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This is documentation of the Makefile system used in this tree.
General Overview:
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This tree builds dozens of open source modules that are each released
separately and delivered as source in seperate tarballs. These modules
are organized in subdirectories based on the X.Org module list, though
modules from other sources are included as appropriate. For instance,
the application xterm is built in open-src/app/xterm, while the fontconfig
library is in open-src/lib/fontconfig.
In this tree, the term "module" is used for a specific set of source built
generally from a single tarball from upstream, such as xterm or fontconfig.
The directories grouping these together are referred to as "module type"
directories - app, lib, font, etc. Each module is thus found in a
subdirectory of the form open-src/<module type>/<module> . Various flags
can be set at either the individual module level or for all modules of a
module type.
For each module, at build time the tarball is unpacked, patches applied for
post-release bug fixes or customizations, and then the build is run.
To allow building both 32-bit and 64-bit versions in the same build,
this all happens in subdirectories named build_32 & build_64 in each
modules' directory. Since those subdirectories are competely recreatable
from the source tarball and patches, rebuilding the tree or running make clean
simply removes them entirely and recreates them.
You should be able to run make commands in any module directory or
module-type directory, though since most of the intermodule dependencies
are not declared, many modules will break unless you've done a full-tree
build at some point to populate the proto area with the bits needed.
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Make targets you can build in each module:
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For most of these you can append _32 or _64 to do just the 32-bit or 64-bit
versions of the targets, while the version listed here repeats for all build
types set in the BUILD_TYPES variable. These are defined in the
open-src/common/Makefile.inc file, though open-src/<module type>/Makefile.inc
may add additional rules needed for modules of that type.
make clean
Completely removes build_* directories.
make source
Creates build_* directories by unpacking sources from tarball
and applying patches.
make configure
Runs GNU autoconf script or similar configuration steps if
needed, including autoreconf or delibtoolize if variables are set.
(Runs make source first if needed.)
make build
Compile the software into the binaries that get installed.
(Runs make configure first if needed.)
make install
Install files into the proto area where make_release_packages
will pull them from to make packages and where other parts of
the build will use them. (Runs make build first if needed.)
make all (or just "make" with no arguments)
equivalent to make build for most modules
make debug
same as make all, but with compiler optimization flags changed
to "-g". (Note that if you haven't done a make clean first,
doesn't force a recompile, so running make debug in a directory
you already built non-debug may not actually build debug versions.)
make debug-install
same as make install, but with compiler optimization flags changed
to "-g". (See warning on make debug about doing a make clean first.)
make download
If open-src/tarballs does not contain the tarball needed for this
module, download it from $(SOURCE_URL). (See "Building from git"
section below if MODULE_VERSION=git.)
make regen-patches
Create a directory new/ containing patches generated against the
current tarball. Useful when updating to a new version and patches
still apply, but you want to get rid of warnings about patch fuzz
and line offsets.
make git-update
See "Building from git" section below.
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Make targets you can build in parent directories:
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In the top-level open-src directory, or any of the module type directories,
you can run these make commands to run the appropriate targets for all modules
in that directory. The Makefiles at each level all include the same rules
from open-src/common/Makefile.subdirs to define these.
make all
Run make all in all subdirectories.
make clean
Run make clean in all subdirectories.
make World
Run make clean in all subdirectories, then make all in all subdirs.
make install
Run make install in all subdirectories.
make download
Run make download in all subdirectories.
make source
Run make source in all subdirectories.
make git-update
Run make git-update in all subdirectories.
make debug-build
Run make debug-build in all subdirectories.
make debug-install
Run make debug-install in all subdirectories.
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Variables that can be set in the Makefile for each module:
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Required for all modules:
MODULE_NAME
- Name of the module being built - usually the same as the name of the
directory it's being built in and the tarball used for the sources.
MODULE_VERSION
- Version of the source to use, used by default in the tarball name and
source directory unpacked from it.
- Special values:
"git" - see "Building from git" below
"src" - used when there is no upstream tarball, only local sources
"NONE" - used when no build_* directories are created
Required for some modules:
SUN_PACKAGE
- Package name that this module is shipped in, to list in attributes section
of man page
* Required if SUNTOUCHED_MANPAGES is not empty
MODULE_STABILITY
- Interface Stability to list in attributes section of man page
* Required if SUNTOUCHED_MANPAGES is not empty
LIBNAME
- Name of library built in this module
* Required for lib modules if SUNTOUCHED_MANPAGES is not empty
or if *.spec files are being used to set library versioning information.
Optional, default is empty:
SOURCE_UNCOMPRESS
- Command to use to uncompress tarball, if not bzcat
SOURCE_PATCHES
- Patches to apply to the sources after unpacking the tarball
Entries can be either a simple file name or filename,flags
to specify flags to be passed to gpatch. The flags argument
is most commonly used to specify -p1 to ignore the a/ & b/ path
prefixes in git-generated patch files - if no flags are specified,
-p0 is passed to treat paths as relative to the top of $(BUILD_DIR).
ADDITIONAL_SOURCE_DIR
- Directory containing additional source files to be linked into the
build directory by the default_source rule.
SUNTOUCHED_MANPAGES
- Man pages to add Solaris attributes section and other common Solaris
man page conventions to, via the open-src/common/suntouch-manpages.pl
script.
MODULE_SUNTOUCH_MAN_FLAGS
- Additional flags to pass to open-src/common/suntouch-manpages.pl, such as
-p /usr/X11/bin to add a path of /usr/X11/bin to the command in the
synopsis. Available flags are:
-a '{attribute, value}, ...' - entries for Attributes section table
-l libname - add library line to synopsis
-p path - add path to command in synopsis
FIX_PC_FILES
- Names of pkgconfig .pc or .pc.in files in the module, which will be
"fixed" to add required -R flags for linking libraries with and remove
unnecessary Requires.privates lines from.
MODULE_SOURCE_DEPS, MODULE_CONFIGURE_DEPS,
MODULE_BUILD_DEPS, MODULE_INSTALL_DEPS
- Makefile targets/rules that the default_* rules list as dependencies
MODULE_CONFIG_OPTS
- Additional arguments passed to configure script by default_config rule
MODULE_CONFIG_ENV
- Additional environment variables passed to configure script
by default_config rule
MODULE_CFLAGS
- C Compiler flags passed to configure via CFLAGS variable by
default_config rule.
MODULE_CXXFLAGS
- C++ Compiler flags passed to configure via CXXFLAGS variable by
default_config rule.
MODULE_CPPFLAGS
- C preprocessor flags (-I & -D) passed to configure via CPPFLAGS
variable by default_config rule.
MODULE_LDFLAGS
- Linker flags passed to configure via LDFLAGS variable by default_config
rule.
USE_DEFAULT_CONFIG_CPPFLAGS
- If set to "no", don't pass the normal set of -I flags in CPPFLAGS
to configure script in default_config rule. MODULE_CPPFLAGS and
MODTYPE_CPPFLAGS will still be passed.
USE_DEFAULT_CONFIG_LDFLAGS
- If set to "no", don't pass the normal set of linker flags in LDFLAGS
to configure script in default_config rule. MODULE_LDFLAGS and
MODTYPE_LDFLAGS will still be passed.
USE_DEFAULT_CONFIG_ENV
- If set to "no", don't pass the normal set of default environment variables
to configure script in default_config rule. MODULE_CONFIG_ENV and
MODTYPE_CONFIG_ENG will still be passed.
AUTORECONF
- If set to "yes", the default_config rule will run autoreconf before
running configure, to regenerate autoconf/automake/libtool created
files after patches have been applied to the *.ac/*.am/*.in source files.
DELIBTOOLIZE
- If set to "yes", the default_config rule will run the script
open-src/common/delibtoolize.pl to remove libtool calls from Makefiles
after running configure.
MODULE_LD_OPTIONS
- Additional options passed via LD_OPTIONS environment variable to
force options to be used by ld, regardless of options passed by
libtool/compiler etc. Used by default_build & default_install rules.
MODULE_BUILD_ENV
- Additional environment variables passed when calling make
by default_build & default_install rules
MODULE_MAKEFLAGS
- Additional command line arguments passed when calling make
by default_build & default_install
MODULE_BUILD_MAKEFLAGS
- Additional command line arguments passed when calling make
by default_build
MODULE_INSTALL_MAKEFLAGS
- Additional command line arguments passed when calling make
by default_install
EXTRA_LICENSES
- Additional files containing copyright & license information for this module,
beyond what's in LICENSE_FILE, such as subsets for specific packages.
Will be copied under their own names to $(PROTODIR)/licenses/<path>/
for use by include statements in package copyright.add files, where
path is the same as the directory & subdirectory the module source is in.
Files are looked for relative to module directory, include $(SOURCE_DIR)/
in the filename to look relative to the top-level source directory.
Optional, with non-empty default:
* Important, for these, to override the default values, you must not only
set the variable, but set another variable <variable>_SET=yes before the
Makefile.inc is included to prevent the default from being set. For
example:
SOURCE_URL=http://fontconfig.org/release/$(SOURCE_TARBALL_NAME)
SOURCE_URL_SET=yes
MODULE_COMPILER
- Compiler to use, either "suncc" or "gcc".
Default: $(DEFAULT_COMPILER) setting in common/Makefile.init,
which is set to suncc in the master sources.
MODULE_MAKE
- make command to use, either "$(MAKE)" or "$(GNUMAKE)".
Default: "$(MAKE)" (which is assumed to be Solaris make, not GNU).
MODULE_PREFIX
- Prefix to install files under, passed to configure scripts via --prefix.
Default: $(X11_DIR) (aka /usr/X11).
SOURCE_DIRNAME
- Directory that will be created when the source tarball is unpacked.
Default: $(MODULE_NAME)-$(MODULE_VERSION)
SOURCE_TARBALL_NAME
- Name of tarball file under open-src/tarballs directory for this module.
Set to "NONE" if there is no upstream tarball.
Default: $(SOURCE_DIRNAME).tar.bz2
SOURCE_TARBALL_DIR
- For X.Org sources, what directory the source tarball & git repo is in
on freedesktop.org - usually the same as the module type directory in
this tree.
Default: $(MODTYPE)
SOURCE_URL
- URL to download the SOURCE_TARBALL from when running "make download"
Default: $(XORG_RELEASES_URL)/$(SOURCE_TARBALL_DIR)/$(SOURCE_TARBALL_NAME)
GIT_URL
- URL to check out the current sources via the git code manager if
MODULE_VERSION is set to "git" - see "Building from git" below
Default: $(XORG_GIT_URL)/$(SOURCE_TARBALL_DIR)/$(MODULE_NAME).git
BUILD_TYPES
- What type of output to build for this module - usually the word-size of
the binaries built (32 and/or 64), but may be set to any string if other
distinctions are useful. For most modules that don't build binaries,
(fonts, proto headers, docs, etc.) it's set to 32 for simplicity.
For each value xx in this list, a build_xx directory will be made and
the source_xx, configure_xx, build_xx and install_xx rules run.
Default: 32
SOURCE_TARGETS, CONFIGURE_TARGETS, BUILD_TARGETS, INSTALL_TARGETS
- Makefile targets/rules to run for "make source", "make configure",
"make build", and "make install"
Defaults: default_source, default_configure, default_build, default_install
AUTOCONF_TARGET
- File created by running the default_configure rule. If this file exists,
make will not run the default_configure rule - if it does not exist, it
will be run.
Default: $(SOURCE_DIR)/Makefile
LICENSE_FILE
- File containing copyright & license information for this module.
Will be copied to $(PROTODIR)/licenses/<path>/COPYING
for use by include statements in package copyright.add files, where
path is the same as the directory & subdirectory the module source is in.
File is looked for first in module directory, if not found there,
in top-level source directory (SOURCE_DIR).
Default: COPYING
MODULE_MTLEVEL
- For modules in the lib directory, Multi-thread safety level to list in
attributes section of SUNTOUCHED_MANPAGES
Default: See XInitThreads(3X11)
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Variables that can be set in the Makefile.inc for each module type:
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Some settings are common to most, if not all of the modules of a given
type. For those, these variables can be set in
open-src/<module_type>/Makefile.inc - they have the same meanings and uses
as the MODULE_* versions documented above, and appear in commands before
the MODULE_* versions - the general pattern is
foo=<tree-wide-defaults> $(MODTYPE_foo) $(MODULE_foo)
Required for all module types:
MODTYPE
- Name of the directory for this module type, usually the same as the
directory for the module type in X.Org's source trees.
Optional, default is empty:
- MODTYPE_SUNTOUCH_MAN_FLAGS
- MODTYPE_SOURCE_DEPS
- MODTYPE_CONFIGURE_DEPS
- MODTYPE_BUILD_DEPS
- MODTYPE_INSTALL_DEPS
- MODTYPE_CONFIG_OPTS
- MODTYPE_CONFIG_ENV
- MODTYPE_CFLAGS
- MODTYPE_CXXFLAGS
- MODTYPE_CPPFLAGS
- MODTYPE_LDFLAGS
- MODTYPE_LD_OPTIONS
- MODTYPE_BUILD_ENV
- MODTYPE_MAKEFLAGS
- MODTYPE_BUILD_MAKEFLAGS
- MODTYPE_INSTALL_MAKEFLAGS
Optional, with non-empty default:
[See note in module variable section about setting _SET variables to override]
- MODTYPE_COMPILER
- MODTYPE_MAKE
- MODTYPE_PREFIX
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Setting per-platform variables:
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open-src/common/Makefile.init defines $MACH to be either sparc or i386
for the platform being built. You can reference this variable in the
names of other variables to set different values for each platform.
For instance, to build only 64-bit on SPARC, but both 32-bit and 64-bit
on x86/x64, you can do:
BUILD_TYPES_sparc=64
BUILD_TYPES_i386=32 64
BUILD_TYPES=$(BUILD_TYPES_$(MACH))
BUILD_TYPES_SET=yes
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Variables you may want to customize for your site/tree:
XORG_RELEASES_URL & SF_DOWNLOADS_URL (set in open-src/common/Makefile.init)
- urls for X.Org & sourceforge mirrors to download tarballs from
FDO_GIT_URL (set in open-src/common/Makefile.init)
- url for git repositories hosted on freedesktop.org, including
X.Org, Mesa, pixman, etc. - defaults to anonymous git over http, can
change to use another protocol if needed
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Tools for developers to use:
Some tools to ease development are available in the util/build-tools
directory of the tree.
find-build-errors - looks for a log/buildit-XW file (or another file you
specify on the command line) and tries to isolate out just the
build errors for easier reading than the raw build logs.
If you did buildit -p, also shows packaging errors.
xmake - when you change one file in a large module like xserver and just
want to rebuild in that subdirectory of the build_32 or build_64
tree, running xmake will attempt to run make or gmake in that
directory with the same flags and environment variables that would
be passed from running make in the module make directory
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Building from git:
For debugging and development purposes, such as working on the merge of
a X.org release still in development, you can choose to to check out a
the upstream sources from a the git repository instead of a tarball.
You must *NOT* check in to the master gate a module using this feature,
since this would produce a build that's not reproducible and changing
unexpectedly.
To use this, set MODULE_VERSION to "git" in a module's Makefile.
To check out a branch other than master, add GIT_BRANCH="branch-name".
Once you've done this "make download" will clone the git repo initially, and
"make git-update" will update an existing repo. The clone will be located
in the $(MODULE_NAME)-git subdirectory in the module directory, and the
"make source" command will copy it instead of unpacking a tarball.
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Known deficiencies (aka TODO):
Things we should fix someday, but haven't had time to do yet, include:
- Builds are slow. Painfully slow. Things we might be able to do to
speed them up include:
- Using a cache of configure script results shared among all the
components in the tree
- Setting up proper parallel make rules so that multi-core/cpu
machines can build more than one bit at a time.
- Profiling the builds to see where bottlenecks are
- There aren't dependency relationships listed in most of the module
makefiles - you can't bringover the tree and just cd open-src/xserver/xorg
and make, because it won't find many of the dependencies - pretty much you
have to run ./buildit at the toplevel first to build the entire tree and then
go to work on the module you care about. It would be cool if it would do
this for you (like I believe the ON tree does), though tracking down all the
dependencies will probably take a while - getting them done for xserver/xorg
first would be most useful.
=============================================================================
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