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2010-01-05 Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz@redhat.com>
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Porting and Maintenance - <a id="id744430" class="indexterm"></a> -</h2></div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="appendix_porting.html#appendix.porting.build_hacking">Configure and Build Hacking</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="appendix_porting.html#build_hacking.prereq">Prerequisites</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="appendix_porting.html#build_hacking.map">Overview: What Comes from Where</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="appendix_porting.html#build_hacking.scripts">Storing Information in non-AC files (like configure.host)</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="appendix_porting.html#build_hacking.conventions">Coding and Commenting Conventions</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="appendix_porting.html#build_hacking.acinclude">The acinclude.m4 layout</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="appendix_porting.html#build_hacking.enable">GLIBCXX_ENABLE, the --enable maker</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="internals.html">Porting to New Hardware or Operating Systems</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="internals.html#internals.os">Operating System</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="internals.html#internals.cpu">CPU</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="internals.html#internals.char_types">Character Types</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="internals.html#internals.thread_safety">Thread Safety</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="internals.html#internals.numeric_limits">Numeric Limits</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="internals.html#internals.libtool">Libtool</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="test.html">Test</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="test.html#test.organization">Organization</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="test.html#test.run">Running the 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Evolution and Deprecation History</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="api.html#api.rel_300">3.0</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="api.html#api.rel_310">3.1</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="api.html#api.rel_320">3.2</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="api.html#api.rel_330">3.3</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="api.html#api.rel_340">3.4</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="api.html#api.rel_400">4.0</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="api.html#api.rel_410">4.1</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="api.html#api.rel_420">4.2</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="api.html#api.rel_430">4.3</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="backwards.html">Backwards Compatibility</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="backwards.html#backwards.first">First</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="backwards.html#backwards.second">Second</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="backwards.html#backwards.third">Third</a></span></dt></dl></dd></dl></div><div class="sect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="appendix.porting.build_hacking"></a>Configure and Build Hacking</h2></div></div></div><div class="sect2" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a id="build_hacking.prereq"></a>Prerequisites</h3></div></div></div><p> + <a id="id407464" class="indexterm"></a> +</h2></div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="appendix_porting.html#appendix.porting.build_hacking">Configure and Build Hacking</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="appendix_porting.html#build_hacking.prereq">Prerequisites</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="appendix_porting.html#build_hacking.map">Overview: What Comes 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href="abi.html#abi.cxx_interface">The C++ Interface</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="abi.html#abi.versioning">Versioning</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="abi.html#abi.changes_allowed">Allowed Changes</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="abi.html#abi.changes_no">Prohibited Changes</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="abi.html#abi.impl">Implementation</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="abi.html#abi.testing">Testing</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="abi.html#abi.issues">Outstanding Issues</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="api.html">API Evolution and Deprecation History</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="api.html#api.rel_300"><code class="constant">3.0</code></a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="api.html#api.rel_310"><code class="constant">3.1</code></a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="api.html#api.rel_320"><code class="constant">3.2</code></a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="api.html#api.rel_330"><code class="constant">3.3</code></a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="api.html#api.rel_340"><code class="constant">3.4</code></a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="api.html#api.rel_400"><code class="constant">4.0</code></a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="api.html#api.rel_410"><code class="constant">4.1</code></a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="api.html#api.rel_420"><code class="constant">4.2</code></a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="api.html#api.rel_430"><code class="constant">4.3</code></a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="api.html#api.rel_440"><code class="constant">4.4</code></a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="api.html#api.rel_450"><code class="constant">4.5</code></a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="backwards.html">Backwards Compatibility</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="backwards.html#backwards.first">First</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="backwards.html#backwards.second">Second</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="backwards.html#backwards.third">Third</a></span></dt></dl></dd></dl></div><div class="sect1" title="Configure and Build Hacking"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="appendix.porting.build_hacking"></a>Configure and Build Hacking</h2></div></div></div><div class="sect2" title="Prerequisites"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a id="build_hacking.prereq"></a>Prerequisites</h3></div></div></div><p> As noted <a class="ulink" href="http://gcc.gnu.org/install/prerequisites.html" target="_top">previously</a>, certain other tools are necessary for hacking on files that control configure (<code class="code">configure.ac</code>, @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ in GCC try to stay in sync with each other in terms of versions of the auto-tools used, so please try to play nicely with the neighbors. - </p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a id="build_hacking.map"></a>Overview: What Comes from Where</h3></div></div></div><pre class="screen"> + </p></div><div class="sect2" title="Overview: What Comes from Where"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a id="build_hacking.map"></a>Overview: What Comes from Where</h3></div></div></div><pre class="screen"> <img src="../images/confdeps.png" alt="Dependency Graph Configure to Build Files" /> </pre><p> Regenerate all generated files by using the command sequence @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ <a class="ulink" href="http://gcc.gnu.org/install/prerequisites.html" target="_top">the current requirements</a> and your vendor's choice of installation names. - </p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a id="build_hacking.scripts"></a>Storing Information in non-AC files (like configure.host)</h3></div></div></div><p> + </p></div><div class="sect2" title="Storing Information in non-AC files (like configure.host)"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a id="build_hacking.scripts"></a>Storing Information in non-AC files (like configure.host)</h3></div></div></div><p> Until that glorious day when we can use AC_TRY_LINK with a cross-compiler, we have to hardcode the results of what the tests would have shown if they could be run. So we have an inflexible @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ for instance, but then we would need arguments to aclocal/autoconf to properly find them all when generating configure. I would discourage that. -</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a id="build_hacking.conventions"></a>Coding and Commenting Conventions</h3></div></div></div><p> +</p></div><div class="sect2" title="Coding and Commenting Conventions"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a id="build_hacking.conventions"></a>Coding and Commenting Conventions</h3></div></div></div><p> Most comments should use {octothorpes, shibboleths, hash marks, pound signs, whatever} rather than "dnl". Nearly all comments in configure.ac should. Comments inside macros written in ancilliary @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ Do not use any <code class="code">$target*</code> variables, such as <code class="code">$target_alias</code>. The single exception is in configure.ac, for automake+dejagnu's sake. - </p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a id="build_hacking.acinclude"></a>The acinclude.m4 layout</h3></div></div></div><p> + </p></div><div class="sect2" title="The acinclude.m4 layout"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a id="build_hacking.acinclude"></a>The acinclude.m4 layout</h3></div></div></div><p> The nice thing about acinclude.m4/aclocal.m4 is that macros aren't actually performed/called/expanded/whatever here, just loaded. So we can arrange the contents however we like. As of this writing, @@ -139,14 +139,14 @@ </pre><p> Things which we don't seem to use directly, but just has to be present otherwise stuff magically goes wonky. -</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a id="build_hacking.enable"></a><code class="constant">GLIBCXX_ENABLE</code>, the <code class="literal">--enable</code> maker</h3></div></div></div><p> +</p></div><div class="sect2" title="GLIBCXX_ENABLE, the --enable maker"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a id="build_hacking.enable"></a><code class="constant">GLIBCXX_ENABLE</code>, the <code class="literal">--enable</code> maker</h3></div></div></div><p> All the GLIBCXX_ENABLE_FOO macros use a common helper, GLIBCXX_ENABLE. (You don't have to use it, but it's easy.) The helper does two things for us: - </p><div class="orderedlist"><ol type="1"><li><p> + </p><div class="orderedlist"><ol class="orderedlist" type="1"><li class="listitem"><p> Builds the call to the AC_ARG_ENABLE macro, with --help text properly quoted and aligned. (Death to changequote!) - </p></li><li><p> + </p></li><li class="listitem"><p> Checks the result against a list of allowed possibilities, and signals a fatal error if there's no match. This means that the rest of the GLIBCXX_ENABLE_FOO macro doesn't need to test for @@ -168,13 +168,13 @@ GLIBCXX_ENABLE (FEATURE, DEFAULT, HELP-ARG, HELP-STRING) GLIBCXX_ENABLE (FEATURE, DEFAULT, HELP-ARG, HELP-STRING, permit a|b|c) GLIBCXX_ENABLE (FEATURE, DEFAULT, HELP-ARG, HELP-STRING, SHELL-CODE-HANDLER) -</pre><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p> +</pre><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="disc"><li class="listitem"><p> FEATURE is the string that follows --enable. The results of the test (such as it is) will be in the variable $enable_FEATURE, where FEATURE has been squashed. Example: <code class="code">[extra-foo]</code>, controlled by the --enable-extra-foo option and stored in $enable_extra_foo. - </p></li><li><p> + </p></li><li class="listitem"><p> DEFAULT is the value to store in $enable_FEATURE if the user does not pass --enable/--disable. It should be one of the permitted values passed later. Examples: <code class="code">[yes]</code>, or @@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ For cases where we need to probe for particular models of things, it is useful to have an undocumented "auto" value here (see GLIBCXX_ENABLE_CLOCALE for an example). - </p></li><li><p> + </p></li><li class="listitem"><p> HELP-ARG is any text to append to the option string itself in the --help output. Examples: <code class="code">[]</code> (i.e., an empty string, which appends nothing), <code class="code">[=BAR]</code>, which produces @@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ that's how you embed autoconf special characters in output text. They're called <a class="ulink" href="http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Quadrigraphs" target="_top"><span class="emphasis"><em>quadrigraphs</em></span></a> and you should use them whenever necessary. - </p></li><li><p>HELP-STRING is what you think it is. Do not include the + </p></li><li class="listitem"><p>HELP-STRING is what you think it is. Do not include the "default" text like we used to do; it will be done for you by GLIBCXX_ENABLE. By convention, these are not full English sentences. Example: [turn on extra foo] |