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[openssl.git] / Configurations / README.design
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@@ -37,12 +37,13 @@ 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
-particular produced file, extra dependencies, include directories
-needed, and ordinal files (explained further below.
+The variables SOURCE, DEPEND and INCLUDE are indexed by a produced
+file, and their values are the source used to produce that particular
+produced file, extra dependencies, and include directories needed.
 
 All their values in all the build.info throughout the source tree are
 collected together and form a set of programs, libraries, engines and
@@ -55,18 +56,15 @@ dependencies.
 
     # build.info
     LIBS=libcrypto libssl
-    ORDINALS[libcrypto]=crypto
-    ORDINALS[libssl]=ssl
     INCLUDE[libcrypto]=include
     INCLUDE[libssl]=include
     DEPEND[libssl]=libcrypto
 
 This is the top directory build.info file, and it tells us that two
-libraries are to be built, there are some ordinals to be used to
-declare what symbols in those libraries are seen as public, the
-include directory 'include/' shall be used throughout when building
-anything that will end up in each library, and that the library
-'libssl' depend on the library 'libcrypto' to function properly.
+libraries are to be built, the include directory 'include/' shall be
+used throughout when building anything that will end up in each
+library, and that the library 'libssl' depend on the library
+'libcrypto' to function properly.
 
     # apps/build.info
     PROGRAMS=openssl
@@ -91,6 +89,7 @@ depends on the library 'libssl' to function properly.
     
     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
@@ -103,9 +102,9 @@ This build.info file informs us that 'libcrypto' is built from a few
 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:
 
@@ -123,27 +122,33 @@ This is the build.info file in 'ssl/', and it tells us that the
 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:
 
     LIBS=libcrypto libssl
-    ORDINALS[libcrypto]=crypto
     SOURCE[libcrypto]=crypto/aes.c crypto/evp.c crypto/cversion.c
     DEPEND[crypto/cversion.o]=crypto/buildinf.h
     INCLUDE[libcrypto]=include
-    ORDINALS[libssl]=ssl
     SOURCE[libssl]=ssl/tls.c
     INCLUDE[libssl]=include
     DEPEND[libssl]=libcrypto
@@ -153,13 +158,19 @@ 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
     
     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:
@@ -170,13 +181,14 @@ PROGRAMS may be used to declare programs only.
 
 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
-variables must only be source files (possibly generated)
+The indexes for SOURCE 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 produced 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.
@@ -202,19 +214,22 @@ indexes:
   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.
 
-  ordinals  => a hash table containing 'file' => [ 'word', 'ordfile' ]
-               pairs.  'file' and 'word' are directly inferred from
-               the ORDINALS variables in build.info files, while the
-               file 'ofile' comes from internal knowledge in
-               Configure.
-
   programs  => a list of programs.  These are directly inferred from
                the PROGRAMS variable in build.info files.
 
@@ -247,23 +262,46 @@ 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" =>
@@ -271,7 +309,7 @@ section above would be digested into a %unified_info table:
                         ".",
                         "include",
                     ],
-                "engines/libossltest" =>
+                "engines/ossltest" =>
                     [
                         "include"
                     ],
@@ -283,34 +321,38 @@ section above would be digested into a %unified_info table:
                     [
                         "include",
                     ],
+                "util/mkbuildinf.pl" =>
+                    [
+                        "util",
+                    ],
             }
-        "libraries" =>
-            [
-                "libcrypto",
-                "libssl",
-            ],
-        "ordinals" =>
+        "install" =>
             {
-                "libcrypto" =>
+                "engines" =>
                     [
-                        "crypto",
-                        "util/libcrypto.num",
+                        "engines/dasync",
                     ],
-                "libssl" =>
+                "libraries" =>
                     [
-                        "ssl",
-                        "util/libssl.num",
+                        "libcrypto",
+                        "libssl",
                     ],
-            },
+                "programs" =>
+                    [
+                        "apps/openssl",
+                    ],
+           },
+        "libraries" =>
+            [
+                "libcrypto",
+                "libssl",
+            ],
         "programs" =>
             [
                 "apps/openssl",
             ],
         "rawlines" =>
             [
-                "crypto/buildinf.h : Makefile",
-                "      perl util/mkbuildinf.h \"\$(CC) \$(CFLAGS)\" \"\$(PLATFORM)\" \\"
-                "          > crypto/buildinf.h"
             ],
         "sources" =>
             {
@@ -334,11 +376,19 @@ section above would be digested into a %unified_info table:
                     [
                         "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",
                     ],
@@ -382,6 +432,34 @@ build static libraries from object files, to build shared libraries
 from static libraries, to programs from object files and libraries,
 etc.
 
+    generatesrc - function that produces build file lines to generate
+                  a source file from some input.
+
+                  It's called like this:
+
+                        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.
 
@@ -393,8 +471,9 @@ etc.
                                 incs => [ "INCL/PATH", ... ]
                                 intent => one of "lib", "dso", "bin" );
 
-                  'obj' has the intended object file *without*
-                  extension, src2obj() is expected to add that.
+                  'obj' has the intended object file with '.o'
+                  extension, src2obj() is expected to change it to
+                  something more suitable for the platform.
                   '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.
@@ -414,56 +493,50 @@ etc.
 
                   'lib' has the intended library file name *without*
                   extension, obj2lib is expected to add that.  'objs'
-                  has the list of object files (also *without*
-                  extension) to build this library.
+                  has the list of object files to build this library.
+
+    libobj2shlib - backward compatibility function that's used the
+                  same way as obj2shlib (described next), and was
+                  expected to build the shared library from the
+                  corresponding static library when that was suitable.
+                  NOTE: building a shared library from a static
+                  library is now DEPRECATED, as they no longer share
+                  object files.  Attempting to do this will fail.
 
-    libobj2shlib - function that produces build file lines to build a
+    obj2shlib   - function that produces build file lines to build a
                   shareable object library file ("libfoo.so" in Unix
-                  terms) from the corresponding static library file
-                  or object files.
+                  terms) from the corresponding object files.
 
                   called like this:
 
-                        libobj2shlib(shlib => "PATH/TO/shlibfile",
-                                     lib => "PATH/TO/libfile",
-                                     objs => [ "PATH/TO/objectfile", ... ],
-                                     deps => [ "PATH/TO/otherlibfile", ... ],
-                                     ordinals => [ "word", "/PATH/TO/ordfile" ]);
+                        obj2shlib(shlib => "PATH/TO/shlibfile",
+                                  lib => "PATH/TO/libfile",
+                                  objs => [ "PATH/TO/objectfile", ... ],
+                                  deps => [ "PATH/TO/otherlibfile", ... ]);
 
-                  'lib' has the intended library file name *without*
-                  extension, libobj2shlib is expected to add that.
+                  'lib' has the base (static) library file name
+                  *without* extension.  This is useful in case
+                  supporting files are needed (such as import
+                  libraries on Windows).
                   '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
-                  object files (also *without* extension) to build
-                  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/libcrypto.num or util/libssl.num in the
-                  source directory.
-
-                  This function has a choice; it can use the
-                  corresponding static library as input to make the
-                  shared library, or the list of object files.
+                  object files to build this library.
 
-    obj2dynlib  - function that produces build file lines to build a
-                  dynamically loadable library file ("libfoo.so" on
-                  Unix) from object files.
+    obj2dso     - function that produces build file lines to build a
+                  dynamic shared object file from object files.
 
                   called like this:
 
-                        obj2dynlib(lib => "PATH/TO/libfile",
-                                   objs => [ "PATH/TO/objectfile", ... ],
-                                   deps => [ "PATH/TO/otherlibfile",
-                                   ... ]);
+                        obj2dso(lib => "PATH/TO/libfile",
+                                objs => [ "PATH/TO/objectfile", ... ],
+                                deps => [ "PATH/TO/otherlibfile",
+                                ... ]);
 
-                  This is almost the same as libobj2shlib, but the
+                  This is almost the same as obj2shlib, but the
                   intent is to build a shareable library that can be
-                  loaded in runtime (a "plugin"...).  The differences
-                  are subtle, one of the most visible ones is that the
-                  resulting shareable library is produced from object
-                  files only.
+                  loaded in runtime (a "plugin"...).
 
     obj2bin     - function that produces build file lines to build an
                   executable file from object files.
@@ -476,11 +549,10 @@ etc.
 
                   'bin' has the intended executable file name
                   *without* extension, obj2bin is expected to add
-                  that.  'objs' has the list of object files (also
-                  *without* extension) to build this library.  'deps'
-                  has the list of library files (also *without*
-                  extension) that the programs needs to be linked
-                  with.
+                  that.  'objs' has the list of object files to build
+                  this library.  'deps' has the list of library files
+                  (also *without* extension) that the programs needs
+                  to be linked with.
 
     in2script   - function that produces build file lines to build a
                   script file from some input.
@@ -501,33 +573,46 @@ programs and all intermediate files, using the rule generating
 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: obj2shlib will only be called if shared libraries are
     # to be produced.
-    # 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/libssl.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 2: obj2shlib must convert the '.o' extension to whatever
+    # is suitable on the local platform.
+    obj2shlib(shlib => "libcrypto",
+              objs => [ "crypto/aes.o", "crypto/evp.o", "crypto/cversion.o" ],
+              deps => [  ]);
+
+    obj2lib(lib => "libcrypto"
+            objs => [ "crypto/aes.o", "crypto/evp.o", "crypto/cversion.o" ]);
+
+    src2obj(obj => "crypto/aes.o"
+            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.o"
+            srcs => [ "crypto/evp.c" ],
+            deps => [ ],
+            incs => [ "include" ],
+            intent => "lib");
+
+    src2obj(obj => "crypto/cversion.o"
+            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.