We have two concepts: a list of files that should be extracted from an
intermediate build artifact to be used in a later build artifact, and for a
given artifact, a list "donors". The first list was called "extract", because
it is passed to the .extract_objects() meson function, and the second was
called "objects", because that is the meson parameter to specify pre-built
objects files (6350d2dbd9). But this naming is
confusing: we don't care about the 'extract' step, this is something internal
to the build machinery. And 'objects' is a very generic term.
Let's use 'export' for the stuff that is "exported" for other binaries to use,
and 'import' to say where to import from. Those terms are symmetrical and the
association between them should be intuitive. (If you think the terms are
actually assymetrical, there are precedents for confusing the import with the
import sources. E.g. in modern English, turkeys are called so because they were
imported from the Americas and guineafowls were imported from Africa via
Türkiye and all that foreign stuff is alike.)
Our baseline glibc is 2.34, which merged libdl, libpthread (the
dependency('threads') target), and librt into libc. Empty .so/.a stubs
remain for backward compatibility with old binaries, but new builds
resolve dl_*, pthread_*, mq_*, timer_*, etc. directly from libc.
On musl the same libraries are likewise empty stubs.
Drop the libdl, threads, and librt entries from every meson.build, and
remove the now-stale 'Libs.private: -lrt -pthread' from libudev.pc.in
since both flags resolve to empty link-time stubs on glibc 2.34+ and
musl.
Verified with readelf -d that libsystemd.so, libudev.so, and systemd no
longer carry DT_NEEDED entries for libdl/libpthread/librt.
In all cases, everything that we list in 'extract', we also list in
'sources'. We can simplify things by automatically appending the first
list to the second.
In the listings, move 'extract' key right below 'sources', since now
they are both "sources", just with slightly different meanings.
Also, let's deflatten the lists of sources in preparation for the
next commit at the same time.
In systemctl, we split out systemctl-main.c to make sure the definition
of main() is in a separate object which allows us to extract the systemctl.c
object and link it in the fuzzer target without getting a multiple definition
error when linking.
Currently, when we want to add unit tests for code that is compiled into
an executable, we either compile the code at least twice (once for the
executable, and once for each test that uses it) or we create a static
library which is then used by both the executable and all the tests.
Both of these options are not ideal, compiling source files more than
once slows down the build for no reason and creating the intermediate
static libraries takes a lot of boilerplate.
Instead, let's use the extract_objects() method that meson exposes on
build targets. This allows us to extract the objects corresponding to
specific source files and use them in other executables. Because we
define all executables upfront into a dictionary, we integrate this into
the dictionary approach by adding two new fields:
- 'extract' takes a list of files for which objects should be extracted.
The extracted objects are stored in a dict keyed by the executable name
from which they were extracted.
- 'objects' takes the name of an executable from which the extracted
objects should be added to the current executable.
One side effect of this approach is that we can't build test executables
anymore without building the main executable, so we stop building test
executables unless we're also building the main executable. This allows
us to switch to using subdir_done() in all of these subdirectories to skip
parsing them if the corresponding component is disabled.
These changes get me down from 2439 => 2403 ninja targets on a full rebuild
from scratch.
Although this slightly more verbose it makes it much easier to reason
about. The code that produces the tests heavily benefits from this.
Test lists are also now sorted by test name.
The approach to use '''…'''.split() instead of a list of strings was initially
used when converting from automake because it allowed identical blocks of lines
to be used for both, making the conversion easier.
But over the years we have been using normal lists more and more, especially
when there were just a few filenames listed. This converts the rest.
No functional change.
Meson 0.58 has gotten quite bad with emitting a message every time
a quoted command is used:
Program /home/zbyszek/src/systemd-work/tools/meson-make-symlink.sh found: YES (/home/zbyszek/src/systemd-work/tools/meson-make-symlink.sh)
Program sh found: YES (/usr/bin/sh)
Program sh found: YES (/usr/bin/sh)
Program sh found: YES (/usr/bin/sh)
Program sh found: YES (/usr/bin/sh)
Program sh found: YES (/usr/bin/sh)
Program sh found: YES (/usr/bin/sh)
Program xsltproc found: YES (/usr/bin/xsltproc)
Configuring custom-entities.ent using configuration
Message: Skipping bootctl.1 because ENABLE_EFI is false
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Message: Skipping journal-remote.conf.5 because HAVE_MICROHTTPD is false
Message: Skipping journal-upload.conf.5 because HAVE_MICROHTTPD is false
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Message: Skipping loader.conf.5 because ENABLE_EFI is false
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
...
Let's suffer one message only for each command. Hopefully we can silence
even this when https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/8642 is
resolved.
This just adds a _cleanup_ helper call encapsulating dlclose().
This also means libsystemd-shared is linked against libdl now. I don't
think this is much of an issue, since libdl is part of glibc anyway, and
anything from exotic. It's not an optional part of the OS (think: NSS
requires dynamic linking), hence this pulls in no deps and is almost
certainly loaded into all process' memory anyway.
[zj: use DEFINE_TRIVIAL_CLEANUP_FUNC().]
Files which are installed as-is (any .service and other unit files, .conf
files, .policy files, etc), are left as is. My assumption is that SPDX
identifiers are not yet that well known, so it's better to retain the
extended header to avoid any doubt.
I also kept any copyright lines. We can probably remove them, but it'd nice to
obtain explicit acks from all involved authors before doing that.
Those files don't contain any @variables@, so the configuration step was just
copying them to build/. Let's avoid that, and fix their suffixes while at it.
So far I avoided adding license headers to meson files, but they are pretty
big and important and should carry license headers like everything else.
I added my own copyright, even though other people modified those files too.
But this is mostly symbolic, so I hope that's OK.
This didn't work during the initial conversion to meson, but should now.
A sufficiently new polkit is also required, for the .its rules files.
Note that https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/blob/master/docs/markdown/i18n-module.md
says that 'install' argument was added in meson 0.43.0. If this is accurate,
warnigs might be generated with older mesons. Fedora has 0.43.0 across the
board, but other distros probably don't, but I guess that a warning is
prefereable to having to update do latest meson.
The advantages are:
- one less dependency (intltool)
- using the generic implementation instead of our open-coded calls
- we don't need to use the fake "_" prefixes in XML
Replaces #1609, fixes#7300.
The advantage is that is the name is mispellt, cpp will warn us.
$ git grep -Ee "conf.set\('(HAVE|ENABLE)_" -l|xargs sed -r -i "s/conf.set\('(HAVE|ENABLE)_/conf.set10('\1_/"
$ git grep -Ee '#ifn?def (HAVE|ENABLE)' -l|xargs sed -r -i 's/#ifdef (HAVE|ENABLE)/#if \1/; s/#ifndef (HAVE|ENABLE)/#if ! \1/;'
$ git grep -Ee 'if.*defined\(HAVE' -l|xargs sed -i -r 's/defined\((HAVE_[A-Z0-9_]*)\)/\1/g'
$ git grep -Ee 'if.*defined\(ENABLE' -l|xargs sed -i -r 's/defined\((ENABLE_[A-Z0-9_]*)\)/\1/g'
+ manual changes to meson.build
squash! build-sys: use #if Y instead of #ifdef Y everywhere
v2:
- fix incorrect setting of HAVE_LIBIDN2
Using conf.set() with a boolean argument does the right thing:
either #ifdef or #undef. This means that conf.set can be used unconditionally.
Previously I used '1' as the placeholder value, and that needs to be changed to
'true' for consistency (under meson 1 cannot be used in boolean context). All
checks need to be adjusted.
The indentation for emacs'es meson-mode is added .dir-locals.
All files are reindented automatically, using the lasest meson-mode from git.
Indentation should now be fairly consistent.
Tests can be run with 'ninja-build test' or using 'mesontest'.
'-Dtests=unsafe' can be used to include the "unsafe" tests in the
test suite, same as with autotools.
v2:
- use more conf.get guards are optional components
- declare deps on generated headers for test-{af,arphrd,cap}-list
v3:
- define environment for tests
Most test don't need this, but to be consistent with autotools-based build, and
to avoid questions which tests need it and which don't, set the same environment
for all tests.
v4:
- rework test generation
Use a list of lists to define each test. This way we can reduce the
boilerplate somewhat, although the test listings are still pretty verbose. We
can also move the definitions of the tests to the subdirs. Unfortunately some
subdirs are included earlier than some of the libraries that test binaries
are linked to. So just dump all definitions of all tests that cannot be
defined earlier into src/test. The `executable` definitions are still at the
top level, so the binaries are compiled into the build root.
v5:
- tag test-dnssec-complex as manual
v6:
- fix HAVE_LIBZ typo
- add missing libgobject/libgio defs
- mark test-qcow2 as manual
It's crucial that we can build systemd using VS2010!
... er, wait, no, that's not the official reason. We need to shed old systems
by requring python 3! Oh, no, it's something else. Maybe we need to throw out
345 years of knowlege accumulated in autotools? Whatever, this new thing is
cool and shiny, let's use it.
This is not complete, I'm throwing it out here for your amusement and critique.
- rules for sd-boot are missing. Those might be quite complicated.
- rules for tests are missing too. Those are probably quite simple and
repetitive, but there's lots of them.
- it's likely that I didn't get all the conditions right, I only tested "full"
compilation where most deps are provided and nothing is disabled.
- busname.target and all .busname units are skipped on purpose.
Otherwise, installation into $DESTDIR has the same list of files and the
autoconf install, except for .la files.
It'd be great if people had a careful look at all the library linking options.
I added stuff until things compiled, and in the end there's much less linking
then in the old system. But it seems that there's still a lot of unnecessary
deps.
meson has a `shared_module` statement, which sounds like something appropriate
for our nss and pam modules. Unfortunately, I couldn't get it to work. For the
nss modules, we need an .so version of '2', but `shared_module` disallows the
version argument. For the pam module, it also didn't work, I forgot the reason.
The handling of .m4 and .in and .m4.in files is rather awkward. It's likely
that this could be simplified. If make support is ever dropped, I think it'd
make sense to switch to a different templating system so that two different
languages and not required, which would make everything simpler yet.
v2:
- use get_pkgconfig_variable
- use sh not bash
- use add_project_arguments
v3:
- drop required:true and fix progs/prog typo
v4:
- use find_library('bz2')
- add TTY_GID definition
- define __SANE_USERSPACE_TYPES__
- use join_paths(prefix, ...) is used on all paths to make them all absolute
v5:
- replace all declare_dependency's with []
- add more conf.get guards around optional components
v6:
- drop -pipe, -Wall which are the default in meson
- use compiler.has_function() and compiler.has_header_symbol instead of the
hand-rolled checks.
- fix duplication in 'liblibsystemd' library name
- use the right .sym file for pam_systemd
- rename 'compiler' to 'cc': shorter, and more idiomatic.
v7:
- use ENABLE_ENVIRONMENT_D not HAVE_ENVIRONMENT_D
- rename prefix to prefixdir, rootprefix to rootprefixdir
("prefix" is too common of a name and too easy to overwrite by mistake)
- wrap more stuff with conf.get('ENABLE...') == 1
- use rootprefix=='/' and rootbindir as install_dir, to fix paths under
split-usr==true.
v8:
- use .split() also for src/coredump. Now everything is consistent ;)
- add rootlibdir option and use it on the libraries that require it
v9:
- indentation
v10:
- fix check for qrencode and libaudit
v11:
- unify handling of executable paths, provide options for all progs
This makes the meson build behave slightly differently than the
autoconf-based one, because we always first try to find the executable in the
filesystem, and fall back to the default. I think different handling of
loadkeys, setfont, and telinit was just a historical accident.
In addition to checking in $PATH, also check /usr/sbin/, /sbin for programs.
In Fedora $PATH includes /usr/sbin, (and /sbin is is a symlink to /usr/sbin),
but in Debian, those directories are not included in the path.
C.f. https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/1576.
- call all the options 'xxx-path' for clarity.
- sort man/rules/meson.build properly so it's stable
