It was suggested that the project files be moved here as we don't actually
need to go two directory layers from $(srcroot), and would help us to
standardize on things in the future across the board.
At some point, upstream SystemTap changed from using a
STAP_HAS_SEMAPHORES preprocessor variable for this, to using
_SDT_HAS_SEMAPHORES instead. We need to update our build system to
disable that as well.
The original discussion about use of semaphores is here:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=606044
This was breaking the build with -flto enabled, either because -flto
doesn’t work with semaphores.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=768198
In parallel with g_log(), add a new structured logging API, based around
g_log_structured() and various helper functions which are exposed
publicly to allow programs to build their own logging policies easily,
without having to rewrite a lot of gmessages.c because it’s all
internal.
See the expanded documentation at the top of gmessages.c for some
rationale. See the g_log_structured() documentation for some example
code.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=744456
In a vague attempt at ensuring the .stp scripts can be closely
associated with the .so files which they hard-code references to, rename
the scripts so they include the LT version — so that they are the .so
file name plus .stp.
This does not fix the fact that our .stp scripts will not work on
multiarch systems, as they are installed in an architecture-independent
directory (/usr/share/systemtap/tapset). At the moment, it is
recommended that any distribution who package the .stp files should
install them in the architecture-specific subdirectories of this (for
example, /usr/share/systemtap/tapset/x86-64).
A better long-term solution for this is under discussion upstream:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20264https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662802
The ability to pass libtool via $(CC) to dtrace and have it respect this
appears to be a feature that is only present in the systemtap version of
the tool. In particular, FreeBSD (which seems to be using a copy of the
tool from Solaris) doesn't support this.
The result is that, with $(CC) ignored, and a .lo file specified in -o,
we get an ELF written to the .lo.
Instead of trying to have dtrace run libtool we can have libtool run
dtrace. dtrace is really just a compiler that produces an object file
here, and it even understands -o, so libtool can make the appropriate
adjustments.
There appears to be some prior art for this approach. A quick search
shows that at least QEMU is using this approach. It also appears to
work on Linux with systemtap's dtrace and on FreeBSD.
This may regress cross-compilation because the dtrace command will have
no way of knowing which compiler we intend for it to use to produce the
object file. I say "may" because I don't know if dtrace ever worked in
the first place under cross-compilation.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=725902
glib installs a gdb helper file named `glib.py`.
Then the "hook" file updates `sys.path` and does `import glib`.
This will fail if glib has already been imported into gdb, say
using `from gi.repository import GLib`. This is due to a namespace clash.
One fix would be to rename the gdb helper files to not clash with
other Python modules. This should be done for all such helper files.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=760186
Apparently whoever made the last tarball didn't have `--enable-systemtap`.
Disted files shouldn't depend on build flags.
Also, it is cathartic for me to say tarballs are dumb and we should
just be pulling from git which is what's canonically tracking what's
source code and what's not and we don't need to repeat ourself in
`Makefile.am`.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=762637
Rather than calculating it at configure time. This means it can expand
$libdir properly, and use the Make $(realpath) function rather than
invoking the non-portable `readlink -f`.
This fixes problems where `readlink` would be called on an invalid path
(due to a variable not being expanded) and would evaluate to "", which
would then cause things to be installed in the wrong place.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=744772
This causes several problems:
- Compilation in FreeBSD with --enable-gtk-doc broke
- Modules that still use the AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT macro
doesnt compile anymore because /usr/share/glib-2.0/gettext
is not filled with the correct files, as this was done in
the glib custom po/Makefile.in.in
See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=622991
This reverts commit e5c752371c.
Make use of the common autotools module that is used to generate the MSVC
project files from their respective templates so that the main build files
beccome cleaner, and enhance them in a way that the headers that should be
installed can be written to the property sheets during 'make dist', so that
the chances of missing headers for MSVC builds can be greatly reduced.
Also use this autotools module to fill in the projects for
glib-compile-schemas and glib-compile-resources.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735429
Add a new function, g_str_to_ascii() that does locale-dependent ASCII
transliteration of UTF-8 strings.
This function works off of an internal database. We get the data out of
the localedata shipped with glibc, which seems to be just about the best
source of locale-sensitive transliteration information available
anywhere.
We include a update script with this commit that's not used by anything
at all -- it will just sit in git. It is intended to be run manually
from time to time.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=710142
We have a configure.ac check for lib.exe that attempts to enable
creation of .lib files for our 5 public libraries. That has been broken
for a long time for two reasons:
1) the Makefiles hardcode 'lib' instead of 'lib.exe'
2) we dropped generation of .def files quite some time ago (except for
in gthread where we have the two-symbol file under version control)
Add new rules for creating .def files from dumpbin.exe (which you should
have if you have lib.exe) and fix the .lib rules to use lib.exe.
Add a bit of $(AM_V_GEN) all around, as well.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=722033
g_test_init() was calling _g_messages_set_exit_on_fatal() from
subprocesses, to make fatal log messages call _exit() rather than
abort(), but the function name is sort of confusing, and we don't
really need it anyway, since g_log() can just call g_test_subprocess()
instead and decide for itself.
Likewise, update g_assertion_message() to do the check itself, rather
than calling into gmessages to do it, and fix
g_assertion_message_expr() to also check whether it should exit or
abort. (Previously it always called abort(), although this didn't
actually matter since that was dead code until
test_nonfatal_assertions was added.)
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=711800
Fix the warnings when compiling and linking the probes files by
calling dtrace with all the -W flags removed from CFLAGS (since dtrace
generates bad C code), and with CC set to "libtool --mode=compile ..."
(so that it will output a proper .lo file and libtool won't warn when
linking it into the .la).
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693335
Perform a substantial cleanup of the build system with respect to
building and installing testcases.
First, Makefile.decl has been renamed glib.mk and substantially
expanded. We intend to add more stuff here in the future, like canned
rules for mkenums, marshallers, resources, etc.
By default, tests are no longer compiled as part of 'make'. They will
be built when 'make check' is run. The old behaviour can be obtained
with --enable-always-build-tests.
--disable-modular-tests is gone (because tests are no longer built by
default). There is no longer any way to cause 'make check' to be a
no-op, but that's not very useful anyway.
A new glibtests.m4 file is introduced. Along with glib.mk, this
provides for consistent handling of --enable-installed-tests and
--enable-always-build-tests (mentioned above).
Port our various test-installing Makefiles to the new framework.
This patch substantially improves the situation in the toplevel tests/
directory. Things are now somewhat under control there. There were
some tests being built that weren't even being run and we run those now.
The long-running GObject performance tests in this directory have been
removed from 'make check' because they take too long.
As an experiment, 'make check' now runs the testcases on win32 builds,
by default. We can't run them under gtester (since it uses a pipe to
communicate with the subprocess) so just toss them in TESTS. Most of
them are passing on win32.
Things are not quite done here, but this patch is already a substantial
improvement. More to come.
Since we expect them to crash, let's not spam the system
core dump collection (systemd, abrt). At the moment
systemd is not very robust against programs crashing
in loops.
Instead of aborting, we exit(1).
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=700714
This is a BSD-licenced header file that is designed to be copy-pasted
into programs. It will allow us to detect if we are running under
Valgrind and send "client requests" to it.
We will use this for a couple of reasons in upcoming patches.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=698595
Some (broken) toolchains for example trip up
-Werror=missing-prototypes in system headers. This patch allows
people to skip the formerly hardcoded "baseline" warnings.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=694757
Before this commit, the only difference between the expected and actual
ABI were the addition of _init and _fini symbols in each module (now
that regexp-based export control is not catching those).
We only want to control the default visibility for our five main
installable libraries: libglib, libgthread, libgmodule, libgobject,
libgio. We should therefore only set -fvisibility=hidden when building
those.
Use a separate substitution variable for this purpose.
Using CFLAGS directly leads to some modules built in testcases not
exporting their symbols (and then the tests fail). It also affects the
fam file monitoring module.
Colin had originally done it this way in his visibility patch series but
I failed to understand why so I didn't copy it. Now I do.
Also: revert changes made to two testcases in an attempt to work around
this issue.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=691756
With visibility now under the control of __declspec(dllexport) we no
longer need to build .def files or use them for building our various
.dll files.
.def files used to be installed (even though it is only really useful
when creating the .dll or .lib file). Don't do that anymore either.
The Makefiles still contain rules to create a .lib file for use with
Visual Studio and these rules require .def files. There are special
requirements to using these rules (like having installed and setup
Microsoft tools for use during the build) and therefore the problem of
creating a .def file for use with them is left open to anyone willing to
make the effort. Many options are available depending on which
toolchain is in use (dlltool, pexport, gendef, dumpbin.exe, just to name
a few).
If we can find a free tool for creating .lib files in the future, we
should probably revisit this issue and add proper support back to our
build system.
The previous fix didn't work, because every place within glib that
used any of the functions also needed to be including win32compat.h.
So, move the prototypes back to their original headers (but at least
all in one place at the bottom).
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688109
To avoid -Wmissing-prototype warnings, we need to prototype both the
original and the _utf8 versions of all of the functions that have had
_utf8-renaming on Windows. But duplicating all the prototypes is ugly,
so rather than doing them "in-place", move them all to a new header
file just for that.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688109
Running with automake-1.11.1, a couple fixes are needed
for CLEANFILES when gtk-doc is not installed.
(Found with Amazon Linux AMI release 2012.03)
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=682067
Commit f084b60377 incorrectly set
DIST_SUBDIRS for the toplevel Makefile.am. In general actually we
don't need to set it, because modern automake automatically sets
it by looking at conditionals for SUBDIRS.
Tested-by: Rico Tzschichholz <ricotz@t-online.de>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=667806
This patch solves two problems:
First, it allows builders to optionally cut the circular dependency
between dbus and glib by disabling the modular tests (just like how
the tests can be disabled in dbus).
Second, the tests are entirely pointless to build if cross-compiling.
It also moves us slightly closer to the long term future we want where
the tests are a separate ./configure invocation and run against the
INSTALLED glib, not the one in the source tree. This would allow us to
run the tests constantly, not just when glib is built.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=667806
When building with MinGW/MSYS with srcdir != builddir the build fails:
- to locate the generated .def files
- creating libglib-gdb.py
- creating libgobject-gdb.py
Solved this by explicitly instructing these files to be generated
in $(builddir)/...
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=653167
There are cases when it should be possible to define at compile time
what range of functions and types should be used, in order to get,
or restrict, the compiler warnings for deprecated or newly added
types or functions.
For instance, if GLib introduces a deprecation warning on a type in
version 2.32, application code can decide to specify the minimum and
maximum boundary of the used API to be 2.30; when compiling against
a new version of GLib, this would produce the following results:
- all deprecations introduced prior to 2.32 would emit compiler
warnings when used by the application code;
- all deprecations introduced in 2.32 would not emit compiler
warnings when used by the application code;
- all new symbols introduced in 2.32 would emit a compiler warning.
Using this scheme it should be possible to have fairly complex
situations, like the following one:
assuming that an application is compiled with:
GLIB_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED = GLIB_VERSION_2_30
GLIB_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED = GLIB_VERSION_2_32
and a GLib header containing:
void function_A (void) GLIB_DEPRECATED_IN_2_26;
void function_B (void) GLIB_DEPRECATED_IN_2_28;
void function_C (void) GLIB_DEPRECATED_IN_2_30;
void function_D (void) GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_2_32;
void function_E (void) GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_2_34;
any application code using the above functions will get the following
compiler warnings:
function_A: deprecated symbol warning
function_B: deprecated symbol warning
function_C: no warning
function_D: no warning
function_E: undefined symbol warning
This means that it should be possible to gradually port code towards
non-deprecated API gradually, on a per-release basis.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=670542
This should help getting static builds working on mingw.
Based on a patch by Volker Grabsch, bug 619126.
At the same time, drop the unnecessary GLIB_RT_LIBS variable;
we are already adding -lrt to G_THREAD_LIBS.
* Represents an immutable reference counted block of memory.
* This is basically the internal glib GBuffer structure exposed,
renamed, and with some additional capabilities.
* The GBytes name comes from python3's immutable 'bytes' type
* GBytes can be safely used as keys in hash tables, and have
functions for doing so: g_bytes_hash, g_bytes_equal
* GByteArray is a mutable form of GBytes, and vice versa. There
are functions for converting from one to the other efficiently:
g_bytes_unref_to_array() and g_byte_array_free_to_bytes()
* Adds g_byte_array_new_take() to support above functions
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=663291
This was used as an optimisation for the macro hackery that used to live
in gthread.h. If a particular library or program knew that it could
rely on thread support being enabled, it would allow for static
evaluation of conditionals in some of those macros.
Since the macros are dead and thread support is now always-on, we can
get rid of this bit of legacy.
