Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 20:42:38 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net>, freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org, Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Arch" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [RFC] adding a variable to .mk and Makefile.inc1 to point to top of the FreeBSD source tree Message-ID: <CAGH67wSnH-gMSETqDS37VmMcJr130NaCiRfv4e7tNDdBzu5F8Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAGH67wTE_FoPsvFN5KuwpC80CW2t9hL_P6mKLDk4oR6G5dTzXw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAGH67wS21otQr1fBqQ2z=XQjUV30QUjdtyAkzC_Tf1Ts%2BPq%2B8g@mail.gmail.com> <20130507203906.GB40460@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <2E2C2F74-A25B-4B9F-84C4-0A434B8C7EE6@gmail.com> <AA6A95AC-7553-4ACD-83BC-7374ACF360D1@bsdimp.com> <CAGH67wTE_FoPsvFN5KuwpC80CW2t9hL_P6mKLDk4oR6G5dTzXw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On May 7, 2013, at 2:46 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>>
>> > On May 7, 2013, at 1:39 PM, Brooks Davis wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 01:05:07PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>> >>> Hi,
>> >>> A common pattern that I've seen at Isilon and something else that
>> I've
>> >>> wanted to have for a while is the ability to designate where the top
>> of a
>> >>> source tree was. This is important and helpful when dealing with
>> source
>> >>> files that build upon each other or depend on sources located in oth=
er
>> >>> sections of the tree; contrib stuff needs to set .PATH appropriately
>> to
>> >>> point to sources at the top of the tree, sys stuff is riddled with S=
=3D
>> in
>> >>> order to point to where /sys, etc lives, we build upon FreeBSD withi=
n
>> an
>> >>> expected directory structure as well.
>> >>> I haven't come up with a name, but was wondering if this was a goo=
d
>> >>> idea, and if so does anyone have any outstanding patches for this
>> that can
>> >>> be pushed into FreeBSD?
>> >>
>> >> I'd like to see this. There's a variable for this in NetBSD and I've
>> >> wanted to do this because it makes code easier to relocate within the
>> >> tree.
>> >
>> > This is another good reason. It would make porting code to/from
>> NetBSD a LOT easier=85 especially because I plan on pulling a lot of
>> test/test infrastructure code from NetBSD and I really don't want to com=
mit
>> too many local changes to the Makefiles. Less divergence -> better
>> cross-pollination -> less work for all -> win for the BSDs.
>> > Thanks for the reminder.. I'll base it off what NetBSD did :).
>>
>> SRCDIR
>>
>
> EVARINUSE?
>
> share/mk/bsd.doc.mk:# SRCDIR Directory where source files live.
> [${.CURDIR}]
> share/mk/bsd.doc.mk:TRFLAGS+=3D -I${SRCDIR}
> share/mk/bsd.doc.mk:.PATH: ${.CURDIR} ${SRCDIR}
> share/mk/bsd.doc.mk: cd ${SRCDIR}; \
> share/mk/bsd.doc.mk:SRCDIR?=3D ${.CURDIR}
> share/mk/bsd.doc.mk: cd ${SRCDIR}; ${UNROFF} ${MACROS} ${UNROFFFLAGS} =
\
> share/mk/bsd.doc.mk: cd ${SRCDIR}; ${UNROFF} -ms ${UNROFFFLAGS} \
> share/mk/bsd.info.mk:SRCDIR?=3D ${.CURDIR}
> ...
> share/doc/llvm/Makefile:SRCDIR=3D ${.CURDIR}/../../../contrib/llv=
m
> share/doc/llvm/Makefile:.PATH: ${SRCDIR} ${SRCDIR}/lib/Support
> share/doc/llvm/clang/Makefile:SRCDIR=3D
> ${.CURDIR}/../../../../contrib/llvm/tools/clang
> share/doc/llvm/clang/Makefile:.PATH: ${SRCDIR}
>
>
>> Once upon a time, this *HAD* to be set, and wasn't inferred from the
>> current top of the tree. Please, for the love of god, make sure that we
>> don't lose the infer from top of tree ability, or I will hurt you. Often=
.
>> Through all the minions that owe me minor favors.
>>
>
> I don't want to break that ever; it's a fantastic feature. If you could
> point me to where that magic awesomeness lives (make?), I'll be more than
> happy to address it in my branch where I'm going to do this.
>
> I really don't like how NetBSD turned their top-level build command into =
a
> shell script [in part because it needs to bootstrap a bunch of tools]. It
> makes things painful when doing iterative builds..
>
> So all in all, I completely and wholeheartedly agree with your concerns.
>
Oh sweet.. this is something to keep in mind too (from bsd.port.mk)...
# SRC_BASE - The root of the src tree. (Some ports require this to ge=
t
# kernel sources). Default: /usr/src
All else fails, ports has done it first -_-...
Not the first var I've seen this done with...
Thanks,
-Garrett
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