From 907ced8460dee3763c5890a69f9d5e126621041e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lars Wirzenius Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:08:14 +0100 Subject: STart a build system abstraction with autodetection --- morphlib/buildsystem.py | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+) create mode 100644 morphlib/buildsystem.py (limited to 'morphlib/buildsystem.py') diff --git a/morphlib/buildsystem.py b/morphlib/buildsystem.py new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7ac56cf4 --- /dev/null +++ b/morphlib/buildsystem.py @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +# Copyright (C) 2012 Codethink Limited +# +# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify +# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by +# the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License. +# +# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +# GNU General Public License for more details. +# +# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along +# with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., +# 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. + + +class BuildSystem(object): + + '''An abstraction of an upstream build system. + + Some build systems are well known: autotools, for example. + Others are purely manual: there's a set of commands to run that + are specific for that project, and (almost) no other project uses them. + The Linux kernel would be an example of that. + + This class provides an abstraction for these, including a method + to autodetect well known build systems. + + ''' + + def used_by_project(self, srcdir): + '''Does project at ``srcdir`` use this build system?''' + raise NotImplementedError() # pragma: no cover + + +class ManualBuildSystem(BuildSystem): + + '''A manual build system where the morphology must specify all commands.''' + + def used_by_project(self, srcdir): + return False + +class AutotoolsBuildSystem(BuildSystem): + + '''The automake/autoconf/libtool holy trinity.''' + -- cgit v1.2.1