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license.
-
-    maintainers = [ maintainers.abbradar ];
-    platforms = platforms.unix;
-    knownVulnerabilities = [ "SpiderMonkey 38 is outdated and contains known security vulnerabilities." ]; # as per https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/SpiderMonkey/Releases/38
-  };
-}

pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix

@@ -695,6 +695,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   speedtest_cli = speedtest-cli;  # added 2015-02-17
   spice_gtk = spice-gtk; # added 2018-02-25
   spice_protocol = spice-protocol; # added 2018-02-25
+  spidermonkey_38 = throw "spidermonkey_38 has been removed. Please use spidermonkey_78 instead."; # added 2021-03-21
   spidermonkey_52 = throw "spidermonkey_52 has been removed. Please use spidermonkey_78 instead."; # added 2019-10-16
   spidermonkey_60 = throw "spidermonkey_60 has been removed. Please use spidermonkey_78 instead."; # added 2021-03-21
   spring-boot = spring-boot-cli; # added 2020-04-24

pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix

@@ -11804,11 +11804,6 @@ in
   sparkleshare = callPackage ../applications/version-management/sparkleshare { };
 
   spidermonkey_1_8_5 = callPackage ../development/interpreters/spidermonkey/1.8.5.nix { };
-  spidermonkey_38 = callPackage ../development/interpreters/spidermonkey/38.nix ({
-    inherit (darwin) libobjc;
-  } // (lib.optionalAttrs (stdenv.hostPlatform.isi686 && stdenv.cc.isGNU) {
-      stdenv = gcc6Stdenv; # with gcc-7: undefined reference to `__divmoddi4'
-  }));
   spidermonkey_68 = callPackage ../development/interpreters/spidermonkey/68.nix { };
   spidermonkey_78 = callPackage ../development/interpreters/spidermonkey/78.nix { };