pkgs.testers.testBuildFailure

The following is the current implementation of this function.

testBuildFailure =
    drv:
    drv.overrideAttrs (orig: {
      builder = buildPackages.bash;
      args =
        [
          (replaceVars ./expect-failure.sh {
            coreutils = buildPackages.coreutils;
            vars = lib.toShellVars {
              outputNames = (orig.outputs or [ "out" ]);
            };
          })
          orig.realBuilder or stdenv.shell
        ]
        ++ orig.args or [
          "-e"
          ../../stdenv/generic/source-stdenv.sh
          (orig.builder or ../../stdenv/generic/default-builder.sh)
        ];
    });