We went back-and-forth a bit on this. Very old meson would print a message
about detecting the program if a quoted argument was used, leading to a lot of
noise. So we started to convert various places to use the variable, but then it
turned out that meson < 0.56.2 doesn't handle this correctly and we reverted to
using strings everywhere in 7c22f07cbd. Then at
some point we stopped supporting old meson and over time we started using the
variable in various places again, somewhat inconsistently. Then most calls to
'sh' were removed in 9289e093ae when
install_emptydir() builtin started being used.
Now meson allows either the string or variable to be used, and doesn't print a
message if the string is used. Let's use the variable everywhere. For 'sh', we
could do either, but for other variables, we _do_ want the detection to happen,
for example for git, find, awk, which might not be installed and we want to
detect that early, before we start the build. It would be ugly to use quotes
for some programs, but not for others. Also, a string is still refused for
test(), so we couldn't use the string version even if we didn't care about
detection.
The approach to use '''…'''.split() instead of a list of strings was initially
used when converting from automake because it allowed identical blocks of lines
to be used for both, making the conversion easier.
But over the years we have been using normal lists more and more, especially
when there were just a few filenames listed. This converts the rest.
No functional change.
Currently, running "meson build" followed by "meson test -C build"
will result in many failed tests due to missing dependencies. This
commit adds the missing dependencies to make sure no tests fail.
Old meson fails with:
Element not a string: [<Holder: <ExternalProgram 'sh' -> ['/bin/sh']>>, '-c', 'test -n "$DESTDIR" || /bin/journalctl --update-catalog']
I'm doing it as a revert so that it's easy to undo the revert when we require
newer meson. The effect is not so bad, maybe a dozen or so lines about finding
'sh'.
Meson 0.58 has gotten quite bad with emitting a message every time
a quoted command is used:
Program /home/zbyszek/src/systemd-work/tools/meson-make-symlink.sh found: YES (/home/zbyszek/src/systemd-work/tools/meson-make-symlink.sh)
Program sh found: YES (/usr/bin/sh)
Program sh found: YES (/usr/bin/sh)
Program sh found: YES (/usr/bin/sh)
Program sh found: YES (/usr/bin/sh)
Program sh found: YES (/usr/bin/sh)
Program sh found: YES (/usr/bin/sh)
Program xsltproc found: YES (/usr/bin/xsltproc)
Configuring custom-entities.ent using configuration
Message: Skipping bootctl.1 because ENABLE_EFI is false
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Message: Skipping journal-remote.conf.5 because HAVE_MICROHTTPD is false
Message: Skipping journal-upload.conf.5 because HAVE_MICROHTTPD is false
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Message: Skipping loader.conf.5 because ENABLE_EFI is false
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
Program ln found: YES (/usr/bin/ln)
...
Let's suffer one message only for each command. Hopefully we can silence
even this when https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/8642 is
resolved.
Files which are installed as-is (any .service and other unit files, .conf
files, .policy files, etc), are left as is. My assumption is that SPDX
identifiers are not yet that well known, so it's better to retain the
extended header to avoid any doubt.
I also kept any copyright lines. We can probably remove them, but it'd nice to
obtain explicit acks from all involved authors before doing that.
So far I avoided adding license headers to meson files, but they are pretty
big and important and should carry license headers like everything else.
I added my own copyright, even though other people modified those files too.
But this is mostly symbolic, so I hope that's OK.
The indentation for emacs'es meson-mode is added .dir-locals.
All files are reindented automatically, using the lasest meson-mode from git.
Indentation should now be fairly consistent.
Tests can be run with 'ninja-build test' or using 'mesontest'.
'-Dtests=unsafe' can be used to include the "unsafe" tests in the
test suite, same as with autotools.
v2:
- use more conf.get guards are optional components
- declare deps on generated headers for test-{af,arphrd,cap}-list
v3:
- define environment for tests
Most test don't need this, but to be consistent with autotools-based build, and
to avoid questions which tests need it and which don't, set the same environment
for all tests.
v4:
- rework test generation
Use a list of lists to define each test. This way we can reduce the
boilerplate somewhat, although the test listings are still pretty verbose. We
can also move the definitions of the tests to the subdirs. Unfortunately some
subdirs are included earlier than some of the libraries that test binaries
are linked to. So just dump all definitions of all tests that cannot be
defined earlier into src/test. The `executable` definitions are still at the
top level, so the binaries are compiled into the build root.
v5:
- tag test-dnssec-complex as manual
v6:
- fix HAVE_LIBZ typo
- add missing libgobject/libgio defs
- mark test-qcow2 as manual
It's crucial that we can build systemd using VS2010!
... er, wait, no, that's not the official reason. We need to shed old systems
by requring python 3! Oh, no, it's something else. Maybe we need to throw out
345 years of knowlege accumulated in autotools? Whatever, this new thing is
cool and shiny, let's use it.
This is not complete, I'm throwing it out here for your amusement and critique.
- rules for sd-boot are missing. Those might be quite complicated.
- rules for tests are missing too. Those are probably quite simple and
repetitive, but there's lots of them.
- it's likely that I didn't get all the conditions right, I only tested "full"
compilation where most deps are provided and nothing is disabled.
- busname.target and all .busname units are skipped on purpose.
Otherwise, installation into $DESTDIR has the same list of files and the
autoconf install, except for .la files.
It'd be great if people had a careful look at all the library linking options.
I added stuff until things compiled, and in the end there's much less linking
then in the old system. But it seems that there's still a lot of unnecessary
deps.
meson has a `shared_module` statement, which sounds like something appropriate
for our nss and pam modules. Unfortunately, I couldn't get it to work. For the
nss modules, we need an .so version of '2', but `shared_module` disallows the
version argument. For the pam module, it also didn't work, I forgot the reason.
The handling of .m4 and .in and .m4.in files is rather awkward. It's likely
that this could be simplified. If make support is ever dropped, I think it'd
make sense to switch to a different templating system so that two different
languages and not required, which would make everything simpler yet.
v2:
- use get_pkgconfig_variable
- use sh not bash
- use add_project_arguments
v3:
- drop required:true and fix progs/prog typo
v4:
- use find_library('bz2')
- add TTY_GID definition
- define __SANE_USERSPACE_TYPES__
- use join_paths(prefix, ...) is used on all paths to make them all absolute
v5:
- replace all declare_dependency's with []
- add more conf.get guards around optional components
v6:
- drop -pipe, -Wall which are the default in meson
- use compiler.has_function() and compiler.has_header_symbol instead of the
hand-rolled checks.
- fix duplication in 'liblibsystemd' library name
- use the right .sym file for pam_systemd
- rename 'compiler' to 'cc': shorter, and more idiomatic.
v7:
- use ENABLE_ENVIRONMENT_D not HAVE_ENVIRONMENT_D
- rename prefix to prefixdir, rootprefix to rootprefixdir
("prefix" is too common of a name and too easy to overwrite by mistake)
- wrap more stuff with conf.get('ENABLE...') == 1
- use rootprefix=='/' and rootbindir as install_dir, to fix paths under
split-usr==true.
v8:
- use .split() also for src/coredump. Now everything is consistent ;)
- add rootlibdir option and use it on the libraries that require it
v9:
- indentation
v10:
- fix check for qrencode and libaudit
v11:
- unify handling of executable paths, provide options for all progs
This makes the meson build behave slightly differently than the
autoconf-based one, because we always first try to find the executable in the
filesystem, and fall back to the default. I think different handling of
loadkeys, setfont, and telinit was just a historical accident.
In addition to checking in $PATH, also check /usr/sbin/, /sbin for programs.
In Fedora $PATH includes /usr/sbin, (and /sbin is is a symlink to /usr/sbin),
but in Debian, those directories are not included in the path.
C.f. https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/1576.
- call all the options 'xxx-path' for clarity.
- sort man/rules/meson.build properly so it's stable
