This patch makes Python 3.4 or later a required tool for building
glibc, so allowing changes of awk, perl etc. code used in the build
and test to Python code without any such changes needing makefile
conditionals or to handle older Python versions.
This patch makes the configure test for Python check the version and
give an error if Python is missing or too old, and removes makefile
conditionals that are no longer needed. It does not itself convert
any code from another language to Python, and does not remove any
compatibility with older Python versions from existing scripts.
Tested for x86_64.
* configure.ac (PYTHON_PROG): Use AC_CHECK_PROG_VER. Set
critic_missing for versions before 3.4.
* configure: Regenerated.
* manual/install.texi (Tools for Compilation): Document
requirement for Python to build glibc.
* INSTALL: Regenerated.
* Rules [PYTHON]: Make code unconditional.
* benchtests/Makefile [PYTHON]: Likewise.
* conform/Makefile [PYTHON]: Likewise.
* manual/Makefile [PYTHON]: Likewise.
* math/Makefile [PYTHON]: Likewise.
This patch extends gen-libm-test.py to generate the ulps table for the
manual, so meaning there is only a single ulps file parser needed and
another Perl script is eliminated. As with the introduction of
gen-libm-test.py, this is designed to generate exactly the same
libm-err.texi as libm-err-tab.pl did. (gen-libm-test.py is still
shorter in lines than the old gen-libm-test.pl even after this patch.)
Note that this introduces a Python dependency for building the manual,
which is thus noted in install.texi and NEWS.
Tested building html / info / pdf versions of the manual.
* math/gen-libm-test.py: Import os.
(ALL_FLOATS_MANUAL): New constant.
(ALL_FLOATS_SUFFIX): Likewise.
(Ulps.all_functions): New function.
(real_all_ulps): Likewise.
(generate_err_table_sub): Likewise.
(generate_err_table): Likewise.
(main): Handle -s and -m options.
* manual/libm-err-tab.pl: Remove.
* manual/Makefile ($(objpfx)stamp-libm-err): Use gen-libm-test.py
instead of libm-err-tab.pl.
[$(PERL) != no]: Change condition to [$(if $(PYTHON),$(PERL),no)
!= no].
* manual/install.texi (Tools for Compilation): Document
requirement for Python to build manual.
* INSTALL: Regenerated.
glibc has an add-ons mechanism to allow additional software to be
integrated into the glibc build. Such add-ons may be within the glibc
source tree, or outside it at a path passed to the --enable-add-ons
configure option.
localedata and crypt were once add-ons, distributed in separate
release tarballs, but long since stopped using that mechanism.
Linuxthreads was always an add-on. Ports spent some time as an add-on
with separate release tarballs, then was first moved into the glibc
source tree, then had its sysdeps files moved into the main sysdeps
hierarchy so the add-ons mechanism was no longer used. NPTL spent
some time as an add-on in the main glibc tree before stopping using
the add-on mechanism. libidn used to have separate release tarballs
but no longer does so, but still uses the add-ons mechanism within the
glibc source tree. Various other software has supported building with
the add-ons mechanism at times in the past, but I don't think any is
still widely used.
Add-ons involve significant, little-used complexity in the glibc build
system, and make it hard to understand what the space of possible
glibc configurations is. This patch removes the add-ons mechanism.
libidn is now built via the Subdirs mechanism to cause any
configuration using sysdeps/unix/inet to build libidn; HAVE_LIBIDN
(which effectively means shared libraries are available) is now
defined via sysdeps/unix/inet/configure. Various references to
add-ons around the source tree are removed (in the case of maint.texi,
the example list of sysdeps directories is still very out of date).
Externally maintained ports should now put their files in the normal
sysdeps directory structure rather than being arranged as add-ons;
they probably need to change e.g. elf.h anyway, rather than actually
being able to work just as a drop-in subtree. Hurd libpthread should
be arranged similarly to NPTL, so some files might go in a
hurd-pthreads (or similar) top-level directory in glibc, while sysdeps
files should go in the normal sysdeps directory structure (possibly in
hurd or hurd-pthreads subdirectories, just as there are nptl
subdirectories in the sysdeps tree).
Tested for x86_64, and with build-many-glibcs.py.
* configure.ac (--enable-add-ons): Remove option.
(machine): Do not mention add-ons in comment.
(LIBC_PRECONFIGURE): Likewise.
(add_ons): Remove variable and sanity checks and logic to locate
add-ons.
(add_ons_automatic): Remove variable.
(configured_add_ons): Likewise.
(add_ons_sfx): Likewise.
(add_ons_pfx): Likewise.
(add_on_subdirs): Likewise.
(sysnames_add_ons): Likewise. Remove loop over add-ons and
consideration of add-ons in Implies handling.
(sysdeps_add_ons): Likewise.
* configure: Regenerated.
* libidn/configure.ac: Remove.
* libidn/configure: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/inet/configure.ac: New file.
* sysdeps/unix/inet/configure: New generated file.
* sysdeps/unix/inet/Subdirs: Add libidn.
* Makeconfig (sysdeps-srcdirs): Remove variable.
(+sysdep_dirs): Do not include $(sysdeps-srcdirs).
($(common-objpfx)config.status): Do not depend on add-on files.
($(common-objpfx)shlib-versions.v.i): Do not mention add-ons in
comment.
(all-subdirs): Do not include $(add-on-subdirs).
* Makefile (dist-prepare): Do not use $(sysdeps-add-ons).
* config.make.in (add-ons): Remove variable.
(add-on-subdirs): Likewise.
(sysdeps-add-ons): Likewise.
* manual/Makefile (add-chapters): Remove.
($(objpfx)texis): Do not depend on $(add-chapters).
(nonexamples): Do not handle $(add-chapters).
(examples): Do not handle $(add-ons).
(chapters.% top-menu.%): Do not pass '$(add-chapters)' to
libc-texinfo.sh.
* manual/install.texi (Installation): Do not mention add-ons.
(--enable-add-ons): Do not document configure option.
* INSTALL: Regenerated.
* manual/libc-texinfo.sh: Do not handle $2 add-ons argument.
* manual/maint.texi (Hierarchy Conventions): Do not mention
add-ons.
* scripts/build-many-glibcs.py (Glibc.build_glibc): Do not use
--enable-add-ons.
* scripts/gen-sorted.awk: Do not handle Subdirs files from
add-ons.
* scripts/test-installation.pl: Do not handle glibc-compat add-on.
* sysdeps/nptl/Makeconfig: Do not mention add-ons in comment.
The Summary is now generated from @standards, and syntax-checking is
performed. If invalid @standards syntax is detected, summary.pl will
fail, reporting all errors. Failure and error reporting is disabled
for now, however, since much of the manual is still incomplete
wrt. header and standards annotations.
Note that the sorting order of the Summary has changed; summary.pl
respects the locale, like summary.awk did, but the use of LC_ALL=C is
introduced in the Makefile. Other notable deviations are improved
detection of the annotated elements' names, which are used for
sorting, and improved detection of the @node used to reference into
the manual. The most noticeable difference in the rendered Summary is
that entries may now contain multiple lines, one for each header and
standard combination.
summary.pl accepts a `--help' option, which details the expected
syntax of @standards. If errors are reported, the user is directed to
this feature for further information.
* manual/Makefile: Generate summary.texi with summary.pl.
Force use of the C locale. Update Perl dependency comment.
* manual/header.texi: Update reference to summary.awk.
* manual/macros.texi: Refer authors to `summary.pl --help'.
* manual/summary.awk: Remove file.
* manual/summary.pl: New file. Generate summary.texi, and
check for @standards-related syntax errors.
* manual/argp.texi: Convert header and standards @comments to
@standards.
* manual/arith.texi: Likewise.
* manual/charset.texi: Likewise.
* manual/conf.texi: Likewise.
* manual/creature.texi: Likewise.
* manual/crypt.texi: Likewise.
* manual/ctype.texi: Likewise.
* manual/debug.texi: Likewise.
* manual/errno.texi: Likewise.
* manual/filesys.texi: Likewise.
* manual/getopt.texi: Likewise.
* manual/job.texi: Likewise.
* manual/lang.texi: Likewise.
* manual/llio.texi: Likewise.
* manual/locale.texi: Likewise.
* manual/math.texi: Likewise.
* manual/memory.texi: Likewise.
* manual/message.texi: Likewise.
* manual/pattern.texi: Likewise.
* manual/pipe.texi: Likewise.
* manual/process.texi: Likewise.
* manual/resource.texi: Likewise.
* manual/search.texi: Likewise.
* manual/setjmp.texi: Likewise.
* manual/signal.texi: Likewise.
* manual/socket.texi: Likewise.
* manual/startup.texi: Likewise.
* manual/stdio.texi: Likewise.
* manual/string.texi: Likewise.
* manual/sysinfo.texi: Likewise.
* manual/syslog.texi: Likewise.
* manual/terminal.texi: Likewise.
* manual/threads.texi: Likewise.
* manual/time.texi: Likewise.
* manual/users.texi: Likewise.
Create a new node for tunables documentation and add notes for the
malloc tunables.
* manual/tunables.texi: New chapter.
* manual/Makefile (chapters): Add it.
* manual/probes.texi (@node): Point to the Tunables chapter.
Do not try to generate the manual when perl is unavailable. This
matches the behavior when makeinfo is unavailable. Otherwise the
install step fails when trying to generate the libm section since
it runs a perl script.
for ChangeLog
* manual/Makefile ($(objpfx)stamp-summary): Require
check-safety.sh to pass.
* manual/check-safety.sh: Wish for verification that every
@deftypefn and @deftypefun is followed by a @safety remark.
In <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-01/msg00196.html> I
noted it was necessary to add includes of Makeconfig early in various
subdirectory makefiles for the tests-special variable settings added
by that patch to be conditional on configuration information. No-one
commented on the general question there of whether Makeconfig should
always be included immediately after the definition of subdir.
This patch implements that early inclusion of Makeconfig in each
directory (which is a lot easier than consistent placement of includes
of Rules). Includes are added if needed, or moved up if already
present. Subdirectory "all:" targets are removed, since Makeconfig
provides one.
There is potential for further cleanups I haven't done. Rules and
Makerules have code such as
ifneq "$(findstring env,$(origin headers))" ""
headers :=
endif
to override to empty any value of various variables that came from the
environment. I think there is a case for Makeconfig setting all the
subdirectory variables (other than subdir) to empty to ensure no
outside value is going to take effect if a subdirectory fails to
define a variable. (A list of such variables, possibly out of date
and incomplete, is in manual/maint.texi.) Rules and Makerules would
give errors if Makeconfig hadn't already been included, instead of
including it themselves. The special code to override values coming
from the environment would then be obsolete and could be removed.
Tested x86_64, including that installed binaries are identical before
and after the patch.
* argp/Makefile: Include Makeconfig immediately after defining
subdir.
* assert/Makefile: Likewise.
* benchtests/Makefile: Likewise.
* catgets/Makefile: Likewise.
* conform/Makefile: Likewise.
* crypt/Makefile: Likewise.
* csu/Makefile: Likewise.
(all): Remove target.
* ctype/Makefile: Include Makeconfig immediately after defining
subdir.
* debug/Makefile: Likewise.
* dirent/Makefile: Likewise.
* dlfcn/Makefile: Likewise.
* gmon/Makefile: Likewise.
* gnulib/Makefile: Likewise.
* grp/Makefile: Likewise.
* gshadow/Makefile: Likewise.
* hesiod/Makefile: Likewise.
* hurd/Makefile: Likewise.
(all): Remove target.
* iconvdata/Makefile: Include Makeconfig immediately after
defining subdir.
* inet/Makefile: Likewise.
* intl/Makefile: Likewise.
* io/Makefile: Likewise.
* libio/Makefile: Likewise.
(all): Remove target.
* locale/Makefile: Include Makeconfig immediately after defining
subdir.
* login/Makefile: Likewise.
* mach/Makefile: Likewise.
(all): Remove target.
* malloc/Makefile: Include Makeconfig immediately after defining
subdir.
(all): Remove target.
* manual/Makefile: Include Makeconfig immediately after defining
subdir.
* math/Makefile: Likewise.
* misc/Makefile: Likewise.
* nis/Makefile: Likewise.
* nss/Makefile: Likewise.
* po/Makefile: Likewise.
(all): Remove target.
* posix/Makefile: Include Makeconfig immediately after defining
subdir.
* pwd/Makefile: Likewise.
* resolv/Makefile: Likewise.
* resource/Makefile: Likewise.
* rt/Makefile: Likewise.
* setjmp/Makefile: Likewise.
* shadow/Makefile: Likewise.
* signal/Makefile: Likewise.
* socket/Makefile: Likewise.
* soft-fp/Makefile: Likewise.
* stdio-common/Makefile: Likewise.
* stdlib/Makefile: Likewise.
* streams/Makefile: Likewise.
* string/Makefile: Likewise.
* sunrpc/Makefile: Likewise.
(all): Remove target.
* sysvipc/Makefile: Include Makeconfig immediately after defining
subdir.
* termios/Makefile: Likewise.
* time/Makefile: Likewise.
* timezone/Makefile: Likewise.
(all): Remove target.
* wcsmbs/Makefile: Include Makeconfig immediately after defining
subdir.
* wctype/Makefile: Likewise.
libidn/ChangeLog:
* Makefile: Include Makeconfig immediately after defining subdir.
localedata/ChangeLog:
* Makefile: Include Makeconfig immediately after defining subdir.
(all): Remove target.
nptl/ChangeLog:
* Makefile: Include Makeconfig immediately after defining subdir.
nptl_db/ChangeLog:
* Makefile: Include Makeconfig immediately after defining subdir.
This patch adds a new "Inter-Process Communication"
chapter to cover the sem*, msg*, and shm* functions.
Initially we document only the sem* function signatures
and their safety notes.
This adds the base chapter for POSIX threads and also documentation
for thread-specific data, along with a note on its interaction with
C++11 thread_local variables.
[BZ #13743]
A new class of installed headers has been documented for low-level
platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
function to provide time base register access (__ppc_get_timebase). This
is required for applications that measure time at high frequencies with
high precision that can't afford a syscall.
[BZ #13750]
Do not build manual anymore in the source dir. Also clean up the
Makefile and remove rules that have been used previously
when we had a stand-alone Makefile which was obsoleted recently.
* manual/contrib.texi (Contributors): Fix cross reference.
* manual/libc.texinfo (Copying): Include freemanuals.
* manual/Makefile (appendices): Add freemanuals.
* manual/freemanuals.texi: New file.
Patch by Brian Youmans <3diff@gnu.org>.
* manual/libm-err-tab.pl: Pretty print more platforms, print a
smaller table.
* manual/math.texi (Errors in Math Functions): Fix grammar, start
table on separate page.
Patch by Brian Youmans <3diff@gnu.org>.
2001-07-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
* manual/argp.texi: Remove ignored LGPL copyright notice; it's
not appropriate for documentation anyway.
* manual/libc-texinfo.sh: "Library General Public License" ->
"Lesser General Public License".
2001-07-06 Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
* All files under GPL/LGPL version 2: Place under LGPL version
2.1.
