Here is another fix, which addresses a few more or less severe bugs in
configuration and unix/posix:
* Configuration fix: c/src/lib/configure.in didn't handle RDBG correctly
* Configuration fix: make depend was non-functional in
c/src/lib/libc/Makefile.in
* Configuration fix: stray comment removed from aclocal/target.m4
* RTEMS fix: termios support for unix/posix now uses the host's headers
only (was completely broken).
- Don't install RTEMS's newlib sys/termios.h for unix (sys/termios.h
apparently is a newlib specific header)
- To be able to compile RTEMS's termios.c with glibc2.1, glibc-2.1
needs __USE_MISC, which is a private define from gcc's features.h, being
defined only when _BSD_SOURCE of _SVID_SOURCE is defined. RTEMS's
termios apparently implements BSD, thus -D_BSD_SOURCE was added to
Linux-posix.cfg.
- Conflicting definitions for __USE_MISC and _BSD_SOURCE inside of
RTEMS codes removed due to definition of _BSD_SOURCE on the toplevel.
This fix has been tested with linux/posix (primary glibc2.1 native),
linux/posix (secondary libc5 native), sh/gensh1, i386/pc386 and a couple
of other bsp's/CPU.
To apply:
cd <srcdir>
patch -p1 < rtems-rc-19990709-9.diff
and
aclocal -I aclocal && automake && autoconf
cd c/src/lib; autoconf
or
./autogen
to move RTEMS more to automake/autoconf and GNU compliance.
Finally, here they are: the "big-patch" patches - merged into one big
patch (~1.5MB).
Sorry for the delay, but testing took much more time than I had expected
- esp. reworking the acpolish script triggered many more tiny issues
than I had expected (cf. below).
At least, now you've got something to spend your weekend with :-.
WARNINGS:
* I've gone a little (??) further than I had announced before.
* Several directories have been moved.
* Several files have been added and removed
* I have tested it with many BSPs/CPUs and a variety of permutiations of
configuration flags, but not with all.
* Most parts of the patch are automatically generated, however there are
many tiny manual modifications.
APPLYING THE PATCH:
./autogen -c
mkdir tools
mv c/src/exec/score/tools tools/cpu
mv c/build-tools tools/build
mv c/update-tools tools/update
patch -p1 -E < rtems-rc-19990709-0.diff
./autogen
If the patch doesn't apply to rtems-cvs, I would suggest that you should
try to apply it brute-force and then to run tools/update/rtems-polish.sh
-ac -am afterwards. A recursive diff between rtems-19990709 + patch and
rtems-cvs + patch then should report only a few dozen significant
changes to configuration files which need to be merged manually (IIRC, I
did not change any source files).
*** Attention: There are files to be removed, moved, copied and added
in/to CVS!
NEWS/CHANGES:
1. Configuration takes place in 3 stages: 1. per host (toplevel
configure script), 2. per target (c/configure), 3. per bsp
c/src/configure automatically triggered from ./configure and
c/Makefile.am.
2. Building of subdirectory c/ takes place in c/$(target_alias) for
cross-targets in c/ for native targets
3. Building of subdirectory c/src takes place in c/${target_alias}/<bsp>
for cross-targets, c/<bsp> for native targets
4. c/build-tools moved to tools/build
5. c/src/exec/score/cpu/tools moved to tools/cpu (=cpu-tools split out)
6. c/update-tools moved to tools/update
7. New subdirectory c/src/make, handles files from make/ on a per BSP
basis
8. Maintainer mode support: Ie. if configuring with
--enable-maintainer-mode disabled (the default), then tracking of many
dependencies will be disabled in Makefiles. Esp. many dependencies for
auto* generated files will be switched off in Makefiles. Ie. if not
using "--enable-maintainer-mode" many auto* generated files will not be
updated automatically, i.e. normal users should not be required to have
auto* tools anymore (untested).
9. Independent configuration scripts for / (toplevel), tools/build,
tools/cpu, tools/update, c/, c/src/, c/src/exec, c/src/lib, c/src/tests,
c/src/make
10. Automake support for all directories above and besides c/src
11. "preinstall" now is implemented as depth-first recursive make target
12. host compiled tools (exception bsp-tools) are accessed in location
in the build tree instead of inside the build-tree when building RTEMS.
13. RTEMS_ROOT and PROJECT_ROOT now point to directories inside the
build-tree - many tiny changes as consequence from this.
14. --with-cross-host support removed (offically announced obsolete by
cygnus)
15. Changing the order of building libraries below c/src/lib/
16. Former toplevel configure script broken into aclocal/*.m4 macros
17. Newlib now detected by configure macros, RTEMS_HAS_NEWLIB removed
from *cfg.
18. sptables.h now generated by autoconf
19. Rules for "mkinstalldirs temporary installation tree" moved from
c/Makefile to subdirectories.
20. Cpu-tools do not get installed.
21. FIX: Use ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS instead of ACLOCAL = -I ... in Makefile.ams
which are in directories with own configure scripts.
22. Hardcoding BSP names into libbsp/.../tools to avoid RTEMS_BSP get
overridden from the environment.
22. FIX: Handling of MP_PIECES in various Makefiles
23. FIX: Removing "::" rules from some Makefile.ins
24. FIX: File permission chaos: (-m 444 and -m 555 vs. -m 644 and -m
755) - Now all include files use -m 644.
25. Removed many gnumake-conditionals in Makefile.ins - Partially
replaced with automake-conditional, partially replaced with
conditionalized Makefile variables (... _yes_V)
26. Massively reworked acpolish: acpolish now parses Makefile.ins and
interprets parts of the Makefile.ins.
27. FIX: Some $(wildcard $(srcdir)/*.h) macros removed / replaced with
explicit lists of files in Makefile.ins.
28. FIX: Replacing MKLIB with RANLIB in Makefile.ins
29. HACK: Add preinstallation for pc386 specific
$(PROJECT_RELEASE)/BootImgs directory
... many more details, I can't recall
KNOWN BUGS:
1. make [debug|profile]_install do not do what they are promissing.
"make [debug|profile] install" does what "make [debug|profile]_install"
has been doing. Proposal: remove [debug|profile]_install
2. Dependencies between temporary installation tree and source tree are
not yet handled correctly.
3. Dependencies between temporary installation tree and source tree are
handled ineffencently (Using INSTALL_CHANGE instead of make
dependencies)
4. RTEMS_ROOT, PROJECT_ROOT, top_builddir, RTEMS_TOPdir now are
redundant.
5. The new configure scripts still are in their infancy. They contain
redundant checks and might still contain bugs, too.
6. RTEMS autoconf Makefile.ins use a mixture of configuration
information gathered in c/$(target_alias)/<bsp>/make and of information
collected from their configure scripts.
7. make dist is not fully functional
8. Subdirectory host-/build-/target- configure options (--target,
--host, --build) do not conform to Cygnus/GNU conventions.
9. Some RTEMS autoconf Makefile.in's makefile targets are not supported
in automake Makefile.ams/ins (e.g. get, clobber).
10. Some automake standard targets are not propagated from toplevel and
c/Makefile.am to autoconf subdirectories (eg. make dist).
11. rpcgen generated files are not part of the source-tree (Automake
conventions favor supplying generated files inside the source-tree,
however there is no support for rpcgen generated files in automake, cf.
yacc/lex support in automake).
12. RTEMS_HAS_RDBG handling is flaky. make/*.cfg use RTEMS_HAS_RDBG per
CPU, while librdb's sources can only be built per BSP. Raises the more
general question whether librdbg located correctly in the source-tree.
13. All make/*cfg files are configured per cpu, currently there is no
location to store per-bsp configuration information --> bsp.cfg, per
aconfig.h?
14. "make install" without having run "make all" beforehand does not
work.
15. handling of --enable-multiprocessing seems to be broken in
make/custom/*
16. Makefile.ins still exploit many gmake features.
17. File permisson chaos on libraries (no explict -m for
libraries/rels/etc).
18. mcp750 Makefiles are broken (Note: I *do* mean buggy - I am not
talking about "not-conforming to conventions", here :-).
19. Dependencies between configure scripts are not handled, eg. aborting
"make RTEMS_BSP=<bsp>" can leave the build-tree in an unusable state.
20. "make clean" does not delete <build-tree>/<bsp>. This is intentional
for now, because rerunning "make" after "make clean" requires an
explicit "make preinstall" afterwards now. This should be done
automatically, but doesn't work in this case for now. To work around
this problem <build-tree>/<bsp> is kept during "make clean" for now
(HACK).
TODO:
1. split out host-compiled bsp-tools
2. Use Cygnus/GNU standards for cross-compiling target-subdir
(CC=CC_FOR_TARGET .. configure --host=${target_alias}
--build=`config.guess'}), to be added to toplevel configure script after
splitting out bsp-tools.
3. Exploit per cpu support directory (c/src/<cpu>)- Splitting out
per-cpu libraries - Are there any?
4. Further automake support
5. Converting subdirectories into standalone / self-contained
subdirectories (Esp. moving their headers to the same common root as
their sources, eg. mv lib/include/rtems++
lib/librtems++/include/rtems++) - This is the main obstacle which
prevents moving further towards automake.
6. Propagating values from *.cfg into Makefiles instead of propagating
them at make time via Makefile-fragments (i.e. try to avoid using
*.cfg).
7. Testing on cygwin host (I *do* expect cygwin specific problems).
8. The ARCH in o-$(ARCH)-$(VARIANT) build-subdirectories is not needed
anymore.
GENERAL ISSUES:
1. Temporary installation tree -- Ian and I seem to disagree basically.
Though I think that I understand his argumentation, I do not share it.
IMO, his way of using the buildtree is mis-using the build-tree, relying
on an inofficial feature of RTEMS's current implementation, which
doesn't even work correctly in the current build-tree, though it
attempts hard to do so. From my very POV, it unnecessarily complicates
the structures of the source- and build-trees. It is not supported by
automake (No automatic generation for the necessary rules) and
complicates the transition to automake significantly (Generating the
rules with an enhanced version of acpolish could be possible).
As Ian correctly pointed out, here a management decision is needed -
though I don't see the need to draw this decision in short terms.
2. preinstallation generally is a sure means to spoil the structure of
the source tree, IMHO (No ranting intended, I am completly serious about
this one). eg. through tree dependencies. The worst problem related to
this I have found in the meantime is bsp_specs. bsp_specs is part of
libbsp, ie. there is *no* way to build *any* part of the source tree
*without* having a BSP *preinstalled*.
Note: This issue is related to issue 1., but is not identical - The
difference is the change of the order make rules have to be triggered.
While preinstallation triggers rules spread all over the source tree
before a "make all" can be run, a temporary installation tree could also
be installed by post "make all" hooks (all-local:, to be run after make
all in a directory is completed) if the directories' dependencies would
be a tree,
3. Stuctural dependencies between subdirectories.
4. Depth of the source tree (Prevents multilibbing and introduces many
unnecessary configure scripts).
5. per cpu vs. per bsp configuration (There are no real per-cpu parts
yets :-).
6. automake does not support $makefiles in AC_OUTPUT. Unlike before, we
now should try to avoid RTEMS_CHECK_MAKEFILE and to hard-code as much
paths to Makefiles as possible.
7. General redesign of the source tree
8. Main installation point - Changing it to ${prefix}/${target_alias}. ?
Besides item 8. (which is a must, IMHO), as far as I see most of them
can not be solved soon and will remain issues in the mid- to long-term
:-.
REMARKS:
* You (as the maintainer) should always use --enable-maintainer-mode
when building RTEMS to ensure that maintainer mode generated files (esp.
those in c/src/make) will be updated when make/* files have changed.
* Use @RTEMS_BSP@ in Makefile.ins and Makefile.ams below c/src/,
$(RTEMS_BSP) or ${RTEMS_BSP} will be overridden from environment
variables when using make RTEMS_BSP="....".
* c/src/make is a temporary cludge until configuration issues are
solved. At the moment it is configured per bsp, but contains
per-target/cpu info only. Its main purpose now is to circumvent
modifying make/*.cfg files, because I consider make/* to be frozen for
backward compatibilty.
* This patch should only affect configuration files. At least I do not
remember having touched any source files.
* To build the bare bsp you now need to mention it in --enable-rtemsbsp.
Example: building gensh1 and sh1/bare simultaneously:
../rtems-rc-19990709-1/configure --target=sh-rtems \
--enable-rtemsbsp="bare gensh1" \
--prefix=/tmp/rtems \
--enable-bare-cpu-cflags='-DMHZ=20 -m1
-DCPU_CONSOLE_DEVNAME=\"/dev/null\"' \
--enable-bare-cpu-model=sh7032 \
--enable-maintainer-mode \
--enable-cxx
make
make install
* The next steps in development would be to split out bsp-tools and then
to change to Cygnus/GNU canonicalization conventions for building the c/
subdirectory afterwards (i.e. many standard AC_*.m4 macros could be used
instead of customized versions)
FINAL REMARK:
The issues mentioned in the lists above sound much worser than the
situation actually is. Most of them are not specific to this patch, but
are also valid for the snapshot. I just wrote down what I came across
when working on the patch over the last few weeks.
I wouldn't be too surprised if you don't like the patch at the current
point in development. I am willing to discuss details and problems, I
also have no problem if you would post-pone applying this patch to times
after 4.1, but rejecting it as a whole for all times would be a false
management decision, IMHO.
Therefore I would suggest that you, if your time constaints allow it,
should at least play a little while with this patch to understand what
is going on and before drawing a decision on how to handle this
proposal. I know this patch is neither perfect nor complete, but I
consider it to be a major breakthrough. Don't be anxious because of the
size of the patch, the core of the patch is rather small, the size is
mainly the side effect of some systematic cleanups inside the Makefiles
(result of acpolish).
Feel free to ask if you encounter problems, if you don't understand
something or if you meet bugs - I am far from being perfect and am
prepared to answer them.
Ralf.
--
Ralf Corsepius
Forschungsinstitut fuer Anwendungsorientierte Wissensverarbeitung (FAW)
Helmholtzstr. 16, 89081 Ulm, Germany Tel: +49/731/501-8690
mailto:corsepiu@faw.uni-ulm.de FAX: +49/731/501-999
http://www.faw.uni-ulm.de
-- configure now fails to detect the toolchain for linux-posix.
As work-around, I have reverted to the old behavior of RTEMS_TARGET_CPU_NAME,
thus no_cpu/no_bsp will fail badly in configure again.
> When I run my script that just repeatedly builds different targets, some
> of them die with an error like this:
>
> Making all RTEMS_BSP=gen68360 in cpugmake[5]: Entering directory
> `/usr1/rtems/build/build-m68k-rtems/c/src/exec/score/cpu'
> Making all RTEMS_BSP=gen68360 in @RTEMS_CPU@
> /bin/sh: @RTEMS_CPU@: No such file or directory
> gmake[5]: *** [all] Error 1
> gmake[5]: Leaving directory
> `/usr1/rtems/build/build-m68k-rtems/c/src/exec/score/cpu'
>
> It is not always the same variable substitution that fails. Sometimes it
> is @INSTALL@. But reliably, it is a variable substitution that is
> failing.
>
> Do you have any idea why this happens?
Yep, I think I know what's going on.
AC_SUBST(RTEMS_CPU) is missing in configure.ins, thus @RTEMS_CPU@ in
target.cfg.in doesn't get substituted correctly, causing the bug above. Due
to the redundancy of RTEMS_CPU, other most BSPs don't seem to be affected.
Other similar problems probably exist for the unix/posix bsp and the hppa.1
cpu, because their */tools/*Makefile.ams require RTEMS_CPU, too.
This patch should fix the nastiest configuration bugs for no_cpu/no_bsp.
With this patch applied, configure --target=no_cpu-rtems now correctly
acknowledges its configuration, but later fails building when trying to
build libcsupport (I leave this problem for you :-).
Fixes/Changes:
* aclocal/canonicalize-target-name.m4: use RTEMS_CPU instead of
target_cpu, switch to a native compiler setup if target = no_cpu*rtems,
ie. implicitly use host=target (native) and RTEMS_CPU=no_cpu for
--target=no_cpu*rtems.
* add no_bsp/bsp_specs (Support -qrtems, -qrtems_debug; please check
before adding :-)
* Use RTEMS_CANONICALIZE_TARGET_CPU instead of AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM in
toplevel/configure.in
* All references to $target_cpu in aclocal/*.m4, Makefile.ins and *.cfg
files changed to RTEMS_CPU
* bug fixes to exec/score/cpu/no_cpu/wrap (This part of the patch may
result into patch rejections, because your recently posted patch may
also have addressed this problem).
After applying this patch, please do:
cvs add c/src/lib/libbsp/no_cpu/no_bsp/bsp_specs
./autogen
<corsepiu@faw.uni-ulm.de>:
This patch removes MKDIR from RTEMS source tree and fixes another small
bug in the definition of INSTALL_VARIANT (cf. to the patch itself for
details, it should be self-explanatory)
After applying the patch please do:
cvs rm aclocal/mkdir.m4
./autogen
FYI: I am not talking about using "make -C <dir>", which probably
is much faster on M$ hosts than RTEMS's implementation, but about
removing --enable-gmake-print support and to apply a variant of
automake's subdirectory.
Automake's subdirectory rule seems to be a little bit faster, but I
wouldn't bet on this.
Attached to this mail is my proposal.
After applying the patch, please run
cvs rm aclocal/enable-gmake-print.m4
./autogen
This patch addresses a few minor issues and contains a few (minor)
preparations for automake.
* configure.in: Fix for handing c/src/tests subdirectory handling (FIX)
* aclocal/rtems-top.m4:
+ Add TARGET_SUBDIR and --with-target-subdir (preparation of future
enhancements for cross-compiling)
+ Activate RTEMS_ROOT handling (automake preparation)
* automake/*.am: replace comments "#" with "##" so that comments won't
get included into Makefile.in's anymore
* c/update-tools/* automake support (NEW)
* ./autogen update/enhancement (cf. ./autogen for details)
After applying this patch please run:
./autogen
cvs add c/update-tools/configure.in
cvs add c/update-tools/Makefile.am
cvs add c/update-tools/aclocal.m4
rtems-rc-19990326-2.diff: Enhancements to autoconf support for librdbg
* autoconf-checks for AWK and RPCGEN
* disable librdbg if either AWK, RPCGEN or librdbg/$target_cpu
cannot be found
Yet some more modifications, I would recommend to be considered before
releasing a snapshot:
1. Cleanup to aclocal/
cvs rm -f aclocal/cygwin.m4
cvs rm -f aclocal/exeext.m4
They are neither used nor needed anymore, however they also don't
disturb (we use autoconf-2.13's AC_EXEEXT instead, now)
----------
2. rtems-rc-19990328-0.diff
Some (minor) bug-fixes:
* make/Templates/Makefile.inc.in: use the new installation directory
($(prefix)/ instead of $(prefix)/rtems/)
* c/src/exec/score/tools/generic/Makefile.am: added line to include local.am
* c/src/exec/score/tools/*/configure.in: added CVS Id header
----------
3. rtems-rc-19990328-1.diff
Enhancements and cleanups to autogen, rtems-polish.sh, configure.in etc.
* autogen: Use the file "VERSION" to detect RTEMS toplevel directory,
extended usage-message, use "find -print"
* c/update-tools/cipolish: New script to beautify configure.in scripts
* c/update-tools/rtems-polish.sh: Use the file "VERSION" to detect RTEMS
toplevel directory, extended usage-message, added variable for perl
scripts' subdirectory, use "find -print", cipolish support, new options
-ac -am -ci.
* aclocal/*.m4, configure.in: moved some AC_SUBST lines to aclocal/*.m4
(reduces size of configure.in
scripts, eases splitting configure.in scripts).
----------
description follows:
Description:
* automake for *all* tool subdirectories (Makefile.am, configure.in etc.)
* autogen now also considers CONFIG_HEADER (generates stamp-h.ins and
config.h.ins)
* c/src/tests/tools/generic/difftest and
c/src/tests/tools/generic/sorttimes generated by configure scripts
* c/update-tools/ampolish, beautifier for Makefile.ams, similar to
acpolish
* rtems-polish.sh added to c/update-tools/ + ampolish support
* New subdirectory ./automake, contains automake -Makefile fragments to
support RTEMS make "debug, debug_install, profile, profile_install" for
native Makefile.ams (== ignore these make targets).
* aclocal/rtems-top.m4's RTEMS_TOP now reads the automake makefile
variable VERSION from RTEMS ./VERSION file.
* ./configure.in uses the macros from aclocal + support for the tools'
configure scripts
Remarks:
* To run rtems-polish.sh, "cd <rtems-source-tree>;
./c/update-tools/rtems-polish.sh"
* AFAIS, now all native subdirectories are converted to automake (Please
drop me a note, if I forgot something).
* Unless you notice something fatal, IMO the time has come for a public
try (== snapshot). I do not intend to send more automake related patches
within, say 2 weeks, to give these patches time to settle and to give me
some time to think on how to continue.
* The patch assumes installation to the new main installation directory
[$(prefix)].
This is the first real automake patch.
It adds automake support to c/build-tools and cleans up a few minor
issues.
I consider this to be a testing probe to examine problems with automake.
Therefore, this patch is just a more or less harmless replacement of the
former RTEMS Makefiles and I expect it not last for long. If you want to
give automake Makefiles a public try and if you want/need to learn about
problems with it, then it's about time for a new snapshot, IMO. I may
have screwed up something not directly related to automake, but I expect
very few (none to be precise) problems with automake. However, somebody
should at least try building on Cygwin. If you feel a bit more
adventureous, then I also can continue to submit more patches.
[FYI: I still have a couple of automake files laying around, but they
need some cleanup before being submitted as patches. Now, that I am just
into it, I'll perhaps submit another one tonight :-]
After applying this patch (patch -p1 -E <
<path-to>/rtems-rc-19990318-0), first run the "autogen" script from the
toplevel source directory, before committing to CVS. Be careful about
dependencies between Makefile.am and Makefile.ins when cutting tarballs
from CVS. Makefile.ins are required to be newer than Makefile.ams,
otherwise users would need to have automake, autoconf and perl. Some
people recommend to "touch" all Makefile.in after checkout from cvs (cf.
egcs/contrib/egcs_update).
ATTENTION:
* This patch adds a number of new files.
* remove aclocal/exeext.m4 and aclocal/cygwin.m4 from CVS, They are now
covered by autoconf-2.13`s AC_EXEEXT.
Some features/side-effects which are probably interesting for you:
In a configured build-tree "cd c/build-tools", then try
* "make RTEMS_BSP=<bsp> install"
* "make RTEMS_BSP=<bsp> dist"
OK, I 've made up my mind to cut a big chunk of my automake-patches (:-).
Below you can find a drop-in replacement of the aclocal directory. It
contains a lot of new macro files, most of them are directly cut from rtems
top-level configure script, some are new some are identical to former
versions. The motivation behind these files is to reuse parts from rtems
current top-level configure.in script in up-coming subdirectory configure.in
scripts.
I'd like to ask you to untar the archive ontop of the source tree and to
add/commit these files to CVS. Adding these files should not have any
influence on RTEMS momentary configuration (except of you are required to
run aclocal -I aclocal && autoconf afterwards), because most of them
currently are not used at all.
---------
BTW: Please upgrade to autoconf-2.13 and automake-2.4, if you havn't done
this already (egcs/CVS require them, too). My upcoming automake files
require automake-2.4 which requires autoconf-2.13 or later.
automake:
Notes:
* I didn't yet touch the cpu subdirectory. I still need some time to
think on how to handle them.
* I probably will wait for the next snapshot before mailing more patches
(I still have some pending), giving you a chance to apply them and me a
chance to become target of the bullets which will probably be aimed at
me after these modifications.
and RPC support to RTEMS. Thanks. :) Email follows:
Hello,
For Xmas, here is the Remote Debugger on RTEMS !
Here are 2 patches for the Remote Debugger on RTEMS for pc386 from Linux
host :
- one for RTEMS it self,
- one for GDB-4.17.
1/ RTEMS patch
--------------
This patch adds 2 libraries :
- a simplified SUN RPC library
- the Remote Debugger library
The configuration command is the following :
../rtems4/configure --target=i386-rtemself --enable-rtemsbsp=pc386
--enable-rdbg
The SUN RPC library is built only if networking is set.
The RDBG library is built if networking and enable-rdbg are set.
The function used to initialize the debugger is :
rtems_rdbg_initialize ();
A special function has been created to force a task to be
in a "debug" state : enterRdbg().
The use of this function is not mandatory.
2/ GDB-4.17 patch
-----------------
This patch create a new RTEMS target for GDB-4.17.
The configuration command is the following :
./configure --enable-shared --target=i386RTEMS
To connect to a target, use :
target rtems [your_site_address]
Then, attach the target using : attach 1
And... Debug ;)
You can obtain the original GDB-4.17 on
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/source/devel/gdb_4.17.orig.tar.gz
This has been tested from a Debian 2.0.1 linux host.
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.
1. Rtems contains some perl scripts that use hard-coded paths to
/usr/bin/perl or /usr/local/bin/perl I have already fixed these
problems by adding some checks to configure.in. While doing this,
I also cleaned up some more autoconf related problems for generating
shell scripts. This patch might seem a bit scary to you, but I am
quite confident it won't break something (I've been testing it for
almost a week now, however it might introduce typos for a limited
number configurations I don't have access to - But it shouldn't be
a problem for you to test them :-).
I expect to get this finished tonight, hence you will very likely
have the patch when you get up tomorrow.
Changes:
* Check for PERL and disable all PERL scripts if perl wasn't found.
* Generate all KSHELL-scripts with autoconf instead of make-script
* Automatic dependency handling for autoconf generated KSHELL or PERL
scripts (make/rtems.cfg)
Notes:
* this patch contains new files and deletes some other files.
* The patch is relative to rtems-4.0.0-beta4 with my previous
rtems-rc-981014-1.diff patch applied.
Testing:
I tested it with sh-rtems and posix under linux. Now all targets
which are touched by this patch and which are not used while building
for sh-rtems and posix still need to be tested. AFAIS, only the
sparc/erc32 BSP should be affected by this criterion. And if you
like to, you should also consider testing it on a Cygwin32 and a
Solaris host for one arbitrary BSP.
2. "make profile" doesn't work. It aborts when building host-tools
for embedded targets. I didn't yet have enough time to fix this
problem. AFAIS this problem is related to handling of
LDFLAGS_PROFILE[|_V] in gcc.cfg.in. For host applications, we use
gcc for linking host applications, too. With profiling enabled
CFLAGS_PROFILE_V contains -pg and is used to compile, but
LDFLAGS_PROFILE_V is empty, hence -pg will not be passed to the
linker causing gcc to fail to link, because it can't resolve some
symbols introduced by compiling with -pg.
I am not sure if I can provide a patch for this - Ether it is trivial
to fix or requires basic work on host configuration ;-
Fixing this one was trivial - But hard to trace.
LDFLAGS_PROFILE_V needs to contain the same flags as CFLAGS_PROFILE_V,
if gcc is used for linking (What else should have been expected ?,
:-). The same problem was present for *_DEBUG_V, but apparently wasn't
noticed by anybody, because things didn't break, but were silently
ignored.
I fixed these problems by setting these flags in configure.in whenever
gcc is reported to be the host-compiler. For non-gcc host compilers
"make debug" and "make profile" now becomes the same as an ordinary
"make". This is a hack and addressing this problen could be more
sophisticated, but I don't think it gives much sense to support
compile variants for any host program (Who will ever try to
profile/debug host tools?). Therefore I don't think it's useful
to invest more effort into this problem.
As mentioned in other mails before, there is are minor inconsistencies in the
posix custom/*cfg files.
Linux-posix.cfg sets RTEMS_BSP=posix
FreeBSD-posix.cfg sets RTEMS_BSP=posix
Solaris-posix.cfg first sets RTEMS_BSP=posix, later it sets
RTEMS_BSP=solaris2
1. Setting RTEMS_BSP=posix is redunant to settings in default.cfg
2. The solaris variant of setting RTEMS_BSP is merely non-functional.
The patch attached to this mail should clean up this issue.
The patch was tested by building the posix bsp under
i686-pc-linux-glibc1/glibc2 and Solaris2.6 (I did not run any
rtems program, however) The HPUX9 and FreeBSD configuration files
were adapted in analogy to the solaris and linux configurations.
test were suggested by Ian Taylor <ian@airs.com> and Joel did the
hard part of putting it in aclocal and editting all the offending
Makefiles and source code which could use this feature.
Here is another patch to hopefully enhance rtems' configuration.
Motivation: Try to support other c-compilers besides gcc (I tried to
build rtems under Solaris using sun's WSPro c-compiler).
Here is a couple of small patches concerning the host compiler
configuration, which fix/work-around the worst problems when using sun's
WSPro c-compiler.
Changes:
* Replaced make/compilers/gcc.cfg with make/compilers/gcc.cfg.in, ie.
gcc.cfg is generated by configure now.
* Removed a line containing a hard-coded "gcc" from gcc.cfg (BUG-fix).
* Add -g to host compiler flags only if configure reported -g to work
* Add -Wall to host compiler flags only if configure reported that the
host compiler is gcc (WSPro's cc chokes on -Wall).
* Some modifications to make/Makefile.in
* Adapted make/custom/default.cfg to the new location of gcc.cfg
BTW, gcc.cfg/gcc.cfg.in seems to be full of unused code (DEBUG-VARIANTS
etc.) which deserves to be cleaned up, IMO.
IMO, a similar patch should be applied to gcc-target-default.cfg
make solaris target buildable.
> 1. The ipc check fails since solaris does not define union semun.
> The unix port code actually defines this type itself on solaris. Doing
> the same thing lets it get configured. Then...
> 2. It looks like BSDINSTALL is not defined properly.
BSDINSTALL is defined in make/host.cfg.in as
BSDINSTALL=@INSTALL@
@INSTALL@ is generated by autoconf's standard macro AC_PROG_INSTALL, which
is widely used in almost any autoconf/automake configured package. In case
there is really something wrong with it, then it must be considered a bug
in autoconf.
I can see a doubious fragment in AC_PROG_INSTALL, which is used when no
appropriate bsd-install is found.
Finally Ralf saw a problem with the find on solaris which I also saw and
fixed.
Here is a enhanced version of my previous patch. This patch enables
to potentially share the new interrupt management code for all Intel targets
(pc386, go32 and force386) bsp.
Note : this patch is complete only for pc386. It still needs to
be completed for go32 and force386. I carrefully checked
that anything needed is in for force386 (only some function
name changes for IDT manipulation and GDT segment
manipulation). But anyway I will not be able to test any
of theses targets...
<corsepiu@faw.uni-ulm.de> which attempts to detect when the UNIX port
is being configured on a system without System V IPC support. This
is an optional component on both FreeBSD and Linux systems. Most
Linux 2.x kernels ship with it enabled but it is still a real risk.
This test may have undesirable side-effects on some hosts. We will
address those conflicts as they arise.
made no attempt to divide the comments up and place them with just
the appropriate files. Here is an excerpt from Ralf's email:
Changes including comments on changes I made after cycling through
all the targets:
* Added ranlib support. Now all targets use "ranlib" instead of "ar -s"
to build an index for a library. If ranlib isn't detected during
configuration, check if ar -s is working and try "ar -s" instead of
* Removed $(XXX_FOR_TARGET) from make/target.cfg.in, use $(XXX) instead now.
* gcc-target-default.cfg: LINK_XXXX-defines reworked to solve the -l
problem under posix (cf gcc-target-default.cfg)
* rtems-glom replaced by Makefile-rules inside of the wrapup/Makefile.in
that has been using rtems-glom until now.
* Removed CCC and friends in gcc-target-default.cfg, as they have been
breaking CXX support.
* Removed CONFIG.$(TARGET_ARCH).CC lines from several custom/*.cfg
files, because this is now set in custom/default.cfg.
* Added aclocal/ar-s.m4, check whether "ar -s" is working
* Added aclocal/cygwin.m4 and aclocal/exeext.m4.
* Reworked aclocal/canonicalize-tools.m4: Added ar -s check; fixes for
problems when XXX_FOR_TARGET is given via environment variables (didn't
work for gcc until now), adding cygwin check, improved autoconf-cache
handling.
* Removed -l from make rule dependencies. LINK_LIBS is now allowed to
contain -L and -l. LINK_OBJS and LINK_FILES must not contain -L or -l.
gcc28 make-exe rules now link using $(LINK_OBJS) $(LINK_LIBS) => Almost
all custom/*.cfg are modified. This is very likely to break something
because of typos or having missed to edit a file.
Open problems, known bugs, things I didn't do:
* custom/p4000.cfg seems to be out of date and requires to be reviewed.
(JRS NOTE: It is subordinate p4650 and p4600 -- both of which build ok
after minor changes.)
* custom/psim.cfg needs to be reviewed, I added some changes to it, I am
insecure about.
(JRS NOTE: psim had a minor problem endif/endef swapped but runs fine.)
* rtems-glom.in can now be removed.
* gcc*.cfg files "make depend" rules don't honor language specific flags
(e.g CXXFLAGS is ignored for *.cc) - Nothing to worry about now, but may
cause problems for hosts/targets not using gcc or rtems-add-ons that use
external packages.
* AFAIS, the no_bsp BSP can't be build anymore, i.e. configure refused
to configure for it whatever I tried.
* The toplevel and toplevel+1 README files are quite out-dated
* cygwin.m4 isn't of much use for rtems. In most cases (cf.
aclocal/*.m4) it is worked around by directly using $host_os. I think
I'll remove it soon after the next snapshot
* Before release the cygwin patch needs to be tested under cygwin. I may
have broken/missed something (esp. the sed-pattern to convert \\ into /
may be broken).
* You should try to build/run the posix-BSP under solaris - I don't
expect problems, but I am not 100% sure, esp. with regard to ranlib/ar -s.
* You should consider to convert all make/compilers/*.cfg files into
make/compilers/*.cfg.in files and let autoconf generate the *.cfg. This
may help getting rid of some if/then/else statements and help
hard-coding some defines into those files in future and shouldn't
disturb now.
* Not having installed libc.a/libm.a on a host may still break building
rtems, esp. when using -disable-gcc28 as the gcc27-configuration scheme
directly accesses libc.a and libm.a. The problem should not appear when
using gcc28 because it references libc/libm only through -lc and -lm
which may be static or dynamic (I didn't test this).
* shgen is not yet included (I didn't yet have enough time to integrate it).
* I know about a few more configure-probs (esp. cross-checking
--enable-* flags).
+ warn/refuse to configure when --enable-libcdir and
--enable-gcc28 are given.
+ force --enable-libcdir when --disable-gcc28 is given
* Replaced KSHELL with @KSH@ in some shell scripts generated by configure.in.
* Added a dependency to aclocal/*.m4 in the toplevel Makefile => configure
and aclocal.m4 will now be rebuild when any aclocal/*.m4 file is changed
* Some changes to aclocal/gcc-pipe.m4 and aclocal/gcc-specs.m4
* Replaced i[[3456]]86-unknown-freebsd2.[[12]] with i[[3456]]86-*freebsd2.*
in configure.in, as I suppose there might exist a variety of valid vendors
(2nd field of the name-tripple)
* Disabled override MAKEFLAGS in toplevel Makefile.in - Potential
side-effects are not really clear to me.
* In mvme162.cfg, $(LINK_LIBS) is missing in the CC line in gcc28's make-exe
rule (yet another one I missed to edit). Just append $(LINK_LIBS) to
the "CC" line, like I hopefully did to ALL other custom/*.cfg files.
* the problem with mvme162lx.cfg is a follow-up problem of the
mvme162.cfg-bug.
* mvme162/console and idp/console had variables named Buffer which
conflicted with similarly named variables in some tests.
