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Switch to autotools (GNU build system) This commit probably comes as a surprise to some, given that one of i3’s explicitly stated goals used to be “Do not use programs such as autoconf/automake for configuration and creating unreadable/broken makefiles”. I phrased this goal over 7 years ago, based largely on a grudge that I inherited, which — as I’ve realized in the meantime — was largely held against FOSS in general, and not actually nuanced criticism of autotools. In the meantime, I have come to realize that the knee-jerk reaction of “I could do this better!” (i.e. writing our own build system in this particular case) is usually misguided, and nowadays I strongly suggest trying hard to fix the existing system for the benefit of all existing and future users. Further, I recently got to experience the other side of the coin, as I packaged a new version of FreeRADIUS for Debian, which at the time of writing used autoconf in combination with boilermake, a custom make-based build system that only FreeRADIUS uses. Understanding the build system enough to fix issues and enable parallel compilation took me an entire day. That time is time which potentially every downstream maintainer needs to invest, and the resulting knowledge cannot be applied to any other project. Hence, I believe it’s a good idea switch i3 to autotools. Yes, it might be that particular features were easier to implement/understand in our custom Makefiles, and there might be individuals who have an easier time reading through our custom Makefiles than learning autotools. All of these considerations are outweighed by the benefits we get from using the same build system as literally thousands of other FOSS software packages. Aside from these somewhat philosophical considerations, there’s also practical improvements which this change brings us. See the “changes” section below. ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ new workflow │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ You can now build i3 like you build any other software package which uses autotools. Here’s a memory refresher: autoreconf -fi mkdir -p build && cd build ../configure make -j8 (The autoreconf -fi step is unnecessary if you are building from a release tarball, but shouldn’t hurt either.) ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ recommended reading │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ I very much recommend reading “A Practitioner's Guide to GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool” by John Calcote (https://www.nostarch.com/autotools.htm). That book is from 2010 and, AFAICT, is the most up to date comprehensive description of autotools. Do not read older documentation. In particular, if a document you’re reading mentions configure.in (deprecated filename) or recursive make (now considered harmful), it’s likely outdated. ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ changes │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ This commit implements the following new functionality/changes in behavior: • We use the AX_ENABLE_BUILDDIR macro to enforce builds happening in a separate directory. This is a prerequisite for the AX_EXTEND_SRCDIR macro and building in a separate directory is common practice anyway. In case this causes any trouble when packaging i3 for your distribution, please let me know. • “make check” runs the i3 testsuite. You can still use ./testcases/complete-run.pl to get the interactive progress output. • “make distcheck” (runs testsuite on “make dist” result, tiny bit quicker feedback cycle than waiting for the travis build to catch the issue). • “make uninstall” (occasionally requested by users who compile from source) • “make” will build manpages/docs by default if the tools are installed. Conversely, manpages/docs are not tried to be built for users who don’t want to install all these dependencies to get started hacking on i3. • non-release builds will enable address sanitizer by default. Use the --disable-sanitizers configure option to turn off all sanitizers, and see --help for available sanitizers. • Support for pre-compiled headers (PCH) has been dropped for now in the interest of simplicitly. Maybe we can re-add it later. • coverage reports are now generated using “make check-code-coverage”, which requires specifying --enable-code-coverage when calling configure. ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ build system feature parity/testing │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ In addition to what’s described above, I tested the following features: • “make install” installs the same files (plus documentation and manpages) cd i3-old && make install PREFIX=/tmp/inst/old cd i3-new && ./configure --prefix=/tmp/inst/new cd /tmp/inst (cd old && for f in $(find); do [ -e "../new/$f" ] || echo "$f missing"; done) • make dist generates a tarball which includes the same files cd i3-old && make dist cd i3-new/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu && make dist colordiff -u <(tar tf i3-old/i3-4.12.tar.bz2 | sort) \ <(tar tf i3-new/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/i3-4.12.tar.gz | sort) There are some expected differences: • Some files have been renamed (e.g. the new etc/ and share/ subdirectories) • Some files will now be generated at build-time, so only their corresponding .in file is shipped (e.g. testcases/complete-run.pl) • The generated parser files are shipped in the dist tarball (they only depend on the parser-specs/* files, not on the target system) • autotools infrastructure is shipped (e.g. “configure”, “missing”, etc.) • DLOG and ELOG statements still produce the same file name in logfiles • Listing source code in gdb still works. • gdb backtraces contain the i3-<version> path component • release.sh still works • version embedding 1. git checkout shows “4.12-136-gf720023 (2016-10-10, branch "autotools")” 2. tarball of a git version shows “4.12-non-git” 3. release tarball shows 4.13 • debug mode is enabled by default for non-release builds • enabling verbose builds via V=1 ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ speed │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ There is no noticeable difference in compilation speed itself (of binaries, documentation and manpages): i3-old $ time make all docs mans -j8 make all docs mans -j8 28.92s user 2.15s system 640% cpu 4.852 total i3-new $ time make -j8 make -j8 27.08s user 1.92s system 620% cpu 4.669 total In terms of one-time costs: configuring the build system (../configure) takes about 2.7s on my machine, generating the build system (autoreconf -fi) takes about 3.1s on my machine. ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ m4 macros │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ All files in m4/ have been copied from the autoconf-archive package in version b6aeb1988f4b6c78bf39d97b6c4f6e1d594d59b9 and should be updated whenever they change. This commit has been tested with autoconf 2.69 and automake 1.15.
2016-10-07 13:48:26 +02:00
@CODE_COVERAGE_RULES@
Update travis for autotools
2016-10-16 18:03:09 +02:00
echo-version:
@echo "@I3_VERSION@"
Switch to autotools (GNU build system) This commit probably comes as a surprise to some, given that one of i3’s explicitly stated goals used to be “Do not use programs such as autoconf/automake for configuration and creating unreadable/broken makefiles”. I phrased this goal over 7 years ago, based largely on a grudge that I inherited, which — as I’ve realized in the meantime — was largely held against FOSS in general, and not actually nuanced criticism of autotools. In the meantime, I have come to realize that the knee-jerk reaction of “I could do this better!” (i.e. writing our own build system in this particular case) is usually misguided, and nowadays I strongly suggest trying hard to fix the existing system for the benefit of all existing and future users. Further, I recently got to experience the other side of the coin, as I packaged a new version of FreeRADIUS for Debian, which at the time of writing used autoconf in combination with boilermake, a custom make-based build system that only FreeRADIUS uses. Understanding the build system enough to fix issues and enable parallel compilation took me an entire day. That time is time which potentially every downstream maintainer needs to invest, and the resulting knowledge cannot be applied to any other project. Hence, I believe it’s a good idea switch i3 to autotools. Yes, it might be that particular features were easier to implement/understand in our custom Makefiles, and there might be individuals who have an easier time reading through our custom Makefiles than learning autotools. All of these considerations are outweighed by the benefits we get from using the same build system as literally thousands of other FOSS software packages. Aside from these somewhat philosophical considerations, there’s also practical improvements which this change brings us. See the “changes” section below. ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ new workflow │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ You can now build i3 like you build any other software package which uses autotools. Here’s a memory refresher: autoreconf -fi mkdir -p build && cd build ../configure make -j8 (The autoreconf -fi step is unnecessary if you are building from a release tarball, but shouldn’t hurt either.) ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ recommended reading │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ I very much recommend reading “A Practitioner's Guide to GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool” by John Calcote (https://www.nostarch.com/autotools.htm). That book is from 2010 and, AFAICT, is the most up to date comprehensive description of autotools. Do not read older documentation. In particular, if a document you’re reading mentions configure.in (deprecated filename) or recursive make (now considered harmful), it’s likely outdated. ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ changes │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ This commit implements the following new functionality/changes in behavior: • We use the AX_ENABLE_BUILDDIR macro to enforce builds happening in a separate directory. This is a prerequisite for the AX_EXTEND_SRCDIR macro and building in a separate directory is common practice anyway. In case this causes any trouble when packaging i3 for your distribution, please let me know. • “make check” runs the i3 testsuite. You can still use ./testcases/complete-run.pl to get the interactive progress output. • “make distcheck” (runs testsuite on “make dist” result, tiny bit quicker feedback cycle than waiting for the travis build to catch the issue). • “make uninstall” (occasionally requested by users who compile from source) • “make” will build manpages/docs by default if the tools are installed. Conversely, manpages/docs are not tried to be built for users who don’t want to install all these dependencies to get started hacking on i3. • non-release builds will enable address sanitizer by default. Use the --disable-sanitizers configure option to turn off all sanitizers, and see --help for available sanitizers. • Support for pre-compiled headers (PCH) has been dropped for now in the interest of simplicitly. Maybe we can re-add it later. • coverage reports are now generated using “make check-code-coverage”, which requires specifying --enable-code-coverage when calling configure. ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ build system feature parity/testing │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ In addition to what’s described above, I tested the following features: • “make install” installs the same files (plus documentation and manpages) cd i3-old && make install PREFIX=/tmp/inst/old cd i3-new && ./configure --prefix=/tmp/inst/new cd /tmp/inst (cd old && for f in $(find); do [ -e "../new/$f" ] || echo "$f missing"; done) • make dist generates a tarball which includes the same files cd i3-old && make dist cd i3-new/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu && make dist colordiff -u <(tar tf i3-old/i3-4.12.tar.bz2 | sort) \ <(tar tf i3-new/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/i3-4.12.tar.gz | sort) There are some expected differences: • Some files have been renamed (e.g. the new etc/ and share/ subdirectories) • Some files will now be generated at build-time, so only their corresponding .in file is shipped (e.g. testcases/complete-run.pl) • The generated parser files are shipped in the dist tarball (they only depend on the parser-specs/* files, not on the target system) • autotools infrastructure is shipped (e.g. “configure”, “missing”, etc.) • DLOG and ELOG statements still produce the same file name in logfiles • Listing source code in gdb still works. • gdb backtraces contain the i3-<version> path component • release.sh still works • version embedding 1. git checkout shows “4.12-136-gf720023 (2016-10-10, branch "autotools")” 2. tarball of a git version shows “4.12-non-git” 3. release tarball shows 4.13 • debug mode is enabled by default for non-release builds • enabling verbose builds via V=1 ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ speed │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ There is no noticeable difference in compilation speed itself (of binaries, documentation and manpages): i3-old $ time make all docs mans -j8 make all docs mans -j8 28.92s user 2.15s system 640% cpu 4.852 total i3-new $ time make -j8 make -j8 27.08s user 1.92s system 620% cpu 4.669 total In terms of one-time costs: configuring the build system (../configure) takes about 2.7s on my machine, generating the build system (autoreconf -fi) takes about 3.1s on my machine. ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ m4 macros │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ All files in m4/ have been copied from the autoconf-archive package in version b6aeb1988f4b6c78bf39d97b6c4f6e1d594d59b9 and should be updated whenever they change. This commit has been tested with autoconf 2.69 and automake 1.15.
2016-10-07 13:48:26 +02:00
bin_PROGRAMS = \
i3 \
i3bar/i3bar \
i3-config-wizard/i3-config-wizard \
i3-dump-log/i3-dump-log \
i3-input/i3-input \
i3-msg/i3-msg \
i3-nagbar/i3-nagbar
install-exec-hook:
$(LN_S) -f i3 $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/i3-with-shmlog
uninstall-hook:
rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/i3-with-shmlog
i3includedir=$(includedir)/i3
i3include_HEADERS = \
include/i3/ipc.h
dist_bin_SCRIPTS = \
i3-dmenu-desktop \
i3-migrate-config-to-v4 \
i3-save-tree \
i3-sensible-editor \
i3-sensible-pager \
i3-sensible-terminal
i3confdir = $(sysconfdir)/i3
dist_i3conf_DATA = \
etc/config \
etc/config.keycodes
applicationsdir = $(datarootdir)/applications
xsessionsdir = $(datarootdir)/xsessions
dist_applications_DATA = \
share/applications/i3.desktop
dist_xsessions_DATA = \
share/xsessions/i3.desktop \
share/xsessions/i3-with-shmlog.desktop
noinst_LIBRARIES = libi3.a
tests: add inject_randr15 (#2573) This tool is similar to xtrace in usage in that it intercepts traffic to the X server. The motivating feature for writing the tool is its ability to inject prepared reply messages instead of the server’s reply. In this particular case, we’ll inject a RRGetMonitors reply to test i3’s RandR 1.5 code paths. The added testcase is a noop for now, but with the code that’s lingering in the randr15 branch, i3 does actually detect monitors as per the injected reply: 2016-11-20 21:10:05 - randr.c:__randr_query_outputs:618 - RandR 1.5 available, querying monitors 2016-11-20 21:10:05 - randr.c:__randr_query_outputs:628 - 1 RandR monitors found (timestamp 0) 2016-11-20 21:10:05 - randr.c:__randr_query_outputs:646 - name DP3, x 0, y 0, width 3840 px, height 2160 px, width 520 mm, height 290 mm, primary 1, automatic 1 This is preparation work for issue #1799
2016-11-21 08:20:14 +01:00
check_PROGRAMS = \
test.commands_parser \
test.config_parser \
test.inject_randr15
Switch to autotools (GNU build system) This commit probably comes as a surprise to some, given that one of i3’s explicitly stated goals used to be “Do not use programs such as autoconf/automake for configuration and creating unreadable/broken makefiles”. I phrased this goal over 7 years ago, based largely on a grudge that I inherited, which — as I’ve realized in the meantime — was largely held against FOSS in general, and not actually nuanced criticism of autotools. In the meantime, I have come to realize that the knee-jerk reaction of “I could do this better!” (i.e. writing our own build system in this particular case) is usually misguided, and nowadays I strongly suggest trying hard to fix the existing system for the benefit of all existing and future users. Further, I recently got to experience the other side of the coin, as I packaged a new version of FreeRADIUS for Debian, which at the time of writing used autoconf in combination with boilermake, a custom make-based build system that only FreeRADIUS uses. Understanding the build system enough to fix issues and enable parallel compilation took me an entire day. That time is time which potentially every downstream maintainer needs to invest, and the resulting knowledge cannot be applied to any other project. Hence, I believe it’s a good idea switch i3 to autotools. Yes, it might be that particular features were easier to implement/understand in our custom Makefiles, and there might be individuals who have an easier time reading through our custom Makefiles than learning autotools. All of these considerations are outweighed by the benefits we get from using the same build system as literally thousands of other FOSS software packages. Aside from these somewhat philosophical considerations, there’s also practical improvements which this change brings us. See the “changes” section below. ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ new workflow │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ You can now build i3 like you build any other software package which uses autotools. Here’s a memory refresher: autoreconf -fi mkdir -p build && cd build ../configure make -j8 (The autoreconf -fi step is unnecessary if you are building from a release tarball, but shouldn’t hurt either.) ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ recommended reading │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ I very much recommend reading “A Practitioner's Guide to GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool” by John Calcote (https://www.nostarch.com/autotools.htm). That book is from 2010 and, AFAICT, is the most up to date comprehensive description of autotools. Do not read older documentation. In particular, if a document you’re reading mentions configure.in (deprecated filename) or recursive make (now considered harmful), it’s likely outdated. ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ changes │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ This commit implements the following new functionality/changes in behavior: • We use the AX_ENABLE_BUILDDIR macro to enforce builds happening in a separate directory. This is a prerequisite for the AX_EXTEND_SRCDIR macro and building in a separate directory is common practice anyway. In case this causes any trouble when packaging i3 for your distribution, please let me know. • “make check” runs the i3 testsuite. You can still use ./testcases/complete-run.pl to get the interactive progress output. • “make distcheck” (runs testsuite on “make dist” result, tiny bit quicker feedback cycle than waiting for the travis build to catch the issue). • “make uninstall” (occasionally requested by users who compile from source) • “make” will build manpages/docs by default if the tools are installed. Conversely, manpages/docs are not tried to be built for users who don’t want to install all these dependencies to get started hacking on i3. • non-release builds will enable address sanitizer by default. Use the --disable-sanitizers configure option to turn off all sanitizers, and see --help for available sanitizers. • Support for pre-compiled headers (PCH) has been dropped for now in the interest of simplicitly. Maybe we can re-add it later. • coverage reports are now generated using “make check-code-coverage”, which requires specifying --enable-code-coverage when calling configure. ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ build system feature parity/testing │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ In addition to what’s described above, I tested the following features: • “make install” installs the same files (plus documentation and manpages) cd i3-old && make install PREFIX=/tmp/inst/old cd i3-new && ./configure --prefix=/tmp/inst/new cd /tmp/inst (cd old && for f in $(find); do [ -e "../new/$f" ] || echo "$f missing"; done) • make dist generates a tarball which includes the same files cd i3-old && make dist cd i3-new/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu && make dist colordiff -u <(tar tf i3-old/i3-4.12.tar.bz2 | sort) \ <(tar tf i3-new/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/i3-4.12.tar.gz | sort) There are some expected differences: • Some files have been renamed (e.g. the new etc/ and share/ subdirectories) • Some files will now be generated at build-time, so only their corresponding .in file is shipped (e.g. testcases/complete-run.pl) • The generated parser files are shipped in the dist tarball (they only depend on the parser-specs/* files, not on the target system) • autotools infrastructure is shipped (e.g. “configure”, “missing”, etc.) • DLOG and ELOG statements still produce the same file name in logfiles • Listing source code in gdb still works. • gdb backtraces contain the i3-<version> path component • release.sh still works • version embedding 1. git checkout shows “4.12-136-gf720023 (2016-10-10, branch "autotools")” 2. tarball of a git version shows “4.12-non-git” 3. release tarball shows 4.13 • debug mode is enabled by default for non-release builds • enabling verbose builds via V=1 ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ speed │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ There is no noticeable difference in compilation speed itself (of binaries, documentation and manpages): i3-old $ time make all docs mans -j8 make all docs mans -j8 28.92s user 2.15s system 640% cpu 4.852 total i3-new $ time make -j8 make -j8 27.08s user 1.92s system 620% cpu 4.669 total In terms of one-time costs: configuring the build system (../configure) takes about 2.7s on my machine, generating the build system (autoreconf -fi) takes about 3.1s on my machine. ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ m4 macros │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ All files in m4/ have been copied from the autoconf-archive package in version b6aeb1988f4b6c78bf39d97b6c4f6e1d594d59b9 and should be updated whenever they change. This commit has been tested with autoconf 2.69 and automake 1.15.
2016-10-07 13:48:26 +02:00
check_SCRIPTS = \
testcases/complete-run.pl
testcases: remove external AnyEvent::I3 dependency
2017-08-19 16:51:51 +02:00
check_DATA = \
anyevent-i3.stamp
Switch to autotools (GNU build system) This commit probably comes as a surprise to some, given that one of i3’s explicitly stated goals used to be “Do not use programs such as autoconf/automake for configuration and creating unreadable/broken makefiles”. I phrased this goal over 7 years ago, based largely on a grudge that I inherited, which — as I’ve realized in the meantime — was largely held against FOSS in general, and not actually nuanced criticism of autotools. In the meantime, I have come to realize that the knee-jerk reaction of “I could do this better!” (i.e. writing our own build system in this particular case) is usually misguided, and nowadays I strongly suggest trying hard to fix the existing system for the benefit of all existing and future users. Further, I recently got to experience the other side of the coin, as I packaged a new version of FreeRADIUS for Debian, which at the time of writing used autoconf in combination with boilermake, a custom make-based build system that only FreeRADIUS uses. Understanding the build system enough to fix issues and enable parallel compilation took me an entire day. That time is time which potentially every downstream maintainer needs to invest, and the resulting knowledge cannot be applied to any other project. Hence, I believe it’s a good idea switch i3 to autotools. Yes, it might be that particular features were easier to implement/understand in our custom Makefiles, and there might be individuals who have an easier time reading through our custom Makefiles than learning autotools. All of these considerations are outweighed by the benefits we get from using the same build system as literally thousands of other FOSS software packages. Aside from these somewhat philosophical considerations, there’s also practical improvements which this change brings us. See the “changes” section below. ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ new workflow │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ You can now build i3 like you build any other software package which uses autotools. Here’s a memory refresher: autoreconf -fi mkdir -p build && cd build ../configure make -j8 (The autoreconf -fi step is unnecessary if you are building from a release tarball, but shouldn’t hurt either.) ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ recommended reading │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ I very much recommend reading “A Practitioner's Guide to GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool” by John Calcote (https://www.nostarch.com/autotools.htm). That book is from 2010 and, AFAICT, is the most up to date comprehensive description of autotools. Do not read older documentation. In particular, if a document you’re reading mentions configure.in (deprecated filename) or recursive make (now considered harmful), it’s likely outdated. ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ changes │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ This commit implements the following new functionality/changes in behavior: • We use the AX_ENABLE_BUILDDIR macro to enforce builds happening in a separate directory. This is a prerequisite for the AX_EXTEND_SRCDIR macro and building in a separate directory is common practice anyway. In case this causes any trouble when packaging i3 for your distribution, please let me know. • “make check” runs the i3 testsuite. You can still use ./testcases/complete-run.pl to get the interactive progress output. • “make distcheck” (runs testsuite on “make dist” result, tiny bit quicker feedback cycle than waiting for the travis build to catch the issue). • “make uninstall” (occasionally requested by users who compile from source) • “make” will build manpages/docs by default if the tools are installed. Conversely, manpages/docs are not tried to be built for users who don’t want to install all these dependencies to get started hacking on i3. • non-release builds will enable address sanitizer by default. Use the --disable-sanitizers configure option to turn off all sanitizers, and see --help for available sanitizers. • Support for pre-compiled headers (PCH) has been dropped for now in the interest of simplicitly. Maybe we can re-add it later. • coverage reports are now generated using “make check-code-coverage”, which requires specifying --enable-code-coverage when calling configure. ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ build system feature parity/testing │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ In addition to what’s described above, I tested the following features: • “make install” installs the same files (plus documentation and manpages) cd i3-old && make install PREFIX=/tmp/inst/old cd i3-new && ./configure --prefix=/tmp/inst/new cd /tmp/inst (cd old && for f in $(find); do [ -e "../new/$f" ] || echo "$f missing"; done) • make dist generates a tarball which includes the same files cd i3-old && make dist cd i3-new/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu && make dist colordiff -u <(tar tf i3-old/i3-4.12.tar.bz2 | sort) \ <(tar tf i3-new/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/i3-4.12.tar.gz | sort) There are some expected differences: • Some files have been renamed (e.g. the new etc/ and share/ subdirectories) • Some files will now be generated at build-time, so only their corresponding .in file is shipped (e.g. testcases/complete-run.pl) • The generated parser files are shipped in the dist tarball (they only depend on the parser-specs/* files, not on the target system) • autotools infrastructure is shipped (e.g. “configure”, “missing”, etc.) • DLOG and ELOG statements still produce the same file name in logfiles • Listing source code in gdb still works. • gdb backtraces contain the i3-<version> path component • release.sh still works • version embedding 1. git checkout shows “4.12-136-gf720023 (2016-10-10, branch "autotools")” 2. tarball of a git version shows “4.12-non-git” 3. release tarball shows 4.13 • debug mode is enabled by default for non-release builds • enabling verbose builds via V=1 ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ speed │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ There is no noticeable difference in compilation speed itself (of binaries, documentation and manpages): i3-old $ time make all docs mans -j8 make all docs mans -j8 28.92s user 2.15s system 640% cpu 4.852 total i3-new $ time make -j8 make -j8 27.08s user 1.92s system 620% cpu 4.669 total In terms of one-time costs: configuring the build system (../configure) takes about 2.7s on my machine, generating the build system (autoreconf -fi) takes about 3.1s on my machine. ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ m4 macros │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ All files in m4/ have been copied from the autoconf-archive package in version b6aeb1988f4b6c78bf39d97b6c4f6e1d594d59b9 and should be updated whenever they change. This commit has been tested with autoconf 2.69 and automake 1.15.
2016-10-07 13:48:26 +02:00
clean-check:
rm -rf testsuite-* latest i3-cfg-for-* _Inline
clean-local: clean-check
TESTS = testcases/complete-run.pl
EXTRA_DIST = \
$(dist_docs_toc_DATA:.html=) \
$(dist_docs_notoc_DATA:.html=) \
docs/asciidoc-git.conf \
docs/bigpicture.png \
docs/i3-pod2html \
docs/i3-sync.dia \
docs/i3-sync.png \
docs/i3-sync-working.dia \
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$(asciidoc_MANS:.1=.man) \
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generate asciidoc.conf via autoconf …instead of updating it in release.sh.
2016-10-16 17:23:51 +02:00
man/asciidoc.conf.in \
Switch to autotools (GNU build system) This commit probably comes as a surprise to some, given that one of i3’s explicitly stated goals used to be “Do not use programs such as autoconf/automake for configuration and creating unreadable/broken makefiles”. I phrased this goal over 7 years ago, based largely on a grudge that I inherited, which — as I’ve realized in the meantime — was largely held against FOSS in general, and not actually nuanced criticism of autotools. In the meantime, I have come to realize that the knee-jerk reaction of “I could do this better!” (i.e. writing our own build system in this particular case) is usually misguided, and nowadays I strongly suggest trying hard to fix the existing system for the benefit of all existing and future users. Further, I recently got to experience the other side of the coin, as I packaged a new version of FreeRADIUS for Debian, which at the time of writing used autoconf in combination with boilermake, a custom make-based build system that only FreeRADIUS uses. Understanding the build system enough to fix issues and enable parallel compilation took me an entire day. That time is time which potentially every downstream maintainer needs to invest, and the resulting knowledge cannot be applied to any other project. Hence, I believe it’s a good idea switch i3 to autotools. Yes, it might be that particular features were easier to implement/understand in our custom Makefiles, and there might be individuals who have an easier time reading through our custom Makefiles than learning autotools. All of these considerations are outweighed by the benefits we get from using the same build system as literally thousands of other FOSS software packages. Aside from these somewhat philosophical considerations, there’s also practical improvements which this change brings us. See the “changes” section below. ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ new workflow │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ You can now build i3 like you build any other software package which uses autotools. Here’s a memory refresher: autoreconf -fi mkdir -p build && cd build ../configure make -j8 (The autoreconf -fi step is unnecessary if you are building from a release tarball, but shouldn’t hurt either.) ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ recommended reading │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ I very much recommend reading “A Practitioner's Guide to GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool” by John Calcote (https://www.nostarch.com/autotools.htm). That book is from 2010 and, AFAICT, is the most up to date comprehensive description of autotools. Do not read older documentation. In particular, if a document you’re reading mentions configure.in (deprecated filename) or recursive make (now considered harmful), it’s likely outdated. ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ changes │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ This commit implements the following new functionality/changes in behavior: • We use the AX_ENABLE_BUILDDIR macro to enforce builds happening in a separate directory. This is a prerequisite for the AX_EXTEND_SRCDIR macro and building in a separate directory is common practice anyway. In case this causes any trouble when packaging i3 for your distribution, please let me know. • “make check” runs the i3 testsuite. You can still use ./testcases/complete-run.pl to get the interactive progress output. • “make distcheck” (runs testsuite on “make dist” result, tiny bit quicker feedback cycle than waiting for the travis build to catch the issue). • “make uninstall” (occasionally requested by users who compile from source) • “make” will build manpages/docs by default if the tools are installed. Conversely, manpages/docs are not tried to be built for users who don’t want to install all these dependencies to get started hacking on i3. • non-release builds will enable address sanitizer by default. Use the --disable-sanitizers configure option to turn off all sanitizers, and see --help for available sanitizers. • Support for pre-compiled headers (PCH) has been dropped for now in the interest of simplicitly. Maybe we can re-add it later. • coverage reports are now generated using “make check-code-coverage”, which requires specifying --enable-code-coverage when calling configure. ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ build system feature parity/testing │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ In addition to what’s described above, I tested the following features: • “make install” installs the same files (plus documentation and manpages) cd i3-old && make install PREFIX=/tmp/inst/old cd i3-new && ./configure --prefix=/tmp/inst/new cd /tmp/inst (cd old && for f in $(find); do [ -e "../new/$f" ] || echo "$f missing"; done) • make dist generates a tarball which includes the same files cd i3-old && make dist cd i3-new/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu && make dist colordiff -u <(tar tf i3-old/i3-4.12.tar.bz2 | sort) \ <(tar tf i3-new/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/i3-4.12.tar.gz | sort) There are some expected differences: • Some files have been renamed (e.g. the new etc/ and share/ subdirectories) • Some files will now be generated at build-time, so only their corresponding .in file is shipped (e.g. testcases/complete-run.pl) • The generated parser files are shipped in the dist tarball (they only depend on the parser-specs/* files, not on the target system) • autotools infrastructure is shipped (e.g. “configure”, “missing”, etc.) • DLOG and ELOG statements still produce the same file name in logfiles • Listing source code in gdb still works. • gdb backtraces contain the i3-<version> path component • release.sh still works • version embedding 1. git checkout shows “4.12-136-gf720023 (2016-10-10, branch "autotools")” 2. tarball of a git version shows “4.12-non-git” 3. release tarball shows 4.13 • debug mode is enabled by default for non-release builds • enabling verbose builds via V=1 ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ speed │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ There is no noticeable difference in compilation speed itself (of binaries, documentation and manpages): i3-old $ time make all docs mans -j8 make all docs mans -j8 28.92s user 2.15s system 640% cpu 4.852 total i3-new $ time make -j8 make -j8 27.08s user 1.92s system 620% cpu 4.669 total In terms of one-time costs: configuring the build system (../configure) takes about 2.7s on my machine, generating the build system (autoreconf -fi) takes about 3.1s on my machine. ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ m4 macros │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ All files in m4/ have been copied from the autoconf-archive package in version b6aeb1988f4b6c78bf39d97b6c4f6e1d594d59b9 and should be updated whenever they change. This commit has been tested with autoconf 2.69 and automake 1.15.
2016-10-07 13:48:26 +02:00
DEPENDS \
I3_VERSION \
LICENSE \
PACKAGE-MAINTAINER \
release i3 4.14
2017-09-04 07:53:25 +02:00
RELEASE-NOTES-4.14 \
Switch to autotools (GNU build system) This commit probably comes as a surprise to some, given that one of i3’s explicitly stated goals used to be “Do not use programs such as autoconf/automake for configuration and creating unreadable/broken makefiles”. I phrased this goal over 7 years ago, based largely on a grudge that I inherited, which — as I’ve realized in the meantime — was largely held against FOSS in general, and not actually nuanced criticism of autotools. In the meantime, I have come to realize that the knee-jerk reaction of “I could do this better!” (i.e. writing our own build system in this particular case) is usually misguided, and nowadays I strongly suggest trying hard to fix the existing system for the benefit of all existing and future users. Further, I recently got to experience the other side of the coin, as I packaged a new version of FreeRADIUS for Debian, which at the time of writing used autoconf in combination with boilermake, a custom make-based build system that only FreeRADIUS uses. Understanding the build system enough to fix issues and enable parallel compilation took me an entire day. That time is time which potentially every downstream maintainer needs to invest, and the resulting knowledge cannot be applied to any other project. Hence, I believe it’s a good idea switch i3 to autotools. Yes, it might be that particular features were easier to implement/understand in our custom Makefiles, and there might be individuals who have an easier time reading through our custom Makefiles than learning autotools. All of these considerations are outweighed by the benefits we get from using the same build system as literally thousands of other FOSS software packages. Aside from these somewhat philosophical considerations, there’s also practical improvements which this change brings us. See the “changes” section below. ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ new workflow │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ You can now build i3 like you build any other software package which uses autotools. Here’s a memory refresher: autoreconf -fi mkdir -p build && cd build ../configure make -j8 (The autoreconf -fi step is unnecessary if you are building from a release tarball, but shouldn’t hurt either.) ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ recommended reading │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ I very much recommend reading “A Practitioner's Guide to GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool” by John Calcote (https://www.nostarch.com/autotools.htm). That book is from 2010 and, AFAICT, is the most up to date comprehensive description of autotools. Do not read older documentation. In particular, if a document you’re reading mentions configure.in (deprecated filename) or recursive make (now considered harmful), it’s likely outdated. ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ changes │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ This commit implements the following new functionality/changes in behavior: • We use the AX_ENABLE_BUILDDIR macro to enforce builds happening in a separate directory. This is a prerequisite for the AX_EXTEND_SRCDIR macro and building in a separate directory is common practice anyway. In case this causes any trouble when packaging i3 for your distribution, please let me know. • “make check” runs the i3 testsuite. You can still use ./testcases/complete-run.pl to get the interactive progress output. • “make distcheck” (runs testsuite on “make dist” result, tiny bit quicker feedback cycle than waiting for the travis build to catch the issue). • “make uninstall” (occasionally requested by users who compile from source) • “make” will build manpages/docs by default if the tools are installed. Conversely, manpages/docs are not tried to be built for users who don’t want to install all these dependencies to get started hacking on i3. • non-release builds will enable address sanitizer by default. Use the --disable-sanitizers configure option to turn off all sanitizers, and see --help for available sanitizers. • Support for pre-compiled headers (PCH) has been dropped for now in the interest of simplicitly. Maybe we can re-add it later. • coverage reports are now generated using “make check-code-coverage”, which requires specifying --enable-code-coverage when calling configure. ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ build system feature parity/testing │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ In addition to what’s described above, I tested the following features: • “make install” installs the same files (plus documentation and manpages) cd i3-old && make install PREFIX=/tmp/inst/old cd i3-new && ./configure --prefix=/tmp/inst/new cd /tmp/inst (cd old && for f in $(find); do [ -e "../new/$f" ] || echo "$f missing"; done) • make dist generates a tarball which includes the same files cd i3-old && make dist cd i3-new/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu && make dist colordiff -u <(tar tf i3-old/i3-4.12.tar.bz2 | sort) \ <(tar tf i3-new/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/i3-4.12.tar.gz | sort) There are some expected differences: • Some files have been renamed (e.g. the new etc/ and share/ subdirectories) • Some files will now be generated at build-time, so only their corresponding .in file is shipped (e.g. testcases/complete-run.pl) • The generated parser files are shipped in the dist tarball (they only depend on the parser-specs/* files, not on the target system) • autotools infrastructure is shipped (e.g. “configure”, “missing”, etc.) • DLOG and ELOG statements still produce the same file name in logfiles • Listing source code in gdb still works. • gdb backtraces contain the i3-<version> path component • release.sh still works • version embedding 1. git checkout shows “4.12-136-gf720023 (2016-10-10, branch "autotools")” 2. tarball of a git version shows “4.12-non-git” 3. release tarball shows 4.13 • debug mode is enabled by default for non-release builds • enabling verbose builds via V=1 ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ speed │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ There is no noticeable difference in compilation speed itself (of binaries, documentation and manpages): i3-old $ time make all docs mans -j8 make all docs mans -j8 28.92s user 2.15s system 640% cpu 4.852 total i3-new $ time make -j8 make -j8 27.08s user 1.92s system 620% cpu 4.669 total In terms of one-time costs: configuring the build system (../configure) takes about 2.7s on my machine, generating the build system (autoreconf -fi) takes about 3.1s on my machine. ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ m4 macros │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ All files in m4/ have been copied from the autoconf-archive package in version b6aeb1988f4b6c78bf39d97b6c4f6e1d594d59b9 and should be updated whenever they change. This commit has been tested with autoconf 2.69 and automake 1.15.
2016-10-07 13:48:26 +02:00
generate-command-parser.pl \
parser-specs/commands.spec \
parser-specs/config.spec \
parser-specs/highlighting.vim \
pseudo-doc.doxygen \
testcases/complete-run.pl.in \
testcases/i3-test.config \
testcases/lib/i3test/Test.pm \
testcases/lib/i3test/Util.pm \
testcases/lib/i3test/XTEST.pm \
testcases/lib/i3test.pm.in \
testcases/lib/SocketActivation.pm \
testcases/lib/StartXServer.pm \
testcases/lib/StatusLine.pm \
testcases/lib/TestWorker.pm \
testcases/Makefile.PL \
testcases/new-test \
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testcases/t \
testcases/valgrind.supp
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man/$(dirstamp) \
parser/$(dirstamp)
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docs/userguide.html \
docs/ipc.html \
docs/multi-monitor.html \
docs/wsbar.html \
docs/testsuite.html \
docs/i3bar-protocol.html \
docs/layout-saving.html
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docs/debugging.html
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docs/lib-i3test.html \
docs/lib-i3test-test.html
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$(AM_V_GEN) @PATH_ASCIIDOC@ -a toc -n -o $@ $<
$(dist_docs_notoc_DATA): docs/%.html: docs/% docs/$(dirstamp)
$(AM_V_GEN) @PATH_ASCIIDOC@ -n -o $@ $<
docs/lib-i3test.html: testcases/lib/i3test.pm docs/$(dirstamp)
$(AM_V_GEN) $(top_srcdir)/docs/i3-pod2html $< $@
docs/lib-i3test-test.html: testcases/lib/i3test/Test.pm docs/$(dirstamp)
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$(pod_MANS)
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man/i3bar.1 \
man/i3-msg.1 \
man/i3-input.1 \
man/i3-nagbar.1 \
man/i3-config-wizard.1 \
man/i3-migrate-config-to-v4.1 \
man/i3-sensible-editor.1 \
man/i3-sensible-pager.1 \
man/i3-sensible-terminal.1 \
man/i3-dump-log.1
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man/i3-dmenu-desktop.1 \
man/i3-save-tree.1
$(asciidoc_MANS): man/%.1: man/%.xml man/$(dirstamp)
$(AM_V_GEN) out='$@'; @PATH_XMLTO@ man -o "$${out%/*}" $<
@stamp='$@'; $(MKDIR_P) "$${stamp%/*}"
man/%.xml: man/%.man man/asciidoc.conf man/$(dirstamp)
generate asciidoc.conf via autoconf …instead of updating it in release.sh.
2016-10-16 17:23:51 +02:00
$(AM_V_GEN) @PATH_ASCIIDOC@ -d manpage -b docbook -f $(top_builddir)/man/asciidoc.conf -o $@ $<
Switch to autotools (GNU build system) This commit probably comes as a surprise to some, given that one of i3’s explicitly stated goals used to be “Do not use programs such as autoconf/automake for configuration and creating unreadable/broken makefiles”. I phrased this goal over 7 years ago, based largely on a grudge that I inherited, which — as I’ve realized in the meantime — was largely held against FOSS in general, and not actually nuanced criticism of autotools. In the meantime, I have come to realize that the knee-jerk reaction of “I could do this better!” (i.e. writing our own build system in this particular case) is usually misguided, and nowadays I strongly suggest trying hard to fix the existing system for the benefit of all existing and future users. Further, I recently got to experience the other side of the coin, as I packaged a new version of FreeRADIUS for Debian, which at the time of writing used autoconf in combination with boilermake, a custom make-based build system that only FreeRADIUS uses. Understanding the build system enough to fix issues and enable parallel compilation took me an entire day. That time is time which potentially every downstream maintainer needs to invest, and the resulting knowledge cannot be applied to any other project. Hence, I believe it’s a good idea switch i3 to autotools. Yes, it might be that particular features were easier to implement/understand in our custom Makefiles, and there might be individuals who have an easier time reading through our custom Makefiles than learning autotools. All of these considerations are outweighed by the benefits we get from using the same build system as literally thousands of other FOSS software packages. Aside from these somewhat philosophical considerations, there’s also practical improvements which this change brings us. See the “changes” section below. ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ new workflow │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ You can now build i3 like you build any other software package which uses autotools. Here’s a memory refresher: autoreconf -fi mkdir -p build && cd build ../configure make -j8 (The autoreconf -fi step is unnecessary if you are building from a release tarball, but shouldn’t hurt either.) ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ recommended reading │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ I very much recommend reading “A Practitioner's Guide to GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool” by John Calcote (https://www.nostarch.com/autotools.htm). That book is from 2010 and, AFAICT, is the most up to date comprehensive description of autotools. Do not read older documentation. In particular, if a document you’re reading mentions configure.in (deprecated filename) or recursive make (now considered harmful), it’s likely outdated. ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ changes │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ This commit implements the following new functionality/changes in behavior: • We use the AX_ENABLE_BUILDDIR macro to enforce builds happening in a separate directory. This is a prerequisite for the AX_EXTEND_SRCDIR macro and building in a separate directory is common practice anyway. In case this causes any trouble when packaging i3 for your distribution, please let me know. • “make check” runs the i3 testsuite. You can still use ./testcases/complete-run.pl to get the interactive progress output. • “make distcheck” (runs testsuite on “make dist” result, tiny bit quicker feedback cycle than waiting for the travis build to catch the issue). • “make uninstall” (occasionally requested by users who compile from source) • “make” will build manpages/docs by default if the tools are installed. Conversely, manpages/docs are not tried to be built for users who don’t want to install all these dependencies to get started hacking on i3. • non-release builds will enable address sanitizer by default. Use the --disable-sanitizers configure option to turn off all sanitizers, and see --help for available sanitizers. • Support for pre-compiled headers (PCH) has been dropped for now in the interest of simplicitly. Maybe we can re-add it later. • coverage reports are now generated using “make check-code-coverage”, which requires specifying --enable-code-coverage when calling configure. ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ build system feature parity/testing │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ In addition to what’s described above, I tested the following features: • “make install” installs the same files (plus documentation and manpages) cd i3-old && make install PREFIX=/tmp/inst/old cd i3-new && ./configure --prefix=/tmp/inst/new cd /tmp/inst (cd old && for f in $(find); do [ -e "../new/$f" ] || echo "$f missing"; done) • make dist generates a tarball which includes the same files cd i3-old && make dist cd i3-new/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu && make dist colordiff -u <(tar tf i3-old/i3-4.12.tar.bz2 | sort) \ <(tar tf i3-new/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/i3-4.12.tar.gz | sort) There are some expected differences: • Some files have been renamed (e.g. the new etc/ and share/ subdirectories) • Some files will now be generated at build-time, so only their corresponding .in file is shipped (e.g. testcases/complete-run.pl) • The generated parser files are shipped in the dist tarball (they only depend on the parser-specs/* files, not on the target system) • autotools infrastructure is shipped (e.g. “configure”, “missing”, etc.) • DLOG and ELOG statements still produce the same file name in logfiles • Listing source code in gdb still works. • gdb backtraces contain the i3-<version> path component • release.sh still works • version embedding 1. git checkout shows “4.12-136-gf720023 (2016-10-10, branch "autotools")” 2. tarball of a git version shows “4.12-non-git” 3. release tarball shows 4.13 • debug mode is enabled by default for non-release builds • enabling verbose builds via V=1 ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ speed │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ There is no noticeable difference in compilation speed itself (of binaries, documentation and manpages): i3-old $ time make all docs mans -j8 make all docs mans -j8 28.92s user 2.15s system 640% cpu 4.852 total i3-new $ time make -j8 make -j8 27.08s user 1.92s system 620% cpu 4.669 total In terms of one-time costs: configuring the build system (../configure) takes about 2.7s on my machine, generating the build system (autoreconf -fi) takes about 3.1s on my machine. ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ m4 macros │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ All files in m4/ have been copied from the autoconf-archive package in version b6aeb1988f4b6c78bf39d97b6c4f6e1d594d59b9 and should be updated whenever they change. This commit has been tested with autoconf 2.69 and automake 1.15.
2016-10-07 13:48:26 +02:00
$(pod_MANS): man/%.1: % man/$(dirstamp)
$(AM_V_GEN) @PATH_POD2MAN@ --utf8 $< > $@
else
asciidoc_MANS =
endif
AM_CPPFLAGS = \
Move SYSCONFDIR definition to makefile Official autoconf docs contraindicate the use of the $sysconfdir variable in configure.ac. For reference: https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.63/html_node/Installation-Directory-Variables.html The macro SYSCONFDIR (ordinarilly set to "/etc") is required to find a system configuration file installed with i3. In some build setups, this may not be defined properly in when the configure script is compiled. Instead, define this variable in AM_CPPFLAGS as the documentation indicates. fixes #2832
2017-07-12 16:57:23 +02:00
-DSYSCONFDIR="\"$(sysconfdir)\"" \
Switch to autotools (GNU build system) This commit probably comes as a surprise to some, given that one of i3’s explicitly stated goals used to be “Do not use programs such as autoconf/automake for configuration and creating unreadable/broken makefiles”. I phrased this goal over 7 years ago, based largely on a grudge that I inherited, which — as I’ve realized in the meantime — was largely held against FOSS in general, and not actually nuanced criticism of autotools. In the meantime, I have come to realize that the knee-jerk reaction of “I could do this better!” (i.e. writing our own build system in this particular case) is usually misguided, and nowadays I strongly suggest trying hard to fix the existing system for the benefit of all existing and future users. Further, I recently got to experience the other side of the coin, as I packaged a new version of FreeRADIUS for Debian, which at the time of writing used autoconf in combination with boilermake, a custom make-based build system that only FreeRADIUS uses. Understanding the build system enough to fix issues and enable parallel compilation took me an entire day. That time is time which potentially every downstream maintainer needs to invest, and the resulting knowledge cannot be applied to any other project. Hence, I believe it’s a good idea switch i3 to autotools. Yes, it might be that particular features were easier to implement/understand in our custom Makefiles, and there might be individuals who have an easier time reading through our custom Makefiles than learning autotools. All of these considerations are outweighed by the benefits we get from using the same build system as literally thousands of other FOSS software packages. Aside from these somewhat philosophical considerations, there’s also practical improvements which this change brings us. See the “changes” section below. ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ new workflow │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ You can now build i3 like you build any other software package which uses autotools. Here’s a memory refresher: autoreconf -fi mkdir -p build && cd build ../configure make -j8 (The autoreconf -fi step is unnecessary if you are building from a release tarball, but shouldn’t hurt either.) ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ recommended reading │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ I very much recommend reading “A Practitioner's Guide to GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool” by John Calcote (https://www.nostarch.com/autotools.htm). That book is from 2010 and, AFAICT, is the most up to date comprehensive description of autotools. Do not read older documentation. In particular, if a document you’re reading mentions configure.in (deprecated filename) or recursive make (now considered harmful), it’s likely outdated. ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ changes │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ This commit implements the following new functionality/changes in behavior: • We use the AX_ENABLE_BUILDDIR macro to enforce builds happening in a separate directory. This is a prerequisite for the AX_EXTEND_SRCDIR macro and building in a separate directory is common practice anyway. In case this causes any trouble when packaging i3 for your distribution, please let me know. • “make check” runs the i3 testsuite. You can still use ./testcases/complete-run.pl to get the interactive progress output. • “make distcheck” (runs testsuite on “make dist” result, tiny bit quicker feedback cycle than waiting for the travis build to catch the issue). • “make uninstall” (occasionally requested by users who compile from source) • “make” will build manpages/docs by default if the tools are installed. Conversely, manpages/docs are not tried to be built for users who don’t want to install all these dependencies to get started hacking on i3. • non-release builds will enable address sanitizer by default. Use the --disable-sanitizers configure option to turn off all sanitizers, and see --help for available sanitizers. • Support for pre-compiled headers (PCH) has been dropped for now in the interest of simplicitly. Maybe we can re-add it later. • coverage reports are now generated using “make check-code-coverage”, which requires specifying --enable-code-coverage when calling configure. ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ build system feature parity/testing │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ In addition to what’s described above, I tested the following features: • “make install” installs the same files (plus documentation and manpages) cd i3-old && make install PREFIX=/tmp/inst/old cd i3-new && ./configure --prefix=/tmp/inst/new cd /tmp/inst (cd old && for f in $(find); do [ -e "../new/$f" ] || echo "$f missing"; done) • make dist generates a tarball which includes the same files cd i3-old && make dist cd i3-new/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu && make dist colordiff -u <(tar tf i3-old/i3-4.12.tar.bz2 | sort) \ <(tar tf i3-new/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/i3-4.12.tar.gz | sort) There are some expected differences: • Some files have been renamed (e.g. the new etc/ and share/ subdirectories) • Some files will now be generated at build-time, so only their corresponding .in file is shipped (e.g. testcases/complete-run.pl) • The generated parser files are shipped in the dist tarball (they only depend on the parser-specs/* files, not on the target system) • autotools infrastructure is shipped (e.g. “configure”, “missing”, etc.) • DLOG and ELOG statements still produce the same file name in logfiles • Listing source code in gdb still works. • gdb backtraces contain the i3-<version> path component • release.sh still works • version embedding 1. git checkout shows “4.12-136-gf720023 (2016-10-10, branch "autotools")” 2. tarball of a git version shows “4.12-non-git” 3. release tarball shows 4.13 • debug mode is enabled by default for non-release builds • enabling verbose builds via V=1 ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ speed │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ There is no noticeable difference in compilation speed itself (of binaries, documentation and manpages): i3-old $ time make all docs mans -j8 make all docs mans -j8 28.92s user 2.15s system 640% cpu 4.852 total i3-new $ time make -j8 make -j8 27.08s user 1.92s system 620% cpu 4.669 total In terms of one-time costs: configuring the build system (../configure) takes about 2.7s on my machine, generating the build system (autoreconf -fi) takes about 3.1s on my machine. ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ m4 macros │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ All files in m4/ have been copied from the autoconf-archive package in version b6aeb1988f4b6c78bf39d97b6c4f6e1d594d59b9 and should be updated whenever they change. This commit has been tested with autoconf 2.69 and automake 1.15.
2016-10-07 13:48:26 +02:00
-I$(top_builddir)/parser \
-I$(top_srcdir)/include \
@AX_EXTEND_SRCDIR_CPPFLAGS@
i3_CFLAGS = \
$(AM_CFLAGS) \
$(libi3_CFLAGS) \
$(LIBSN_CFLAGS) \
$(XCB_CFLAGS) \
$(XCB_UTIL_CURSOR_CFLAGS) \
$(XCB_UTIL_KEYSYM_CFLAGS) \
$(XCB_UTIL_WM_CFLAGS) \
$(XCB_UTIL_XRM_CFLAGS) \
$(XKBCOMMON_CFLAGS) \
$(YAJL_CFLAGS) \
$(LIBPCRE_CFLAGS) \
$(PTHREAD_CFLAGS) \
$(CODE_COVERAGE_CFLAGS)
i3_CPPFLAGS = \
$(AM_CPPFLAGS) \
$(CODE_COVERAGE_CPPFLAGS)
i3_LDADD = \
$(libi3_LIBS) \
$(LIBSN_LIBS) \
$(XCB_LIBS) \
$(XCB_UTIL_CURSOR_LIBS) \
$(XCB_UTIL_KEYSYMS_LIBS) \
$(XCB_UTIL_WM_LIBS) \
$(XCB_UTIL_XRM_LIBS) \
$(XKBCOMMON_LIBS) \
$(YAJL_LIBS) \
$(LIBPCRE_LIBS) \
$(PANGOCAIRO_LIBS) \
$(PTHREAD_LIBS) \
$(CODE_COVERAGE_LDFLAGS)
libi3_CFLAGS = \
$(AM_CFLAGS) \
$(XCB_CFLAGS) \
$(XCB_UTIL_CFLAGS) \
$(XCB_UTIL_XRM_CFLAGS) \
$(YAJL_CFLAGS) \
$(PANGOCAIRO_CFLAGS)
libi3_LIBS = \
$(top_builddir)/libi3.a \
$(XCB_LIBS) \
$(XCB_UTIL_LIBS) \
$(XCB_UTIL_XRM_LIBS) \
$(YAJL_LIBS) \
$(PANGOCAIRO_LIBS)
libi3_a_CFLAGS = \
$(libi3_CFLAGS)
libi3_a_SOURCES = \
include/libi3.h \
libi3/dpi.c \
libi3/draw_util.c \
libi3/fake_configure_notify.c \
libi3/font.c \
libi3/format_placeholders.c \
libi3/get_colorpixel.c \
libi3/get_config_path.c \
libi3/get_exe_path.c \
libi3/get_mod_mask.c \
libi3/get_process_filename.c \
libi3/get_visualtype.c \
libi3/ipc_connect.c \
libi3/ipc_recv_message.c \
libi3/ipc_send_message.c \
libi3/is_debug_build.c \
libi3/mkdirp.c \
libi3/resolve_tilde.c \
libi3/root_atom_contents.c \
libi3/safewrappers.c \
libi3/string.c \
libi3/strndup.c \
libi3/ucs2_conversion.c
i3_dump_log_i3_dump_log_CFLAGS = \
$(AM_CFLAGS) \
$(PTHREAD_CFLAGS) \
$(libi3_CFLAGS)
i3_dump_log_i3_dump_log_LDADD = \
$(PTHREAD_LIBS) \
$(libi3_LIBS)
i3_dump_log_i3_dump_log_SOURCES = \
i3-dump-log/main.c
i3_input_i3_input_CFLAGS = \
$(AM_CFLAGS) \
$(libi3_CFLAGS)
i3_input_i3_input_LDADD = \
$(libi3_LIBS) \
$(XCB_UTIL_KEYSYMS_LIBS)
i3_input_i3_input_SOURCES = \
i3-input/i3-input.h \
i3-input/keysym2ucs.c \
i3-input/keysym2ucs.h \
i3-input/main.c
i3_msg_i3_msg_CFLAGS = \
$(AM_CFLAGS) \
$(libi3_CFLAGS)
i3_msg_i3_msg_LDADD = \
$(libi3_LIBS)
i3_msg_i3_msg_SOURCES = \
i3-msg/main.c
i3_nagbar_i3_nagbar_CFLAGS = \
$(AM_CFLAGS) \
$(libi3_CFLAGS)
i3_nagbar_i3_nagbar_LDADD = \
$(libi3_LIBS) \
$(XCB_UTIL_CURSOR_LIBS)
i3_nagbar_i3_nagbar_SOURCES = \
i3-nagbar/atoms.xmacro \
i3-nagbar/i3-nagbar.h \
i3-nagbar/main.c
i3bar_i3bar_CPPFLAGS = \
$(AM_CPPFLAGS) \
-I$(top_srcdir)/i3bar/include
i3bar_i3bar_CFLAGS = \
$(AM_CFLAGS) \
$(libi3_CFLAGS) \
$(XCB_CFLAGS) \
$(XKBCOMMON_CFLAGS) \
$(PANGOCAIRO_CFLAGS) \
$(YAJL_CFLAGS)
i3bar_i3bar_LDADD = \
$(libi3_LIBS) \
$(XCB_LIBS) \
$(XCB_UTIL_CURSOR_LIBS) \
$(XKBCOMMON_LIBS) \
$(PANGOCAIRO_LIBS) \
$(YAJL_LIBS)
i3bar_i3bar_SOURCES = \
i3bar/include/child.h \
i3bar/include/common.h \
i3bar/include/configuration.h \
i3bar/include/ipc.h \
i3bar/include/mode.h \
i3bar/include/outputs.h \
i3bar/include/parse_json_header.h \
i3bar/include/trayclients.h \
i3bar/include/util.h \
i3bar/include/workspaces.h \
i3bar/include/xcb_atoms.def \
i3bar/include/xcb.h \
i3bar/src/child.c \
i3bar/src/config.c \
i3bar/src/ipc.c \
i3bar/src/main.c \
i3bar/src/mode.c \
i3bar/src/outputs.c \
i3bar/src/parse_json_header.c \
i3bar/src/workspaces.c \
i3bar/src/xcb.c
i3_config_wizard_i3_config_wizard_CFLAGS = \
$(AM_CFLAGS) \
$(libi3_CFLAGS) \
$(XKBCOMMON_CFLAGS)
i3_config_wizard_i3_config_wizard_LDADD = \
$(libi3_LIBS) \
$(XCB_UTIL_KEYSYMS_LIBS) \
$(XKBCOMMON_LIBS)
i3_config_wizard_i3_config_wizard_SOURCES = \
i3-config-wizard/atoms.xmacro \
i3-config-wizard/main.c \
i3-config-wizard/xcb.h
tests: add inject_randr15 (#2573) This tool is similar to xtrace in usage in that it intercepts traffic to the X server. The motivating feature for writing the tool is its ability to inject prepared reply messages instead of the server’s reply. In this particular case, we’ll inject a RRGetMonitors reply to test i3’s RandR 1.5 code paths. The added testcase is a noop for now, but with the code that’s lingering in the randr15 branch, i3 does actually detect monitors as per the injected reply: 2016-11-20 21:10:05 - randr.c:__randr_query_outputs:618 - RandR 1.5 available, querying monitors 2016-11-20 21:10:05 - randr.c:__randr_query_outputs:628 - 1 RandR monitors found (timestamp 0) 2016-11-20 21:10:05 - randr.c:__randr_query_outputs:646 - name DP3, x 0, y 0, width 3840 px, height 2160 px, width 520 mm, height 290 mm, primary 1, automatic 1 This is preparation work for issue #1799
2016-11-21 08:20:14 +01:00
test_inject_randr15_CPPFLAGS = \
$(AM_CPPFLAGS)
test_inject_randr15_CFLAGS = \
$(AM_CFLAGS) \
$(i3_CFLAGS)
test_inject_randr15_SOURCES = \
testcases/inject_randr1.5.c
test_inject_randr15_LDADD = \
$(i3_LDADD)
Switch to autotools (GNU build system) This commit probably comes as a surprise to some, given that one of i3’s explicitly stated goals used to be “Do not use programs such as autoconf/automake for configuration and creating unreadable/broken makefiles”. I phrased this goal over 7 years ago, based largely on a grudge that I inherited, which — as I’ve realized in the meantime — was largely held against FOSS in general, and not actually nuanced criticism of autotools. In the meantime, I have come to realize that the knee-jerk reaction of “I could do this better!” (i.e. writing our own build system in this particular case) is usually misguided, and nowadays I strongly suggest trying hard to fix the existing system for the benefit of all existing and future users. Further, I recently got to experience the other side of the coin, as I packaged a new version of FreeRADIUS for Debian, which at the time of writing used autoconf in combination with boilermake, a custom make-based build system that only FreeRADIUS uses. Understanding the build system enough to fix issues and enable parallel compilation took me an entire day. That time is time which potentially every downstream maintainer needs to invest, and the resulting knowledge cannot be applied to any other project. Hence, I believe it’s a good idea switch i3 to autotools. Yes, it might be that particular features were easier to implement/understand in our custom Makefiles, and there might be individuals who have an easier time reading through our custom Makefiles than learning autotools. All of these considerations are outweighed by the benefits we get from using the same build system as literally thousands of other FOSS software packages. Aside from these somewhat philosophical considerations, there’s also practical improvements which this change brings us. See the “changes” section below. ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ new workflow │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ You can now build i3 like you build any other software package which uses autotools. Here’s a memory refresher: autoreconf -fi mkdir -p build && cd build ../configure make -j8 (The autoreconf -fi step is unnecessary if you are building from a release tarball, but shouldn’t hurt either.) ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ recommended reading │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ I very much recommend reading “A Practitioner's Guide to GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool” by John Calcote (https://www.nostarch.com/autotools.htm). That book is from 2010 and, AFAICT, is the most up to date comprehensive description of autotools. Do not read older documentation. In particular, if a document you’re reading mentions configure.in (deprecated filename) or recursive make (now considered harmful), it’s likely outdated. ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ changes │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ This commit implements the following new functionality/changes in behavior: • We use the AX_ENABLE_BUILDDIR macro to enforce builds happening in a separate directory. This is a prerequisite for the AX_EXTEND_SRCDIR macro and building in a separate directory is common practice anyway. In case this causes any trouble when packaging i3 for your distribution, please let me know. • “make check” runs the i3 testsuite. You can still use ./testcases/complete-run.pl to get the interactive progress output. • “make distcheck” (runs testsuite on “make dist” result, tiny bit quicker feedback cycle than waiting for the travis build to catch the issue). • “make uninstall” (occasionally requested by users who compile from source) • “make” will build manpages/docs by default if the tools are installed. Conversely, manpages/docs are not tried to be built for users who don’t want to install all these dependencies to get started hacking on i3. • non-release builds will enable address sanitizer by default. Use the --disable-sanitizers configure option to turn off all sanitizers, and see --help for available sanitizers. • Support for pre-compiled headers (PCH) has been dropped for now in the interest of simplicitly. Maybe we can re-add it later. • coverage reports are now generated using “make check-code-coverage”, which requires specifying --enable-code-coverage when calling configure. ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ build system feature parity/testing │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ In addition to what’s described above, I tested the following features: • “make install” installs the same files (plus documentation and manpages) cd i3-old && make install PREFIX=/tmp/inst/old cd i3-new && ./configure --prefix=/tmp/inst/new cd /tmp/inst (cd old && for f in $(find); do [ -e "../new/$f" ] || echo "$f missing"; done) • make dist generates a tarball which includes the same files cd i3-old && make dist cd i3-new/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu && make dist colordiff -u <(tar tf i3-old/i3-4.12.tar.bz2 | sort) \ <(tar tf i3-new/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/i3-4.12.tar.gz | sort) There are some expected differences: • Some files have been renamed (e.g. the new etc/ and share/ subdirectories) • Some files will now be generated at build-time, so only their corresponding .in file is shipped (e.g. testcases/complete-run.pl) • The generated parser files are shipped in the dist tarball (they only depend on the parser-specs/* files, not on the target system) • autotools infrastructure is shipped (e.g. “configure”, “missing”, etc.) • DLOG and ELOG statements still produce the same file name in logfiles • Listing source code in gdb still works. • gdb backtraces contain the i3-<version> path component • release.sh still works • version embedding 1. git checkout shows “4.12-136-gf720023 (2016-10-10, branch "autotools")” 2. tarball of a git version shows “4.12-non-git” 3. release tarball shows 4.13 • debug mode is enabled by default for non-release builds • enabling verbose builds via V=1 ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ speed │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ There is no noticeable difference in compilation speed itself (of binaries, documentation and manpages): i3-old $ time make all docs mans -j8 make all docs mans -j8 28.92s user 2.15s system 640% cpu 4.852 total i3-new $ time make -j8 make -j8 27.08s user 1.92s system 620% cpu 4.669 total In terms of one-time costs: configuring the build system (../configure) takes about 2.7s on my machine, generating the build system (autoreconf -fi) takes about 3.1s on my machine. ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ m4 macros │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ All files in m4/ have been copied from the autoconf-archive package in version b6aeb1988f4b6c78bf39d97b6c4f6e1d594d59b9 and should be updated whenever they change. This commit has been tested with autoconf 2.69 and automake 1.15.
2016-10-07 13:48:26 +02:00
test_commands_parser_CPPFLAGS = \
$(AM_CPPFLAGS) \
-DTEST_PARSER
test_commands_parser_CFLAGS = \
$(AM_CFLAGS) \
$(i3_CFLAGS)
test_commands_parser_SOURCES = \
src/commands_parser.c
test_commands_parser_LDADD = \
$(i3_LDADD)
test_config_parser_CPPFLAGS = \
$(AM_CPPFLAGS) \
-DTEST_PARSER
test_config_parser_CFLAGS = \
$(AM_CFLAGS) \
$(i3_CFLAGS)
test_config_parser_SOURCES = \
src/config_parser.c
test_config_parser_LDADD = \
$(i3_LDADD)
command_parser_SOURCES = \
parser/GENERATED_command_enums.h \
parser/GENERATED_command_tokens.h \
parser/GENERATED_command_call.h
config_parser_SOURCES = \
parser/GENERATED_config_enums.h \
parser/GENERATED_config_tokens.h \
parser/GENERATED_config_call.h
i3_SOURCES = \
$(command_parser_SOURCES) \
$(config_parser_SOURCES) \
include/all.h \
include/assignments.h \
include/atoms_NET_SUPPORTED.xmacro \
include/atoms_rest.xmacro \
include/atoms.xmacro \
include/bindings.h \
include/click.h \
include/cmdparse.h \
include/commands.h \
include/commands_parser.h \
include/config_directives.h \
include/configuration.h \
include/config_parser.h \
include/con.h \
include/data.h \
include/display_version.h \
include/ewmh.h \
include/fake_outputs.h \
include/floating.h \
include/handlers.h \
include/i3.h \
include/ipc.h \
include/key_press.h \
include/load_layout.h \
include/log.h \
include/main.h \
include/manage.h \
include/match.h \
include/move.h \
include/output.h \
include/queue.h \
include/randr.h \
include/regex.h \
include/render.h \
include/resize.h \
include/restore_layout.h \
include/scratchpad.h \
include/sd-daemon.h \
include/shmlog.h \
include/sighandler.h \
include/startup.h \
include/tree.h \
include/util.h \
include/window.h \
include/workspace.h \
include/xcb.h \
include/xcursor.h \
include/x.h \
include/xinerama.h \
include/yajl_utils.h \
src/assignments.c \
src/bindings.c \
src/click.c \
src/commands.c \
src/commands_parser.c \
src/con.c \
src/config.c \
src/config_directives.c \
src/config_parser.c \
src/display_version.c \
src/ewmh.c \
src/fake_outputs.c \
src/floating.c \
src/handlers.c \
src/ipc.c \
src/key_press.c \
src/load_layout.c \
src/log.c \
src/main.c \
src/manage.c \
src/match.c \
src/move.c \
src/output.c \
src/randr.c \
src/regex.c \
src/render.c \
src/resize.c \
src/restore_layout.c \
src/scratchpad.c \
src/sd-daemon.c \
src/sighandler.c \
src/startup.c \
src/tree.c \
src/util.c \
src/version.c \
src/window.c \
src/workspace.c \
src/x.c \
src/xcb.c \
src/xcursor.c \
src/xinerama.c
################################################################################
# parser generation
################################################################################
$(command_parser_SOURCES): %.h: i3-command-parser.stamp
$(config_parser_SOURCES): %.h: i3-config-parser.stamp
src/i3-commands_parser.$(OBJEXT): i3-command-parser.stamp
src/i3-config_parser.$(OBJEXT): i3-config-parser.stamp
i3-command-parser.stamp: parser/$(dirstamp) generate-command-parser.pl parser-specs/commands.spec
$(AM_V_GEN) $(top_srcdir)/generate-command-parser.pl --input=$(top_srcdir)/parser-specs/commands.spec --prefix=command
$(AM_V_at) mv GENERATED_command_* $(top_builddir)/parser
$(AM_V_at) touch $@
i3-config-parser.stamp: parser/$(dirstamp) generate-command-parser.pl parser-specs/config.spec
$(AM_V_GEN) $(top_srcdir)/generate-command-parser.pl --input=$(top_srcdir)/parser-specs/config.spec --prefix=config
$(AM_V_at) mv GENERATED_config_* $(top_builddir)/parser
$(AM_V_at) touch $@
testcases: remove external AnyEvent::I3 dependency
2017-08-19 16:51:51 +02:00
################################################################################
# AnyEvent-I3 build process
################################################################################
Makefile.am: fix anyevent-i3.stamp dependencies
2017-08-19 19:05:25 +02:00
anyevent-i3.stamp: AnyEvent-I3/lib/AnyEvent/I3.pm
testcases: remove external AnyEvent::I3 dependency
2017-08-19 16:51:51 +02:00
$(AM_V_BUILD) (cd $(top_srcdir)/AnyEvent-I3 && perl Makefile.PL && make)
$(AM_V_at) touch $@
Switch to autotools (GNU build system) This commit probably comes as a surprise to some, given that one of i3’s explicitly stated goals used to be “Do not use programs such as autoconf/automake for configuration and creating unreadable/broken makefiles”. I phrased this goal over 7 years ago, based largely on a grudge that I inherited, which — as I’ve realized in the meantime — was largely held against FOSS in general, and not actually nuanced criticism of autotools. In the meantime, I have come to realize that the knee-jerk reaction of “I could do this better!” (i.e. writing our own build system in this particular case) is usually misguided, and nowadays I strongly suggest trying hard to fix the existing system for the benefit of all existing and future users. Further, I recently got to experience the other side of the coin, as I packaged a new version of FreeRADIUS for Debian, which at the time of writing used autoconf in combination with boilermake, a custom make-based build system that only FreeRADIUS uses. Understanding the build system enough to fix issues and enable parallel compilation took me an entire day. That time is time which potentially every downstream maintainer needs to invest, and the resulting knowledge cannot be applied to any other project. Hence, I believe it’s a good idea switch i3 to autotools. Yes, it might be that particular features were easier to implement/understand in our custom Makefiles, and there might be individuals who have an easier time reading through our custom Makefiles than learning autotools. All of these considerations are outweighed by the benefits we get from using the same build system as literally thousands of other FOSS software packages. Aside from these somewhat philosophical considerations, there’s also practical improvements which this change brings us. See the “changes” section below. ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ new workflow │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ You can now build i3 like you build any other software package which uses autotools. Here’s a memory refresher: autoreconf -fi mkdir -p build && cd build ../configure make -j8 (The autoreconf -fi step is unnecessary if you are building from a release tarball, but shouldn’t hurt either.) ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ recommended reading │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ I very much recommend reading “A Practitioner's Guide to GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool” by John Calcote (https://www.nostarch.com/autotools.htm). That book is from 2010 and, AFAICT, is the most up to date comprehensive description of autotools. Do not read older documentation. In particular, if a document you’re reading mentions configure.in (deprecated filename) or recursive make (now considered harmful), it’s likely outdated. ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ changes │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ This commit implements the following new functionality/changes in behavior: • We use the AX_ENABLE_BUILDDIR macro to enforce builds happening in a separate directory. This is a prerequisite for the AX_EXTEND_SRCDIR macro and building in a separate directory is common practice anyway. In case this causes any trouble when packaging i3 for your distribution, please let me know. • “make check” runs the i3 testsuite. You can still use ./testcases/complete-run.pl to get the interactive progress output. • “make distcheck” (runs testsuite on “make dist” result, tiny bit quicker feedback cycle than waiting for the travis build to catch the issue). • “make uninstall” (occasionally requested by users who compile from source) • “make” will build manpages/docs by default if the tools are installed. Conversely, manpages/docs are not tried to be built for users who don’t want to install all these dependencies to get started hacking on i3. • non-release builds will enable address sanitizer by default. Use the --disable-sanitizers configure option to turn off all sanitizers, and see --help for available sanitizers. • Support for pre-compiled headers (PCH) has been dropped for now in the interest of simplicitly. Maybe we can re-add it later. • coverage reports are now generated using “make check-code-coverage”, which requires specifying --enable-code-coverage when calling configure. ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ build system feature parity/testing │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ In addition to what’s described above, I tested the following features: • “make install” installs the same files (plus documentation and manpages) cd i3-old && make install PREFIX=/tmp/inst/old cd i3-new && ./configure --prefix=/tmp/inst/new cd /tmp/inst (cd old && for f in $(find); do [ -e "../new/$f" ] || echo "$f missing"; done) • make dist generates a tarball which includes the same files cd i3-old && make dist cd i3-new/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu && make dist colordiff -u <(tar tf i3-old/i3-4.12.tar.bz2 | sort) \ <(tar tf i3-new/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/i3-4.12.tar.gz | sort) There are some expected differences: • Some files have been renamed (e.g. the new etc/ and share/ subdirectories) • Some files will now be generated at build-time, so only their corresponding .in file is shipped (e.g. testcases/complete-run.pl) • The generated parser files are shipped in the dist tarball (they only depend on the parser-specs/* files, not on the target system) • autotools infrastructure is shipped (e.g. “configure”, “missing”, etc.) • DLOG and ELOG statements still produce the same file name in logfiles • Listing source code in gdb still works. • gdb backtraces contain the i3-<version> path component • release.sh still works • version embedding 1. git checkout shows “4.12-136-gf720023 (2016-10-10, branch "autotools")” 2. tarball of a git version shows “4.12-non-git” 3. release tarball shows 4.13 • debug mode is enabled by default for non-release builds • enabling verbose builds via V=1 ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ speed │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ There is no noticeable difference in compilation speed itself (of binaries, documentation and manpages): i3-old $ time make all docs mans -j8 make all docs mans -j8 28.92s user 2.15s system 640% cpu 4.852 total i3-new $ time make -j8 make -j8 27.08s user 1.92s system 620% cpu 4.669 total In terms of one-time costs: configuring the build system (../configure) takes about 2.7s on my machine, generating the build system (autoreconf -fi) takes about 3.1s on my machine. ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ m4 macros │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ All files in m4/ have been copied from the autoconf-archive package in version b6aeb1988f4b6c78bf39d97b6c4f6e1d594d59b9 and should be updated whenever they change. This commit has been tested with autoconf 2.69 and automake 1.15.
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testcases: remove external AnyEvent::I3 dependency
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