This patch is the most scary of all proposals I've been mailing to you
this week until now.
It consists of 3 parts:
1. a patch
2. a perl script (acpolish)
3. a shell script wrapper to invoke the perl-script.
The perl-script reads in each Makefile.in and modifies them
("polishes/beautifies" them :-).
These modifications are not easy to describe:
Basically, it hard-codes some automake Makefile-variables and rules into
RTEMS autoconf-Makefile.ins (Note: autoconf vs. automake!!) and converts
some settings/variables to configure scripts' requirements (Yes,
plural).
E.g. it adds the automake standard variables $top_builddir and $subdir,
adds dependency rules for automatic re-generation of Makefiles from
Makefile.in, adds support variables for relative paths to multiple
configure scripts etc.
The patch is a one-line patch to enable the support of the new features
added by acpolish.
The shell script is a wrapper which pokes around inside of the source
tree for Makefile.ins and invokes acpolish on all autoconf-Makefile.ins.
acpolish is designed to be able to run several times on the same
Makefile.in and may once become a more general tool to convert RTEMS
Makefile.in to automake. Therefore, I'd like to keep it inside of source
tree. (e.g. as contrib/acpolish or c/update-tools/acpolish). However, it
doesn't make sense to export it outside of RTEMS.
To apply this:
cd <source-tree>
patch -p1 -E < <path-to-patch>/rtems-rc-19990318-1.diff
tar xzvf <path-to>/rtems-rc-polish.tar.gz
./rtems-polish.sh
./autogen
Note: The path contrib/acpolish is hard-coded into rtems-polish.sh, if
you decide to put it in an alternative place, please modify
rtems-polish.sh to reflect this change.
Later:
cvs rm make/rtems.cfg (It isn't used anymore)
cvs add contrib
cvs add contrib/acpolish
cvs commit
I've tested this intensively, but naturally I can't exclude bugs.
Ralf.
PS.: Most probably, this is the last "Towards automake" patch. The next
one probably will be a real automake patch.
First, the unlimited patch. I have compiled the unlmited patch for the
Linux posix BSP only and it seems to work cleanly. I would like a really
major application run on this change before commiting as the changes are
very core and significant. I am currently building all the tests to run.
I have no targets suitable to test on at the moment.
I have tested the patch for inline functions and macros.
Turning macros on has found some core bugs. I have fixed these but have
not run all the tests. Please review the patch for these changes. They
are:
1) The conditional compilation for MP support broke the core messages
code. You cannot embed a conditional macro in another macro. The Send
and Urgent Send calls are macros.
2) User extensions handler initialisation now has two parameters. I have
updated the macros to support the extra parameter.
The patch also contains the gcc-target-default.cfg fix required to build
the kernel. More of a by product than a fix for you.
> 5) rtems-rc-19990202-1.diff/reorg-install.sh
>
> reorg-install.sh fixes a Makefile variable name clash of RTEMS
> configuration files and automake/autoconf standards.
> Until now, RTEMS used $(INSTALL) for install-if-change. Automake and
> autoconf use $(INSTALL) for a bsd-compatible install. As
> install-if-change and bsd-install are not compatible, I renamed all
> references to install-if-changed to $(INSTALL_CHANGED) and used
> $(INSTALL) for bsd-install (==automake/autoconf standard). When
> automake will be introduced install-if-change will probably be replaced
> by $(INSTALL) and therefore will slowly vanish. For the moment, this
> patch fixes a very nasty problem which prevents adding any automake file
> until now (There are still more).
overhaul of the RTEMS system call interface. This base file system is
the "In-Memory File System" aka IMFS.
The design and implementation was done by the following people:
+ Joel Sherrill (joel@OARcorp.com)
+ Jennifer Averett (jennifer@OARcorp.com)
+ Steve "Mr Mount" Salitasc (salitasc@OARcorp.com)
+ Kerwin Wade (wade@OARcorp.com)
PROBLEMS
========
+ It is VERY likely that merging this will break the UNIX port. This
can/will be fixed.
+ There is likely some reentrancy/mutual exclusion needed.
+ Eventually, there should be a "mini-IMFS" description table to
eliminate links, symlinks, etc to save memory. All you need to
have "classic RTEMS" functionality is technically directories
and device IO. All the rest could be left out to save memory.
