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<updated>2024-01-31T22:43:00Z</updated>
<entry>
<title>Makefile: simplify output of the libpath_template</title>
<updated>2024-01-31T22:43:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Junio C Hamano</name>
<email>gitster@pobox.com</email>
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<published>2024-01-31T17:42:20Z</published>
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If a platform lacks the support to specify the dynamic library path,
there is no suitable value to give to the CC_LD_DYNPATH variable.
Allow them to be set to an empty string to signal that they do not
need to add the usual -Wl,-rpath, or -R or whatever option followed
by a directory name.  This way,

    $(call libpath_template,$(SOMELIBDIR))

would expand to just a single mention of that directory, i.e.

    -L$(SOMELIBDIR)

when CC_LD_DYNPATH is set to an empty string (or a "-L", which
would have repeated the same "-L$(SOMELIBDIR)" twice without any
ill effect).

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Makefile: reduce repetitive library paths</title>
<updated>2024-01-31T18:01:56Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Junio C Hamano</name>
<email>gitster@pobox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-31T17:42:19Z</published>
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When we take a library package we depend on (e.g., LIBPCRE) from a
directory other than the default location of the system, we add the
same directory twice on the linker command like, like so:

  EXTLIBS += -L$(LIBPCREDIR)/$(lib) $(CC_LD_DYNPATH)$(LIBPCREDIR)/$(lib)

Introduce a template "libpath_template" that takes the path to the
directory, which can be used like so:

  EXTLIBS += $(call libpath_template,$(LIBPCREDIR)/$(lib))

and expand it into the "-L$(DIR) $(CC_LD_DYNPATH)$(DIR)" form.
Hopefully we can reduce the chance of typoes this way.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'ab/gnumake-4.4-fix'</title>
<updated>2022-12-01T09:38:07Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Junio C Hamano</name>
<email>gitster@pobox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-01T09:38:07Z</published>
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Adjust our Makefiles for GNUmake 4.4

* ab/gnumake-4.4-fix:
  Makefiles: change search through $(MAKEFLAGS) for GNU make 4.4
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<entry>
<title>Makefiles: change search through $(MAKEFLAGS) for GNU make 4.4</title>
<updated>2022-11-30T22:24:12Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason</name>
<email>avarab@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-30T08:23:49Z</published>
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Since GNU make 4.4 the semantics of the $(MAKEFLAGS) variable has
changed in a backward-incompatible way, as its "NEWS" file notes:

  Previously only simple (one-letter) options were added to the MAKEFLAGS
  variable that was visible while parsing makefiles.  Now, all options are
  available in MAKEFLAGS.  If you want to check MAKEFLAGS for a one-letter
  option, expanding "$(firstword -$(MAKEFLAGS))" is a reliable way to return
  the set of one-letter options which can be examined via findstring, etc.

This upstream change meant that e.g.:

	make man

Would become very noisy, because in shared.mak we rely on extracting
"s" from the $(MAKEFLAGS), which now contains long options like
"--jobserver-auth=fifo:&lt;path&gt;", which we'll conflate with the "-s"
option.

So, let's change this idiom we've been carrying since [1], [2] and [3]
as the "NEWS" suggests.

Note that the "-" in "-$(MAKEFLAGS)" is critical here, as the variable
will always contain leading whitespace if there are no short options,
but long options are present. Without it e.g. "make --debug=all" would
yield "--debug=all" as the first word, but with it we'll get "-" as
intended. Then "-s" for "-s", "-Bs" for "-s -B" etc.

1. 0c3b4aac8ec (git-gui: Support of "make -s" in: do not output
   anything of the build itself, 2007-03-07)
2. b777434383b (Support of "make -s": do not output anything of the
   build itself, 2007-03-07)
3. bb2300976ba (Documentation/Makefile: make most operations "quiet",
   2009-03-27)

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason &lt;avarab@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Makefile: don't create a ".build/.build/" for cocci, fix output</title>
<updated>2022-11-11T22:21:45Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason</name>
<email>avarab@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-10T16:14:18Z</published>
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Fix a couple of issues in the recently merged 0f3c55d4c2b (Merge
branch 'ab/coccicheck-incremental' into next, 2022-11-08):

In copying over the "contrib/coccinelle/" rules to
".build/contrib/coccinelle/" we inadvertently ended up with a
".build/.build/contrib/coccinelle/" as well. We'd generate the
per-file patches in the former, and keep the rule and overall result
in the latter. E.g. running:

	make contrib/coccinelle/free.cocci.patch COCCI_SOURCES="attr.c grep.c"

Would, per "tree -a .build" yield the following result:

	.build
	├── .build
	│   └── contrib
	│       └── coccinelle
	│           └── free.cocci.patch
	│               ├── attr.c
	│               ├── attr.c.log
	│               ├── grep.c
	│               └── grep.c.log
	└── contrib
	    └── coccinelle
	        ├── FOUND_H_SOURCES
	        ├── free.cocci
	        └── free.cocci.patch

Now we'll instead generate all of our files in
".build/contrib/coccinelle/". Fixing this required renaming the
directory where we keep our per-file patches, as we'd otherwise
conflict with the result.

Now the per-file patch directory is named e.g. "free.cocci.d". And the
end result will now be:

	.build
	└── contrib
	    └── coccinelle
	        ├── FOUND_H_SOURCES
	        ├── free.cocci
	        ├── free.cocci.d
	        │   ├── attr.c.patch
	        │   ├── attr.c.patch.log
	        │   ├── grep.c.patch
	        │   └── grep.c.patch.log
	        └── free.cocci.patch

The per-file patches now have a ".patch" file suffix, which fixes
another issue reported against 0f3c55d4c2b: The summary output was
confusing. Before for the "make" command above we'd emit:

	[...]
	MKDIR -p .build/contrib/coccinelle
	CP contrib/coccinelle/free.cocci .build/contrib/coccinelle/free.cocci
	GEN .build/contrib/coccinelle/FOUND_H_SOURCES
	MKDIR -p .build/.build/contrib/coccinelle/free.cocci.patch
	SPATCH .build/.build/contrib/coccinelle/free.cocci.patch/grep.c
	SPATCH .build/.build/contrib/coccinelle/free.cocci.patch/attr.c
	SPATCH CAT $^ &gt;.build/contrib/coccinelle/free.cocci.patch
	CP .build/contrib/coccinelle/free.cocci.patch contrib/coccinelle/free.cocci.patch

But now we'll instead emit (identical output at the start omitted):

	[...]
	MKDIR -p .build/contrib/coccinelle/free.cocci.d
	SPATCH grep.c &gt;.build/contrib/coccinelle/free.cocci.d/grep.c.patch
	SPATCH attr.c &gt;.build/contrib/coccinelle/free.cocci.d/attr.c.patch
	SPATCH CAT .build/contrib/coccinelle/free.cocci.d/**.patch &gt;.build/contrib/coccinelle/free.cocci.patch
	CP .build/contrib/coccinelle/free.cocci.patch contrib/coccinelle/free.cocci.patch

I.e. we have an "SPATCH" line that makes it clear that we're running
against the "{attr,grep}.c" file. The "SPATCH CAT" is then altered to
correspond to it, showing that we're concatenating the
"free.cocci.d/**.patch" files into one generated "free.cocci.patch" at
the end.

Reported-by: SZEDER Gábor &lt;szeder.dev@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason &lt;avarab@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau &lt;me@ttaylorr.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Makefile: copy contrib/coccinelle/*.cocci to build/</title>
<updated>2022-11-03T01:22:16Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason</name>
<email>avarab@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-01T22:35:52Z</published>
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Change the "coccinelle" rule so that we first copy the *.cocci source
in e.g. "contrib/coccinelle/strbuf.cocci" to
".build/contrib/coccinelle/strbuf.cocci" before operating on it.

For now this serves as a rather pointless indirection, but prepares us
for the subsequent commit where we'll be able to inject generated
*.cocci files. Having the entire dependency tree live inside .build/*
simplifies both the globbing we'd need to do, and any "clean" rules.

It will also help for future targets which will want to act on the
generated patches or the logs, e.g. targets to alert if we can't parse
certain files (or, less so than usual) with "spatch", and e.g. a
replacement for "ci/run-static-analysis.sh". Such a replacement won't
care about placing the patches in the in-tree, only whether they're
"OK" (and about the diff).

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason &lt;avarab@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau &lt;me@ttaylorr.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>cocci: make "coccicheck" rule incremental</title>
<updated>2022-11-03T01:22:16Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason</name>
<email>avarab@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-01T22:35:50Z</published>
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Optimize the very slow "coccicheck" target to take advantage of
incremental rebuilding, and fix outstanding dependency problems with
the existing rule.

The rule is now faster both on the initial run as we can make better
use of GNU make's parallelism than the old ad-hoc combination of
make's parallelism combined with $(SPATCH_BATCH_SIZE) and/or the
"--jobs" argument to "spatch(1)".

It also makes us *much* faster when incrementally building, it's now
viable to "make coccicheck" as topic branches are merged down.

The rule didn't use FORCE (or its equivalents) before, so a:

	make coccicheck
	make coccicheck

Would report nothing to do on the second iteration. But all of our
patch output depended on all $(COCCI_SOURCES) files, therefore e.g.:

    make -W grep.c coccicheck

Would do a full re-run, i.e. a a change in a single file would force
us to do a full re-run.

The reason for this (not the initial rationale, but my analysis) is:

* Since we create a single "*.cocci.patch+" we don't know where to
  pick up where we left off, or how to incrementally merge e.g. a
  "grep.c" change with an existing *.cocci.patch.

* We've been carrying forward the dependency on the *.c files since
  63f0a758a06 (add coccicheck make target, 2016-09-15) the rule was
  initially added as a sort of poor man's dependency discovery.

  As we don't include other *.c files depending on other *.c files
  has always been broken, as could be trivially demonstrated
  e.g. with:

       make coccicheck
       make -W strbuf.h coccicheck

  However, depending on the corresponding *.c files has been doing
  something, namely that *if* an API change modified both *.c and *.h
  files we'd catch the change to the *.h we care about via the *.c
  being changed.

  For API changes that happened only via *.h files we'd do the wrong
  thing before this change, but e.g. for function additions (not
  "static inline" ones) catch the *.h change by proxy.

Now we'll instead:

 * Create a &lt;RULE&gt;/&lt;FILE&gt; pair in the .build directory, E.g. for
   swap.cocci and grep.c we'll create
   .build/contrib/coccinelle/swap.cocci.patch/grep.c.

   That file is the diff we'll apply for that &lt;RULE&gt;-&lt;FILE&gt;
   combination, if there's no changes to me made (the common case)
   it'll be an empty file.

 * Our generated *.patch
   file (e.g. contrib/coccinelle/swap.cocci.patch) is now a simple "cat
   $^" of all of all of the &lt;RULE&gt;/&lt;FILE&gt; files for a given &lt;RULE&gt;.

   In the case discussed above of "grep.c" being changed we'll do the
   full "cat" every time, so they resulting *.cocci.patch will always
   be correct and up-to-date, even if it's "incrementally updated".

   See 1cc0425a27c (Makefile: have "make pot" not "reset --hard",
   2022-05-26) for another recent rule that used that technique.

As before we'll:

 * End up generating a contrib/coccinelle/swap.cocci.patch, if we
   "fail" by creating a non-empty patch we'll still exit with a zero
   exit code.

   Arguably we should move to a more Makefile-native way of doing
   this, i.e. fail early, and if we want all of the "failed" changes
   we can use "make -k", but as the current
   "ci/run-static-analysis.sh" expects us to behave this way let's
   keep the existing behavior of exhaustively discovering all cocci
   changes, and only failing if spatch itself errors out.

Further implementation details &amp; notes:

 * Before this change running "make coccicheck" would by default end
   up pegging just one CPU at the very end for a while, usually as
   we'd finish whichever *.cocci rule was the most expensive.

   This could be mitigated by combining "make -jN" with
   SPATCH_BATCH_SIZE, see 960154b9c17 (coccicheck: optionally batch
   spatch invocations, 2019-05-06).

   There will be cases where getting rid of "SPATCH_BATCH_SIZE" makes
   things worse, but a from-scratch "make coccicheck" with the default
   of SPATCH_BATCH_SIZE=1 (and tweaking it doesn't make a difference)
   is faster (~3m36s v.s. ~3m56s) with this approach, as we can feed
   the CPU more work in a less staggered way.

 * Getting rid of "SPATCH_BATCH_SIZE" particularly helps in cases
   where the default of 1 yields parallelism under "make coccicheck",
   but then running e.g.:

       make -W contrib/coccinelle/swap.cocci coccicheck

   I.e. before that would use only one CPU core, until the user
   remembered to adjust "SPATCH_BATCH_SIZE" differently than the
   setting that makes sense when doing a non-incremental run of "make
   coccicheck".

 * Before the "make coccicheck" rule would have to clean
   "contrib/coccinelle/*.cocci.patch*", since we'd create "*+" and
   "*.log" files there. Now those are created in
   .build/contrib/coccinelle/, which is covered by the "cocciclean" rule
   already.

Outstanding issues &amp; future work:

 * We could get rid of "--all-includes" in favor of manually
   specifying a list of includes to give to "spatch(1)".

   As noted upthread of [1] a naïve removal of "--all-includes" will
   result in broken *.cocci patches, but if we know the exhaustive
   list of includes via COMPUTE_HEADER_DEPENDENCIES we don't need to
   re-scan for them, we could grab the headers to include from the
   .depend.d/&lt;file&gt;.o.d and supply them with the "--include" option to
   spatch(1).q

1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/87ft18tcog.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com/

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason &lt;avarab@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau &lt;me@ttaylorr.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Makefile + shared.mak: rename and indent $(QUIET_SPATCH_T)</title>
<updated>2022-11-03T01:22:15Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason</name>
<email>avarab@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-01T22:35:43Z</published>
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In f7ff6597a75 (cocci: add a "coccicheck-test" target and test *.cocci
rules, 2022-07-05) we abbreviated "_TEST" to "_T" to have it align
with the rest of the "="'s above it.

Subsequent commits will add more QUIET_SPATCH_* variables, so let's
stop abbreviating this, and indent it in preparation for adding more
of these variables.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason &lt;avarab@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau &lt;me@ttaylorr.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>cocci: add a "coccicheck-test" target and test *.cocci rules</title>
<updated>2022-07-06T19:24:43Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason</name>
<email>avarab@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-07-05T13:46:57Z</published>
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Add a "coccicheck-test" target to test our *.cocci rules, and as a
demonstration add tests for the rules added in 39ea59a2570 (remove
unnecessary NULL check before free(3), 2016-10-08) and
1b83d1251ed (coccinelle: add a rule to make "expression" code use
FREE_AND_NULL(), 2017-06-15).

I considered making use of the "spatch --test" option, and the choice
of a "tests" over a "t" directory is to make these tests compatible
with such a future change.

Unfortunately "spatch --test" doesn't return meaningful exit codes,
AFAICT you need to "grep" its output to see if the *.res is what you
expect. There's "--test-okfailed", but I didn't find a way to sensibly
integrate those (it relies on some in-between status files, but
doesn't help with the status codes).

Instead let's use a "--sp-file" pattern similar to the main
"coccicheck" rule, with the difference that we use and compare the
two *.res files with cmp(1).

The --very-quiet and --no-show-diff options ensure that we don't need
to pipe stdout and stderr somewhere. Unlike the "%.cocci.patch" rule
we're not using the diff.

The "cmp || git diff" is optimistically giving us better output on
failure, but even if we only have POSIX cmp and no system git
installed we'll still fail with the "cmp", just with an error message
that isn't as friendly. The "2&gt;/dev/null" is in case we don't have a
"git" installed.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason &lt;avarab@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Makefile: add "po-init" rule to initialize po/XX.po</title>
<updated>2022-05-26T17:32:57Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason</name>
<email>avarab@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-05-26T14:50:34Z</published>
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The core translation is the minimum set of work that must be done for a
new language translation.

There are over 5000 messages in the template message file "po/git.pot"
that need to be translated. It is not a piece of cake for such a huge
workload. So we used to define a small set of messages called "core
translation" that a new l10n contributor must complete before sending
pull request to the l10n coordinator.

By pulling in some parts of the git-po-helper[^1] logic, we add a new
rule to create this core translation message "po/git-core.pot":

    make po/git-core.pot

To help new l10n contributors to initialized their "po/XX.pot" from
"po/git-core.pot", we also add new rules "po-init":

    make po-init PO_FILE=po/XX.po

[^1]: https://github.com/git-l10n/git-po-helper/

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason &lt;avarab@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
</content>
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