few possible exceptions [1]) have information about end products (such
as scripts, library files and programs) and source files (such as C
files, C header files, assembler files, etc). Intermediate files such
-as object files are rarely directly refered to in build.info files (and
+as object files are rarely directly referred to in build.info files (and
when they are, it's always with the file name extension .o), they are
-infered by Configure. By the same rule of minimalism, end product
+inferred by Configure. By the same rule of minimalism, end product
file name extensions (such as .so, .a, .exe, etc) are never mentioned
-in build.info. Their file name extensions will be infered by the
+in build.info. Their file name extensions will be inferred by the
build-file templates, adapted for the platform they are meant for (see
sections on %unified_info and build-file templates further down).
The variables PROGRAMS, LIBS, ENGINES and SCRIPTS are used to declare
-end products.
+end products. There are variants for them with '_NO_INST' as suffix
+(PROGRAM_NO_INST etc) to specify end products that shouldn't get
+installed.
The variables SOURCE, DEPEND, INCLUDE and ORDINALS are indexed by a
produced file, and their values are the source used to produce that
SOURCE[../libcrypto]=aes.c evp.c cversion.c
DEPEND[cversion.o]=buildinf.h
- BEGINRAW[Makefile(unix)]
- crypto/buildinf.h : Makefile
- perl util/mkbuildinf.h "$(CC) $(CFLAGS)" "$(PLATFORM)" \
- > crypto/buildinf.h
- ENDRAW[Makefile(unix)]
+ GENERATE[buildinf.h]=../util/mkbuildinf.pl "$(CC) $(CFLAGS)" "$(PLATFORM)"
+ DEPEND[buildinf.h]=../Makefile
+ DEPEND[../util/mkbuildinf.pl]=../util/Foo.pm
This is the build.info file in 'crypto', and it tells us a little more
about what's needed to produce 'libcrypto'. LIBS is used again to
source files, 'crypto/aes.c', 'crypto/evp.c' and 'crypto/cversion.c'.
It also shows us that building the object file inferred from
'crypto/cversion.c' depends on 'crypto/buildinf.h'. Finally, it
-also shows the possibility to include raw build-file statements in a
-build.info file, in this case showing how 'buildinf.h' is built on
-Unix-like operating systems.
+also shows the possibility to declare how some files are generated
+using some script, in this case a perl script, and how such scripts
+can be declared to depend on other files, in this case a perl module.
Two things are worth an extra note:
-'DEPEND[cversion.o]' mentiones an object file. DEPEND indexes is the
+'DEPEND[cversion.o]' mentions an object file. DEPEND indexes is the
only location where it's valid to mention them
Lines in 'BEGINRAW'..'ENDRAW' sections must always mention files as
library 'libssl' is built from the source file 'ssl/tls.c'.
# engines/build.info
- ENGINES=libossltest
- SOURCE[libossltest]=e_ossltest.c
- DEPEND[libossltest]=../libcrypto
- INCLUDE[libossltest]=../include
-
-This is the build.info file in 'engines/', telling us that an engine
-called 'engines/libossltest' shall be built, that it's source is
+ ENGINES=dasync
+ SOURCE[dasync]=e_dasync.c
+ DEPEND[dasync]=../libcrypto
+ INCLUDE[dasync]=../include
+
+ ENGINES_NO_INST=ossltest
+ SOURCE[ossltest]=e_ossltest.c
+ DEPEND[ossltest]=../libcrypto.a
+ INCLUDE[ossltest]=../include
+
+This is the build.info file in 'engines/', telling us that two engines
+called 'engines/dasync' and 'engines/ossltest' shall be built, that
+dasync's source is 'engines/e_dasync.c' and ossltest's source is
'engines/e_ossltest.c' and that the include directory 'include/' may
-be used when building anything that will be part of this engine.
-Finally, the engine 'engines/libossltest' depends on the library
-'libcrypto' to function properly.
+be used when building anything that will be part of these engines.
+Also, both engines depend on the library 'libcrypto' to function
+properly. ossltest is explicitly linked with the static variant of
+the library 'libcrypto'. Finally, only dasync is being installed, as
+ossltest is only for internal testing.
When Configure digests these build.info files, the accumulated
information comes down to this:
INCLUDE[apps/openssl]=. include
DEPEND[apps/openssl]=libssl
- ENGINES=engines/libossltest
- SOURCE[engines/libossltest]=engines/e_ossltest.c
- DEPEND[engines/libossltest]=libcrypto
- INCLUDE[engines/libossltest]=include
+ ENGINES=engines/dasync
+ SOURCE[engines/dasync]=engines/e_dasync.c
+ DEPEND[engines/dasync]=libcrypto
+ INCLUDE[engines/dasync]=include
+
+ ENGINES_NO_INST=engines/ossltest
+ SOURCE[engines/ossltest]=engines/e_ossltest.c
+ DEPEND[engines/ossltest]=libcrypto.a
+ INCLUDE[engines/ossltest]=include
- BEGINRAW[Makefile(unix)]
- crypto/buildinf.h : Makefile
- perl util/mkbuildinf.h "$(CC) $(CFLAGS)" "$(PLATFORM)" \
- > crypto/buildinf.h
- ENDRAW[Makefile(unix)]
+ GENERATE[crypto/buildinf.h]=util/mkbuildinf.pl "$(CC) $(CFLAGS)" "$(PLATFORM)"
+ DEPEND[crypto/buildinf.h]=Makefile
+ DEPEND[util/mkbuildinf.pl]=util/Foo.pm
A few notes worth mentioning:
ENGINES may be used to declare engines only.
-The indexes for SOURCE, INCLUDE and ORDINALS must only be end product
-files, such as libraries, programs or engines. The values of SOURCE
+The indexes for SOURCE and ORDINALS must only be end product files,
+such as libraries, programs or engines. The values of SOURCE
variables must only be source files (possibly generated)
-DEPEND shows a relationship between different end product files, such
-as a program depending on a library, or between an object file and
-some extra source file.
+INCLUDE and DEPEND shows a relationship between different files
+(usually produced files) or between files and directories, such as a
+program depending on a library, or between an object file and some
+extra source file.
When Configure processes the build.info files, it will take it as
truth without question, and will therefore perform very few checks.
engines => a list of engines. These are directly inferred from
the ENGINES variable in build.info files.
+ generate => a hash table containing 'file' => [ 'generator' ... ]
+ pairs. These are directly inferred from the GENERATE
+ variables in build.info files.
+
includes => a hash table containing 'file' => [ 'include' ... ]
pairs. These are directly inferred from the INCLUDE
variables in build.info files.
+ install => a hash table containing 'type' => [ 'file' ... ] pairs.
+ The types are 'programs', 'libraries', 'engines' and
+ 'scripts', and the array of files list the files of
+ that type that should be installed.
+
libraries => a list of libraries. These are directly inferred from
the LIBS variable in build.info files.
SOURCE variables, and AS source files for programs and
libraries.
+ shared_sources =>
+ a hash table just like 'sources', but only as source
+ files (object files) for building shared libraries.
+
As an example, here is how the build.info files example from the
section above would be digested into a %unified_info table:
[
"libssl",
],
+ "crypto/buildinf.h" =>
+ [
+ "Makefile",
+ ],
"crypto/cversion.o" =>
[
"crypto/buildinf.h",
],
- "engines/libossltest" =>
+ "engines/dasync" =>
[
"libcrypto",
],
+ "engines/ossltest" =>
+ [
+ "libcrypto.a",
+ ],
"libssl" =>
[
"libcrypto",
],
+ "util/mkbuildinf.pl" =>
+ [
+ "util/Foo.pm",
+ ],
},
"engines" =>
[
- "engines/libossltest",
+ "engines/dasync",
+ "engines/ossltest",
],
+ "generate" =>
+ {
+ "crypto/buildinf.h" =>
+ [
+ "util/mkbuildinf.pl",
+ "\"\$(CC)",
+ "\$(CFLAGS)\"",
+ "\"$(PLATFORM)\"",
+ ],
+ },
"includes" =>
{
"apps/openssl" =>
".",
"include",
],
- "engines/libossltest" =>
+ "engines/ossltest" =>
[
"include"
],
[
"include",
],
+ "util/mkbuildinf.pl" =>
+ [
+ "util",
+ ],
}
+ "install" =>
+ {
+ "engines" =>
+ [
+ "engines/dasync",
+ ],
+ "libraries" =>
+ [
+ "libcrypto",
+ "libssl",
+ ],
+ "programs" =>
+ [
+ "apps/openssl",
+ ],
+ },
"libraries" =>
[
"libcrypto",
"libcrypto" =>
[
"crypto",
- "util/libeay.num",
+ "util/libcrypto.num",
],
"libssl" =>
[
"ssl",
- "util/ssleay.num",
+ "util/libssl.num",
],
},
"programs" =>
],
"rawlines" =>
[
- "crypto/buildinf.h : Makefile",
- " perl util/mkbuildinf.h \"\$(CC) \$(CFLAGS)\" \"\$(PLATFORM)\" \\"
- " > crypto/buildinf.h"
],
"sources" =>
{
[
"crypto/evp.c",
],
+ "engines/e_dasync.o" =>
+ [
+ "engines/e_dasync.c",
+ ],
+ "engines/dasync" =>
+ [
+ "engines/e_dasync.o",
+ ],
"engines/e_ossltest.o" =>
[
"engines/e_ossltest.c",
],
- "engines/libossltest" =>
+ "engines/ossltest" =>
[
"engines/e_ossltest.o",
],
},
);
-As can be seen, everything in %unified_info is fairly simple nuggest
+As can be seen, everything in %unified_info is fairly simple suggest
of information. Still, it tells us that to build all programs, we
must build 'apps/openssl', and to build the latter, we will need to
build all its sources ('apps/openssl.o' in this case) and all the
from static libraries, to programs from object files and libraries,
etc.
- src2dep - function that produces build file lines to get the
- dependencies for an object file into a dependency
- file.
+ generatesrc - function that produces build file lines to generate
+ a source file from some input.
It's called like this:
- src2dep(obj => "PATH/TO/objectfile",
- srcs => [ "PATH/TO/sourcefile", ... ],
- incs => [ "INCL/PATH", ... ]);
-
- 'obj' has the dependent object file as well as
- object file the dependencies are for; it's *without*
- extension, src2dep() is expected to add that.
- 'srcs' has the list of source files to build the
- object file, with the first item being the source
- file that directly corresponds to the object file.
- 'incs' is a list of include file directories.
+ generatesrc(src => "PATH/TO/tobegenerated",
+ generator => [ "generatingfile", ... ]
+ generator_incs => [ "INCL/PATH", ... ]
+ generator_deps => [ "dep1", ... ]
+ incs => [ "INCL/PATH", ... ],
+ deps => [ "dep1", ... ],
+ intent => one of "libs", "dso", "bin" );
+
+ 'src' has the name of the file to be generated.
+ 'generator' is the command or part of command to
+ generate the file, of which the first item is
+ expected to be the file to generate from.
+ generatesrc() is expected to analyse and figure out
+ exactly how to apply that file and how to capture
+ the result. 'generator_incs' and 'generator_deps'
+ are include directories and files that the generator
+ file itself depends on. 'incs' and 'deps' are
+ include directories and files that are used if $(CC)
+ is used as an intermediary step when generating the
+ end product (the file indicated by 'src'). 'intent'
+ indicates what the generated file is going to be
+ used for.
src2obj - function that produces build file lines to build an
object file from source files and associated data.
src2obj(obj => "PATH/TO/objectfile",
srcs => [ "PATH/TO/sourcefile", ... ],
deps => [ "dep1", ... ],
- incs => [ "INCL/PATH", ... ]);
+ incs => [ "INCL/PATH", ... ]
+ intent => one of "lib", "dso", "bin" );
'obj' has the intended object file *without*
extension, src2obj() is expected to add that.
'srcs' has the list of source files to build the
object file, with the first item being the source
file that directly corresponds to the object file.
- 'deps' is a list of dependencies. 'incs' is a list
- of include file directories.
+ 'deps' is a list of explicit dependencies. 'incs'
+ is a list of include file directories. Finally,
+ 'intent' indicates what this object file is going
+ to be used for.
obj2lib - function that produces build file lines to build a
static library file ("libfoo.a" in Unix terms) from
'lib' has the intended library file name *without*
extension, libobj2shlib is expected to add that.
- 'shlib' has the correcponding shared library name
+ 'shlib' has the corresponding shared library name
*without* extension. 'deps' has the list of other
libraries (also *without* extension) this library
needs to be linked with. 'objs' has the list of
this library. 'ordinals' MAY be present, and when
it is, its value is an array where the word is
"crypto" or "ssl" and the file is one of the ordinal
- files util/libeay.num or util/ssleay.num in the
+ files util/libcrypto.num or util/libssl.num in the
source directory.
This function has a choice; it can use the
functions defined in the build-file template.
As an example with the smaller build.info set we've seen as an
-example, producing the rules to build 'libssl' would result in the
+example, producing the rules to build 'libcrypto' would result in the
following calls:
# Note: libobj2shlib will only be called if shared libraries are
# Note 2: libobj2shlib gets both the name of the static library
# and the names of all the object files that go into it. It's up
# to the implementation to decide which to use as input.
- libobj2shlib(shlib => "libssl",
- lib => "libssl",
- objs => [ "ssl/tls.o" ],
- deps => [ "libcrypto" ]
- ordinals => [ "ssl", "util/ssleay.num" ]);
-
- obj2lib(lib => "libssl"
- objs => [ "ssl/tls.o" ]);
-
- # Note 3: common.tmpl peals off the ".o" extension, as the
- # platform at hand may have a different one.
- src2obj(obj => "ssl/tls"
- srcs => [ "ssl/tls.c" ],
+ # Note 3: common.tmpl peals off the ".o" extension from all object
+ # files, as the platform at hand may have a different one.
+ libobj2shlib(shlib => "libcrypto",
+ lib => "libcrypto",
+ objs => [ "crypto/aes", "crypto/evp", "crypto/cversion" ],
+ deps => [ ]
+ ordinals => [ "crypto", "util/libcrypto.num" ]);
+
+ obj2lib(lib => "libcrypto"
+ objs => [ "crypto/aes", "crypto/evp", "crypto/cversion" ]);
+
+ src2obj(obj => "crypto/aes"
+ srcs => [ "crypto/aes.c" ],
deps => [ ],
- incs => [ "include" ]);
+ incs => [ "include" ],
+ intent => "lib");
- src2dep(obj => "ssl/tls"
- srcs => [ "ssl/tls.c" ],
- incs => [ "include" ]);
+ src2obj(obj => "crypto/evp"
+ srcs => [ "crypto/evp.c" ],
+ deps => [ ],
+ incs => [ "include" ],
+ intent => "lib");
+
+ src2obj(obj => "crypto/cversion"
+ srcs => [ "crypto/cversion.c" ],
+ deps => [ "crypto/buildinf.h" ],
+ incs => [ "include" ],
+ intent => "lib");
+
+ generatesrc(src => "crypto/buildinf.h",
+ generator => [ "util/mkbuildinf.pl", "\"$(CC)",
+ "$(CFLAGS)\"", "\"$(PLATFORM)\"" ],
+ generator_incs => [ "util" ],
+ generator_deps => [ "util/Foo.pm" ],
+ incs => [ ],
+ deps => [ ],
+ intent => "lib");
The returned strings from all those calls are then concatenated
together and written to the resulting build-file.