glibc has an add-ons mechanism to allow additional software to be
integrated into the glibc build. Such add-ons may be within the glibc
source tree, or outside it at a path passed to the --enable-add-ons
configure option.
localedata and crypt were once add-ons, distributed in separate
release tarballs, but long since stopped using that mechanism.
Linuxthreads was always an add-on. Ports spent some time as an add-on
with separate release tarballs, then was first moved into the glibc
source tree, then had its sysdeps files moved into the main sysdeps
hierarchy so the add-ons mechanism was no longer used. NPTL spent
some time as an add-on in the main glibc tree before stopping using
the add-on mechanism. libidn used to have separate release tarballs
but no longer does so, but still uses the add-ons mechanism within the
glibc source tree. Various other software has supported building with
the add-ons mechanism at times in the past, but I don't think any is
still widely used.
Add-ons involve significant, little-used complexity in the glibc build
system, and make it hard to understand what the space of possible
glibc configurations is. This patch removes the add-ons mechanism.
libidn is now built via the Subdirs mechanism to cause any
configuration using sysdeps/unix/inet to build libidn; HAVE_LIBIDN
(which effectively means shared libraries are available) is now
defined via sysdeps/unix/inet/configure. Various references to
add-ons around the source tree are removed (in the case of maint.texi,
the example list of sysdeps directories is still very out of date).
Externally maintained ports should now put their files in the normal
sysdeps directory structure rather than being arranged as add-ons;
they probably need to change e.g. elf.h anyway, rather than actually
being able to work just as a drop-in subtree. Hurd libpthread should
be arranged similarly to NPTL, so some files might go in a
hurd-pthreads (or similar) top-level directory in glibc, while sysdeps
files should go in the normal sysdeps directory structure (possibly in
hurd or hurd-pthreads subdirectories, just as there are nptl
subdirectories in the sysdeps tree).
Tested for x86_64, and with build-many-glibcs.py.
* configure.ac (--enable-add-ons): Remove option.
(machine): Do not mention add-ons in comment.
(LIBC_PRECONFIGURE): Likewise.
(add_ons): Remove variable and sanity checks and logic to locate
add-ons.
(add_ons_automatic): Remove variable.
(configured_add_ons): Likewise.
(add_ons_sfx): Likewise.
(add_ons_pfx): Likewise.
(add_on_subdirs): Likewise.
(sysnames_add_ons): Likewise. Remove loop over add-ons and
consideration of add-ons in Implies handling.
(sysdeps_add_ons): Likewise.
* configure: Regenerated.
* libidn/configure.ac: Remove.
* libidn/configure: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/inet/configure.ac: New file.
* sysdeps/unix/inet/configure: New generated file.
* sysdeps/unix/inet/Subdirs: Add libidn.
* Makeconfig (sysdeps-srcdirs): Remove variable.
(+sysdep_dirs): Do not include $(sysdeps-srcdirs).
($(common-objpfx)config.status): Do not depend on add-on files.
($(common-objpfx)shlib-versions.v.i): Do not mention add-ons in
comment.
(all-subdirs): Do not include $(add-on-subdirs).
* Makefile (dist-prepare): Do not use $(sysdeps-add-ons).
* config.make.in (add-ons): Remove variable.
(add-on-subdirs): Likewise.
(sysdeps-add-ons): Likewise.
* manual/Makefile (add-chapters): Remove.
($(objpfx)texis): Do not depend on $(add-chapters).
(nonexamples): Do not handle $(add-chapters).
(examples): Do not handle $(add-ons).
(chapters.% top-menu.%): Do not pass '$(add-chapters)' to
libc-texinfo.sh.
* manual/install.texi (Installation): Do not mention add-ons.
(--enable-add-ons): Do not document configure option.
* INSTALL: Regenerated.
* manual/libc-texinfo.sh: Do not handle $2 add-ons argument.
* manual/maint.texi (Hierarchy Conventions): Do not mention
add-ons.
* scripts/build-many-glibcs.py (Glibc.build_glibc): Do not use
--enable-add-ons.
* scripts/gen-sorted.awk: Do not handle Subdirs files from
add-ons.
* scripts/test-installation.pl: Do not handle glibc-compat add-on.
* sysdeps/nptl/Makeconfig: Do not mention add-ons in comment.
($(all-subdirs-targets)): Use it in place of -C option.
* Rules: Use $(..) instead of ../ if it's already defined.
* Makeconfig (subdir-srcdirs): New variable.
* csu/Makefile (all-Banner-files): Use it.
* configure.in (--enable-add-ons): Set to "yes" by default.
Handle absolute add-on directory names when looking for configure
fragments. Also look for sysdeps/*/preconfigure fragments in add-ons.
Require add-on configure to set $libc_add_on_canonical, use
that in $add_ons_sfx. Substitute add_on_subdirs with computed list
of subdir names each add-on configure set in libc_add_on_subdirs.
* configure: Regenerated.
* Makefile (%/preconfigure: %/preconfigure.in): New pattern rule.
* config.make.in (add-on-subdirs): New substituted variable.
* Makeconfig (all-subdirs): Include $(add-on-subdirs).
Remove $(add-ons), $(sysdep-subdirs).
Don't filter out $(sysdep-inhibit-subdirs).
($(common-objpfx)sysd-dirs): Target removed. Don't include it.
($(common-objpfx)sysd-sorted): Rewritten to feed Depend and Subdirs
files together to gen-sorted.awk, and $(subdirs) via -v.
(subdirs): Remove magic reordering for mach and hurd.
* scripts/gen-sorted.awk: Use subdirs from command line.
Process Subdirs and Depend files directly.
Let Subdirs files use "first dir" and "inhibit dir".
Always move elf to the end of the list.
* hurd/Depend: New file.
* sysdeps/mach/Subdirs: Use "first mach".
* Makefile (dist-separate): Remove linuxthreads.
(dist-separate-linuxthreads): Variable removed.
(glibc-%.tar rule): Use $(sysdeps-add-ons).
* Makerules ($(common-objpfx)Versions.v.i): Use $(subdirs),
not $(all-subdirs).
(sysdep-makefiles): Use $(sysdirs).
(sysdirs): Remove export.
($(+sysdir_pfx)sysd-rules): Handle absolute directory names in
$(config-sysdirs).
(+sysdir_pfx): Variable removed.
(sysd-rules): Use $(common-objpfx) in place of it.
(sysdirs): Variable moved to ...
* Makeconfig (sysdirs): ... here.
Handle absolute directory names in $(config-sysdirs).
(full_config_sysdirs): Variable removed.
* csu/Makefile: Use $(sysdirs) in vpath directive.
* math/Makefile (ulps-file): Use $(sysdirs).
* sysdeps/gnu/Makefile (errlist-c): Likewise.
($(objpfx)errlist-compat.c): Likewise.
* Makeconfig (all-Subdirs-files): Likewise.
($(common-objpfx)config.status): Likewise.
* configure.in (sysnames): Handle absolute add-on directory names.
(sysdeps_add_ons): New variable, AC_SUBST it.
Compute which add-ons contributed sysdeps directories.
* configure: Regenerated.
* config.make.in (sysdeps-add-ons): New substituted variable.
* Makerules (+sysdep_dirs, +sysdep-includes): Variables moved ...
* Makeconfig: ... to here.
(+sysdep_dirs): Append $(sysdeps-add-ons) here.
(+includes): Remove $(objpfx) include, already in $(+sysdep_dirs).
Remove $(includes).
(sysdep-makeconfigs): Use $(+sysdep_dirs).
($(common-objpfx)shlib-versions.v.i): Likewise.
* Makeconfig: Remove hair to set Makeconfig-add-on.
* sysdeps/unix/Makefile (sysdirs): Remove export.
(asm_CPP): Variable removed.
($(common-objpfx)sysd-syscalls): Pass them directly for the script.
* sysdeps/posix/Makefile: New file.
* Makerules (L_tmpnam, TMP_MAX, L_ctermid, L_cuserid): Set non-posix
values here with ?=.
* stdlib/gen-mpn-copy: File removed.
* stdlib/Makefile (distribute): Remove it.
* configure.in: Don't grok --with-gmp.
* configure: Regenerated.
* configure.in (libc_cv_idn): Don't check it; libidn/configure does it.
* configure: Regenerated.
* bare: Directory removed, saved in ports repository.
1998-11-19 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
* Makeconfig: Add comment to all-subdirs definition.
Add rule to generate sysd-sorted. Include this file and and set
subdirs value to $(sorted-subdirs).
* scripts/gen-sorted.awk: New file.
* Make-dist (+tsrcs): Add Depend.
* nscd/Depend: New file.
* nss/Depend: New file.
* rt/Depend: New file.
* manual/errno.texi> Change the short text for ENODEV to
"No such device".
Joseph Myers
Marko Myllynen
Allan McRae
Roland McGrath
Ulrich Drepper
Jakub Jelinek