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2020-06-30Core Xorg libraries necessary for Ghostscript now includedMohammad Akhlaghi-2/+1
Until now, in order to build Ghostscript, the project used the host's Xorg libraries. This was because we hadn't yet added the necessary build rules for them. With this commit, the instructions to build the necessary Xorg libraries for Ghostscript have also been added. Also, the shared Ghostscript library has been built with this commit and two sets of standard fonts are also included, setting us on the path to build TeXLive from source later. This task was done with the help and support of Raul Infante-Sainz.
2020-06-27IMPORTANT: many improvements to low-level software building phaseMohammad Akhlaghi-727/+729
POSSIBLE EFFECT ON YOUR PROJECT: The changes in this commit may only cause conflicts to your project if you have changed the software building Makefiles in your project's branch (e.g., 'basic.mk', 'high-level.mk' and 'python.mk'). If your project has only added analysis, it shouldn't be affected. This is a large commit, involving a long series of corrections in a differnt branch which is now finally being merged into the core Maneage branch. All changes were related and came up naturally as the low-level infrastructure was improved. So separating them in the end for the final merge would have been very time consuming and we are merging them as one commit. In general, the software building Makefiles are now much more easier to read, modify and use, along with several new features that have been added. See below for the full list. - Until now, Maneage needed the host to have a 'make' implementation because Make was necessary to build Lzip. Lzip is then used to uncompress the source of our own GNU Make. However, in the minimalist/slim versions of operating systems (for example used to build Docker images) Make isn't included by default. Since Lzip was the only program before our own GNU Make was installed, we consulting Antonio Diaz Diaz (creator of Lzip) and he kindly added the necessary functionality to a new version of Lzip, which we are using now. Hence we don't need to assume a Make implementation on the host any more. With this commit, Lzip and GNU Make are built without Make, allowing everything else to be safely built with our own custom version of GNU Make and not using the host's 'make' at all. - Until recently (Commit 3d8aa5953c4) GNU Make was built in 'basic.mk'. Therefore 'basic.mk' was written in a way that it can be used with other 'make' implementations also (i.e., important shell commands starting with '&&' and ending in '\' without any comments between them!). Furthermore, to help in style uniformity, the rules in 'high-level.mk' and 'python.mk' also followed a similar structure. But due to the point above, we can now guarantee that GNU Make is used from the very first Makefile, so this hard-to-read structure has been removed in the software build recipes and they are much more readable and edit-friendly now. - Until now, the default backup servers where at some fixed URLs, on our own pages or on Gitlab. But recently we uploaded all the necessary software to Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3883409) which is more suitable for this task (it promises longevity, has a fixed DOI, while allowing us to add new content, or new software tarball versions). With this commit, a small script has been written to extract the most recent Zenodo upload link from the Zenodo DOI and use it for downloading the software source codes. - Until now, we primarily used the webpage of each software for downloading its tarball. But this caused many problems: 1) Some of them needed Javascript before the download, 2) Some URLs had a complex dependency on the version number, 3) some servers would be randomly down for maintenance and etc. So thanks to the point above, we now use the Zenodo server as the primary download location. However, if a user wants to use a custom software that is not (yet!) in Zenodo, the download script gives priority to a custom URL that the users can give as Make variables. If that variable is defined, then the script will use that URL before going onto Zenodo. We now have a special place for such URLs: 'reproduce/software/config/urls.conf'. The old URLs (which are a good documentation themselves) are preserved here, but are commented by default. - The software source code downloading and checksum verification step has been moved into a Make function called 'import-source' (defined in the 'build-rules.mk' and loaded in all software Makefiles). Having taken all the low-level steps there, I noticed that there is no more need for having the tarball as a separate target! So with this commit, a single rule is the only place that needs to be edited/added (greatly simplifying the software building Makefiles). - Following task #15272, A new option has been added to the './project' script called '--all-highlevel'. When this option is given, the contents of 'TARGETS.conf' are ignored and all the software in Maneage are built (selected by parsing the 'versions.conf' file). This new option was added to confirm the extensive changes made in all the software building recipes and is great for development/testing purposes. - Many of the software hadn't been tested for a long time! So after using the newly added '--all-highlevel', we noticed that some need to be updated. In general, with this commit, 'libpaper' and 'pcre' were added as new software, and the versions of the following software was updated: 'boost', 'flex', 'libtirpc', 'openblas' and 'lzip'. A 'run-parts.in' shell script was added in 'reproduce/software/shell/' which is installed with 'libpaper'. - Even though we intentionally add the necessary flags to add RPATH inside the built executable at compilation time, some software don't do it (different software on different operating systems!). Until now, for historical reasons this check was done in different ways for different software on GNU/Linux sytems. But now it is unified: if 'patchelf' is present we apply it. Because of this, 'patchelf' has been put as a top-level prerequisite, right after Tar and is installed before anything else. - In 'versions.conf', GNU Libtool is recognized as 'libtool', but in 'basic.mk', it was 'glibtool'! This caused many confusions and is corrected with this commit (in 'basic.mk', it is also 'libtool'). - A new argument is added to the './project' script to allow easy loading of the project's shell and environment for fast/temporary testing of things in the same environment as the project. Before activating the project's shell, we completely remove all host environment variables to simulate the project's environment. It can be called with this command: './project shell'. A simple prompt has also been added to highlight that the user is using the Maneage shell!
2020-06-18Fixed small bug that was introduced four commits agoRaul Infante-Sainz-4/+4
In Commit 105467fe6402 (Software tarballs are downloaded even if not built), we introduced tests to download the tarballs of software even if they don't need to be built on the respective host. However some small typos in the checks existed that could cause a crash on macOS. In particular in the building of PatchELF and libbsd we had forgot to add the necessary 'x' before the 'yes' in the conditional to check if a we are on macOS or not. With this commit these two checks have been corrected. Also, in the building of 'isl' and 'mpc', we now check for 'host_cc' (signifying that the user wants to use their host C compiler for the high-level step) instead of 'on_mac_os'. The reason is that even on non-macOS systems, a user may not want to build the C compiler from scratch and use the '--host-cc' option. In such cases, they don't need to compile 'isl' and 'mpc'.
2020-06-17Software tarballs are downloaded even if not builtMohammad Akhlaghi-50/+36
Some low-level software aren't necessary on some operating systems, for example GCC can't be built on macOS, hence we don't build it and the GCC-only dependencies. Also, on GNU/Linux systems users could configure with '--host-cc' to avoid all the time it takes to build GCC when doing a fast test. Until now, in such cases not only was the software not installed, but the tarballs of the software were also not downloaded. Hence making the output of '--dist-software' incomplete (as in bug #58561). With this commit, we now import all the necessary tarballs, when the software isn't necessary for the particular system, it won't be built or cited, but its tarball will be present anyway, thus allowing the output of '--dist-software' to be complete.
2020-06-15OpenSSL now built after PerlMohammad Akhlaghi-1/+1
After trying a clean build of Maneage in a Docker image (with a minimal debian:stable-20200607-slim OS), I noticed that the building of OpenSSL is failing because it doesn't find the proper Perl functionality. To fix it, with this commit, Perl is set as a prerequisite of OpenSSL and this fixed the problem.
2020-06-02Core software build before using Make to build other softwareMohammad Akhlaghi-228/+238
Until now, Maneage would only build Flock before building everything else using Make (calling 'basic.mk') in parallel. Flock was necessary to avoid parallel downloads during the building of software (which could cause network problems). But after recently trying Maneage on FreeBSD (which is not yet complete, see bug #58465), we noticed that the BSD implemenation of Make couldn't parse 'basic.mk' (in particular, complaining with the 'ifeq' parts) and its shell also had some peculiarities. It was thus decided to also install our own minimalist shell, Make and compressor program before calling 'basic.mk'. In this way, 'basic.mk' can now assume the same GNU Make features that high-level.mk and python.mk assume. The pre-make building of software is now organized in 'reproduce/software/shell/pre-make-build.sh'. Another nice feature of this commit is for macOS users: until now the default macOS Make had problems for parallel building of software, so 'basic.mk' was built in one thread. But now that we can build the core tools with GNU Make on macOS too, it uses all threads. Furthermore, since we now run 'basic.mk' with GNU Make, we can use '.ONESHELL' and don't have to finish every line of a long rule with a backslash to keep variables and such. Generally, the pre-make software are now organized like this: first we build Lzip before anything else: it is downloaded as a simple '.tar' file that is not compressed (only ~400kb). Once Lzip is built, the pre-make phase continues with building GNU Make, Dash (a minimalist shell) and Flock. All of their tarballs are in '.tar.lz'. Maneage then enters 'basic.mk' and the first program it builds is GNU Gzip (itself packaged as '.tar.lz'). Once Gzip is built, we build all the other compression software (all downloaded as '.tar.gz'). Afterwards, any compression standard for other software is fine because we have it. In the process, a bug related to using backup servers was found in 'reproduce/analysis/bash/download-multi-try' for calling outside of 'basic.mk' and removed Bash-specific features. As a result of that bug-fix, because we now have multiple servers for software tarballs, the backup servers now have their own configuration file in 'reproduce/software/config/servers-backup.conf'. This makes it much easier to maintain the backup server list across the multiple places that we need it. Some other minor fixes: - In building Bzip2, we need to specify 'CC' so it doesn't use 'gcc'. - In building Zip, the 'generic_gcc' Make option caused a crash on FreeBSD (which doesn't have GCC). - We are now using 'uname -s' to specify if we are on a Linux kernel or not, if not, we are still using the old 'on_mac_os' variable. - While I was trying to build on FreeBSD, I noticed some further corrections that could help. For example the 'makelink' Make-function now takes a third argument which can be a different name compared to the actual program (used for examle to make a link to '/usr/bin/cc' from 'gcc'. - Until now we didn't know if the host's Make implementation supports placing a '@' at the start of the recipe (to avoid printing the actual commands to standard output). Especially in the tarball download phase, there are many lines that are printed for each download which was really annoying. We already used '@' in 'high-level.mk' and 'python.mk' before, but now that we also know that 'basic.mk' is called with our custom GNU Make, we can use it at the start for a cleaner stdout. - Until now, WCSLIB assumed a Fortran compiler, but when the user is on a system where we can't install GCC (or has activated the '--host-cc' option), it may not be present and the project shouldn't break because of this. So with this commit, when a Fortran compiler isn't present, WCSLIB will be built with the '--disable-fortran' configuration option. This commit (task #15667) was completed with help/checks by Raul Infante-Sainz and Boud Roukema.
2020-05-25Unified reference to GNU/Linux and free softwareMohammad Akhlaghi-2/+2
One of the main reasons to building Maneage is to properly acknowledge/attribute the authors of software in research. So we have adopted a standard of never referring to the GNU-based operating systems running the Linux kernel simply as "Linux", we avoid terms like "Open Sourse" and use Free Software instead (in the same spirit). With this commit, a few instances of the cases above have been corrected, they had slipped through our fingers when we initially imported them into the project. In the special case of the "Journal for Open Source Software", we simply replaced it with its abbreviation (JOSS). This was done because in effect we were generally using journal name abbreviations in almost all the citations already. To avoid any inconsistancies, the names of the three other journals that weren't abbreviated are also abbreviated.
2020-05-23New software: Valgrind and PatchBoud Roukema-0/+1
With this commit, Maneage now includes instructions to build the memory tracing tool Valgrind and the program 'patch' (to apply corrections/patches in text files and in particular the sources of programs). For this version of Valgrind, some patches were necessary for an interface with OpenMPI 2.x (which is the case now). Also note that this version of Valgrind's checks can fail with GCC 10.1.x (when using '--host-cc'), and the failures aren't due to internal problems but due to how the tests are designed (https://bugs.gentoo.org/707598). So currently if any of Valgrind's checks fail, Maneage still assumes that Valgrind was built and installed successfully. While testing on macOS, we noticed that it needs the macOS-specific 'mig' program which we can't build in Maneage. DESCRIPTION: The mig command invokes the Mach Interface Generator to generate Remote Procedure Call (RPC) code for client-server style Mach IPC from specification files. So a symbolic link to the system's 'mig' is now added to the project's programs on macOS systems. This commit's build of Patch and Valgrind has been tested on two GNU/Linux distributions (Debian and ArchLinux) as well as macOS. Work on this commit started by Boud Roukema, but also involved tests and corrections by Mohammad Akhlaghi and Raul Infante-Sainz.
2020-05-22Corrected copyright notices to fit GPL suggested formatMohammad Akhlaghi-8/+11
In time, some of the copyright license description had been mistakenly shortened to two paragraphs instead of the original three that is recommended in the GPL. With this commit, they are corrected to be exactly in the same three paragraph format suggested by GPL. The following files also didn't have a copyright notice, so one was added for them: reproduce/software/make/README.md reproduce/software/bibtex/healpix.tex reproduce/analysis/config/delete-me-num.conf reproduce/analysis/config/verify-outputs.conf
2020-05-08GNU Gettext built as a dependency of BashRaul Infante-Sainz-40/+58
Until now Maneage used the host's GNU Gettext if it was present. Gettext is a relatively low-level software that enables programs to print messages in different languages based on the host environment. Even though it has not direct effect on the running of the software for Maneage and the lanugage environment in Maneage is pre-determined, it is necessary to have it because if the basic programs see it in the host they will link with it and will have problems if/when the host's Gettext is updated. With this commit (which is actually a squashed rebase of 9 commits by Raul and Mohammad), Gettext and its two extra dependencies (libxml2 and libunistring) are now installed within Maneage as a basic software and built before GNU Bash. As a result, all programs built afterwards will successfully link with our own internal version of Gettext and libraries. To get this working, some of the basic software dependencies had to updated and re-ordered and it has been tested in both GNU/Linux and macoS. Some other minor issues that are fixed with this commit - Until this commit, when TeX was not installed, the warning message saying how to run the configure step in order to re-configure the project was not showing the option `-e'. However, the use of this option is more convenient than entering the top-build directory and etc every time. So with this commit, the warning message has been changed in order use the option `-e' in the re-configure of the project. - Until now, on macOS systems, Bash was not linking with our internally built `libncurses'. With this commit, this has been fixed by setting `--withcurses=yes' for Bash's configure script.
2020-05-06Software are rebuilt automatically with change of versionMohammad Akhlaghi-93/+96
Until now, when you changed the version of a software in an already-built system, its tarball would be downloaded, but it wouldn't actually build. The only way would be to force the build by deleting the main target of that file (under `.local/version-info/TYPE/PROGRAM'). This was because the tarballs were an order-only prerequisite which was implemented some time ago based on some theoretical argument that if the tarball dates changes, the software should not be rebuilt (because we check the checksum). However, the problems this causes are more than those it solves: Users may forget to delete the main target of the program and mistakenly think that they are using the new version. The fact that all the numbers going into the paper also contain this number further hides this. With this commit, tarballs are no longer order-only and any time a version of a software is updated, it will be automatically built and not cause confusion and manual intervention by the users. As a result of this change, I also had to correct the way we find the tarball from the list of prerequisites.
2020-05-01Fixed OpenSSL deprecation bug on some OSs, causing problems in libgit2Boud Roukema-0/+11
Until this commit, the configure step would fail with an error when compiling libgit2 on a test system. The origin of this bug, on the OS that was tested, appears to be that in OpenSSL Version 1.1.1a, openssl/ec.h fails to include openssl/openconf.h. The bug is described in more detail at https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?58263 With this commit, this is fixed by manually inserting a necessary components. In particular, `sed` is used to insert a preprocessor instruction into `openssl/openconf.h`, defining `DEPRECATED_1_2_0(f)`, for an arbitrary section of code `f`, to include that code rather than exclude it or warn about it. This commit is valid provided that openssl remains at a version earlier than 1.2.0. Starting at version 1.2.0, deprecation warnings should be run normally. We have thus moved the version of OpenSSL in `versions.conf' to the section for programs that need to be manually checked for version updates with a note to remind the user when reaching that version. Other packages that use OpenSSL may benefit from this commit, not just libgit2.
2020-04-29Reactivated --host-cc config option to use host C compilerMohammad Akhlaghi-4/+23
Until now, if GCC couldn't be built for any reason, Maneage would crash and the user had no way forward. Since GCC is complicated, it may happen and is frustrating to wait until the bug is fixed. Also, while debugging Maneage, when we know GCC has no problem, because it takes so long, it discourages testing. With this commit, we have re-activated the `--host-cc' option. It was already defined in the options of `./project', but its affect was nullified by hard-coding it to zero in the configure script on GNU/Linux systems. So with this commit that has been removed and the user can use their own C compiler on a GNU/Linux operating system also. Furthermore, to inform the user about this option and its usefulness, when GCC fails to build, a clear warning message is printed, instructing the user to post the problem as a bug and telling them how to continue building the project with the `--host-cc' option.
2020-04-28Configration bug fixed: identify pkg-config from its tarball nameBoud Roukema-1/+1
Until Commit 3409a54 (from yesterday), pkg-config was found correctly in `reproduce/software/make/basic.mk` by searching for `pkg`. However, commit a21ea20 made an improvement in the regular expression for relating package names and download filenames, and the string `pkg-config` with the new regex no longer simplifies to `pkg`. The result of this was that the basic.mk could not find `pkg-config` in the list of packages, since it was still listed as `pkg`. This blocked downloading for a system without pkg-config preloaded. With this commit (of just a few bytes), the bug is fixed.
2020-04-27Configuration: improved version separation from tarball nameBoud Roukema-4/+8
Until now, the sed script for determining URL download rules in the three software building Makefiles (`basic.mk', `high-level.mk' and `python.mk') considered package names such as `fftw-3...` and `fftw2-2.1...` to be identical. As the example above shows, this would make it hard to include some software that may hav conflicting non-number names. With this commit, the SED script that is used to separate the version from the tarball name only matches numbers that are after a dash (`-'). Therefore considers `fftw-3...` and `fftw-2...` to be identical, but `fftw-3-...` and `fftw2-2.1...` to be different. As a result of this change, the `elif' check for some of the other programs like `m4', or `help2man' was also corrected in all three Makefiles. While doing this check on all the software, we noticed that `zlib-version' is being repeated two times in `version.conf' so it was removed. It caused no complications, because both were the same number, but could lead to bugs later.
2020-04-20Maneage instead of Template in README-hacking.md and copyright noticesMohammad Akhlaghi-11/+8
Until now, throughout Maneage we were using the old name of "Reproducible Paper Template". But we have finally decided to use Maneage, so to avoid confusion, the name has been corrected in `README-hacking.md' and also in the copyright notices. Note also that in `README-hacking.md', the main Maneage branch is now called `maneage', and the main Git remote has been changed to `https://gitlab.com/maneage/project' (this is a new GitLab Group that I have setup for all Maneage-related projects). In this repository there is only one `maneage' branch to avoid complications with the `master' branch of the projects using Maneage later.
2020-04-18Properly adding libiconv to the libraries that libstdc++ links withMohammad Akhlaghi-1/+4
Of the GCC dynamically linked libraries we need to manually add RPATH to all and for `libstdc++' we also need to tell it to link with `libiconv'. Until now, the conditional to check for libstdc++ was not working and thus libiconv wasn't been added to it. With this commit the conditional has been corrected and is now working. Also, to help in reading the logs, an echo statement was added after every call to PatchELF.
2020-04-17Replaced name of directory under akhlaghi.org as backup serverMohammad Akhlaghi-7/+7
Until now, when a the raw tarball of some software wasn't usable, I would put it under my own webpage, or `akhlaghi.org/reproduce-software'. That same address was also used as a backup server. However, now the project has a proper name: Maneage. So I changed the directory on my own server to `akhlaghi.org/maneage-software'. With this commit, this new address has replaced the old one. But to avoid crashes in projects that haven't yet merged with the main Maneage branch, the old `reproduce-software' still works (its actually a symbolic link to the new directory now).
2020-04-17Patchelf is now built dynamicallyMohammad Akhlaghi-11/+2
Until a few commits ago, PatchELF was built statically because it was used to patch `libstdc++' at the end of the GCC building phase, but PatchELF also depends on `libstdc++', so it would crash. However, recently when patching the GCC libraries, we don't directly apply Patchelf to the library, first we copy it to a temporary place, do the patching, then put it in its proper place. So the problem above won't happen any more. With this commit, I am thus removing the static flag from patchelf and letting it built dynamically all the time. The main problem was that some systems don't have a static C++ library, so PatchELF couldn't be built statically. Instead of adding more checks, we just fixed the core foundation of the problem.
2020-04-17IMPORTANT: software config directly under reproduce/software/configMohammad Akhlaghi-4/+6
Until now the software configuration parameters were defined under the `reproduce/software/config/installation/' directory. This was because the configuration parameters of analysis software (for example Gnuastro's configurations) were placed under there too. But this was terribly confusing, because the run-time options of programs falls under the "analysis" phase of the project. With this commit, the Gnuastro configuration files have been moved under the new `reproduce/analysis/config/gnuastro' directory and the software configuration files are directly under `reproduce/software/config'. A clean build was done with this change and it didn't crash, but it may cause crashes in derived projects, so after merging with Maneage, please re-configure your project to see if anything has been missed. Please let us know if there is a problem.
2020-04-05The build of M4 and XLSX I/O on macOS has been fixedRaul Infante-Sainz-2/+26
Until now, the M4 that was built on macOS had internal problems (as discussed in #1): it would simply print `Abort trap: 6' in the output and abort. After looking at the build of Homebrew, I noticed that they apply a patch (correct one line) to fix this problem. To be able to apply that patch on macOS systems, I had fully open up the build recipe of M4 and atleast on the testing system, it was built successfully. Also, after successfully building M4, and thus Autoconf and thus Minizip, we were able to build XLSX I/O on a macOS and found out that the internal library's full address wasn't being put in the libraries and executables. With this commit, we now use macOS's `install_name_tool' to correct the positions of the two `libxlsxio_*' libraries in all its executables. This commit was originally written by Mohammad Akhlaghi
2020-02-19Building of GCC now only done when /dev/shm has more than 10GB freeMohammad Akhlaghi-4/+21
Until now, like all software on GNU/Linux systems GCC would be built in RAM (to speed up the build slightly and also not put too much stress on the HDDs/SSDs). But some systems don't have enough RAM for building GCC and will complain and crash. With this commit, we have added a check on the amount of free space in the `build_tmp' directory (which will be `/dev/shm' on GNU/Linux systems). If the amount of free space isn't more than 10GB, then GCC won't be built there and a temporary directory will be built under the `$(BDIR)/software' directory for it. This bug was found by Zahra Sharbaf. This fixes bug #57853.
2020-02-13Corrected version of Texinfo when reportingMohammad Akhlaghi-1/+1
Until now we were mistakenly reporting the version of SED instead of Texinfo. With this commit, we corrected it! This was reported by Raul Infante Sainz.
2020-02-13Adding a link to the *crt*.o files in the local install directoryMohammad Akhlaghi-1/+16
Until now, we defined `LIBRARY_PATH' to fix the problem of the `ld' linker of Binutils needing several `*crt*.o' files to run. However, some software (for example ImageMagick) over-write `LIBRARY_PATH', therefore there is no other way than to put a link to these necessary files in our local build directory. With this commit, we fixed the problem by putting a link to the system's relevant files in the local library directory. This fixed the problem with ImageMagick. Later, when we build the GNU C Library in the project, we should remove this step. This bug reported by Raul Castellanos Sanchez.
2020-02-11Using backup server when original download server failsMohammad Akhlaghi-4/+12
Until now, the main download script could only check one server for the given URL. However, ultimately the actual server that a file is downloaded from is irrelevant for this project: we actually check its checksum. Especially in the case of software (which are distributed over many servers), this can usually be very annoying: the servers may not properly communicate with the running system and even the 10 trials won't be enough. With this commit, the download script `reproduce/analysis/bash/download-multi-try' can take a new optional argument (a 5th argument). It assumes this argument is a space-separated list of server(s) to use as backup for the original URL. When downloading from the original URL fails, it will look into this list and try downloading the same file from each given server.
2020-02-01IMPORTANT: reproduce/software/bash renamed to reproduce/software/shellMohammad Akhlaghi-3/+3
Until now the shell scripts in the software building phase were in the `reproduce/software/bash' directory. But given our recent change to a POSIX-only start, the `configure.sh' shell script (which is the main component of this directory) is no longer written with Bash. With this commit, to fix that problem, that directory's name has been changed to `reproduce/software/shell'.
2020-01-27Initial scripts compatible with Dash (minimalistic POSIX)Mohammad Akhlaghi-1/+1
Until now, the initial project scripts were primarily tested with GNU Bash. But Bash is not generally available on all systems (it has many features beyond POSIX). Because of this, effectively we were imposing the requirement on the user that they must have Bash installed. We recently started this with setting the shebang of `project' and `reproduce/software/bash/configure.sh' to `/bin/sh'. After doing so, Raul and Gaspar reported an error on their systems. To fix the problem, I installed Dash (a minimalist POSIX-compliant shell) on my computer and temporarily set the shebangs to `/bin/dash', ran the project configuration step and fixed all issues that came up. With this commit, it can go all the way to building GCC on my system's Dash. After this stage (when `high-level.mk' is called), there is no problem, because we have our own version of GNU Bash and that installed version is used. Probably some more issues still remain and will hopefully be found in the future. While doing this, I also noticed the following two minor issues: - The `./project configure' option `--input-dir' was not recognized because it was mistakenly checking `--inputdir'. It has been corrected. - The test C programs now use the `<<EOF' method instead of `echo'. - In `basic.mk', the extra space between `syspath' and `:=' was removed (it was an ancient relic!).
2020-01-22Perl is now a dependency of Coreutils, LD_LIBRARY_PATH in basic.mkMohammad Akhlaghi-66/+79
Until now Perl was built after Coreutils, but I recently noticed that Coreutils actually uses Perl while creating its manpages. So it is now built before Coreutils. Also, while testing on an Amazon AWS EC2 server, we noticed that Coreutils can't build its man page for `md5sum'. The problem was found to be due to the fact that until now, we weren't actually setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH to our installed library path in `basic.mk'. Therefore, it would crash because the server had an older version of OpenSSL than the one that the template's Coreutils was built with. In the meantime (while addressing the issues above, because we only had one thread on the AWS server) I also noticed a few programs that were using a summarize compilation command (that just prints `CC xxx.c' instead of the whole command) so I fixed them by adding `V=1'. This bug was found by Idafen Santana Pérez.
2020-01-20IMPORTANT!!! Configuration Makefiles now have a .conf suffixMohammad Akhlaghi-3/+3
Until now, the configuration Makefiles (in `reproduce/software/config/installation' and `reproduce/analysis/config') had a `.mk' suffix, similar to the workhorse Makefiles. Although they are indeed Makefiles, but given their nature (to only keep configuration parameters), it is confusing (especially to early users) for them to also have a `.mk' (similar to the analysis or software building Makefiles). To address this issue, with this commit, all the configuration Makefiles (in those directories) are now given a `.conf' suffix. This is also assumed for all the files that are loaded. The configuration (software building) and running of the template have been checked with this change from scratch, but please report any error that may not have been noticed. THIS IS AN IMPORTANT CHANGE AND WILL CAUSE CRASHES OR UNEXPECTED BEHAVIORS FOR PROJECTS THAT HAVE BRANCHED FROM THIS TEMPLATE. PLEASE CORRECT THE SUFFIX OF ALL YOUR PROJECT'S CONFIGURATION MAKEFILES (IN THE DIRECTORIES ABOVE), OTHERWISE THEY AREN'T AUTOMATICALLY LOADED ANYMORE.
2020-01-19GNU Make updated to version 4.3Mohammad Akhlaghi-1/+1
GNU Make 4.3 was just announced, so I have updated it here is well. This was important because until now the installable version was in alpha-mode (4.2.90), now its a stable version.
2020-01-19LIBRARY_PATH is set accordingly based on the hostMohammad Akhlaghi-4/+11
Until now, GCC wouldn't build properly on Debian-based operating systems because `ld' needed to link with several necessary C library features like `crti.o' and `crtn.o' (this is an `ld' issue, not GCC). The solution is to add the directory containing them to `LIBRARY_PATH'. In the previous commit, I actually searched for these files, but while testing on another system, I noticed that it can be problematic (other architectures may exist). With this commit, we are actually finding the build architecture of the running GCC (which is the same as the `ld') and using that to fix a fixed directory to `LIBRARY_PATH'.
2020-01-01Copyright statements updated to include 2020Mohammad Akhlaghi-2/+2
Now that its 2020, its necessary to include this year in the copyright statements.
2019-12-04Perl built without -shared on macOSMohammad Akhlaghi-1/+11
Until now, while building Perl, the `-Dlddlflags="-shared $$LDFLAGS"' option was being used for all systems. However, this caused `symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64' problems on macOS systems. With this commit, this configure option is only passed for GNU/Linux systems. With it, Perl can be built nicely on both GNU/Linux and macOS.
2019-11-08Matplotlib problem on macOS system with GNU GCC fixedMohammad Akhlaghi-2/+2
Until now when building Matplotlib on macOS systems, we were using the default C compiler. However, while Yahya Sefidbakht (previously) and Mahdieh Nabavi (now) were trying to build the template, on their macOS using the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), we found that Matplotlib needs special macOS headers that GCC doesn't recognize. With this commit, when Matplotlib is being built on macOS systems, it uses `clang' and this fixed the problem (so far checked on Mahdieh's machine).
2019-11-08Minor corrections applied in software buildsMohammad Akhlaghi-2/+7
While working on a different branch to build the GNU C Library, I noticed a few places in the template that need corrections which are now applied: 1. A new-line character after the "C compiler works" notice at the start of the configure script. 2. Removing possible `::' in the `LD_LIBRARY_PATH' definition of `basic.mk'. Note that its not necessary in the other steps because we don't use any outside-defined `LD_LIBRARY_PATH'. 3. Building GMP for C++ and also with `--enable-fat'. 4. Removing the unpacked Perl tarball directory after its installation.
2019-11-06Perl is now built as a basic dependency of the templateMohammad Akhlaghi-4/+50
Perl is necessary to build Texinfo and later to build LaTeX. Until now we were just using the host operating system's installation of Perl, but in some instances that Perl can be too old and not suppor the features necessary. With this commit, Perl is now built from source during the basic installation step of the template. This was reported by Idafen Santana Pérez, after trying the pipeline on an Amazon AWS EC2 system (a Linux distro by Amazon for its cloud services).
2019-10-30Tarballs set as order-only prerequisites, not needed for build callsMohammad Akhlaghi-134/+136
Until now, the tarballs were the first normal prerequisite of the software. As a result if their date changed, the whole software would be re-built. However, for tarballs specifically, we actually check their contents with a checksum, so their date is irrelevant (if its newer than the built program, but has the same checksum, there is no need to re-build the software). Also, calling the tarball name as an argument to the building process (for example `gbuild') was redundant. It is now automatically found from the list of order-only prerequisites within `gbuild' and `cbuild' (similar to how it was previously found in the `pybuild' for Python building). A `README.md' file has also been placed in `reproduce/software/make' to help describe the shared properties of the software building Makefiles. This will hopefully grow much larger in the future.
2019-10-28HEALPix, Autoconf and Automake now in libraryMohammad Akhlaghi-0/+1
The tarball of HEALPix includes multiple languages and doesn't include the ready-to-run GNU Build System by default, we actually have to build the `./configure' script for the C/C++ libraries. So it was necessary to also include GNU Autoconf and GNU Automake as prerequisites of HEALPix. However, the official GNU Autoconf tarball (dating from 2012) doesn't build on modern systems, so I just cloned it from its source and bootstrapped it and built its modern tarball which we are using here.
2019-09-26Working project when downloaded from arXivMohammad Akhlaghi-12/+19
Until now, we were assuming that the users would just clone the project in Git. But after submitting arXiv:1909.11230, and trying to build directly from the arXiv source, I noticed several problems that wouldn't allow users to build it automatically. So I tried the build step by step and was able to find a fix for the several issues that came up. The scripting parts of the fix were primarily related to the fact that the unpacked arXiv tarball isn't under version control, so some checks had to be put there. Also, we wanted to make it easy to remove the extra files, so an extra `--clean-texdit' option was added to `./project'. Finally, some manual corrections were necessary (prior to running `./project', which are now described in `README.md'. Most of the later steps can be automated and we should do it later, I just don't have enough time now.
2019-09-06Updated versions of several softwareMohammad Akhlaghi-36/+35
New versions of astropy, bash, cmake, curl, findutils, gawk, gcc, ghostscript, git, make, gsl had recently come so they are updated with this commit. About GNU Findutils and GNU Make: I was bootstrapping (building the tarball of) these two separately separately because their standard tarball release had problems on some systems. Both have been updated now so I am no longer using my own webpage as their main URL. A special note about GNU Make. I just noticed that during bootstrapping, GNU Make would use the fixed version string of `4.2.90' for any commit!!! But fortunately they have officially released their 4.2.90 version, so we are safely using their own webpage. The only difference is the compression format. My old bootstrapped build was `tar.lz', but the standard release is `tar.gz'. Also, all the basic programs (installed in `.local/bin') in `basic.mk' are now existance-only dependencies (after a `|'). Because later programs just use them at a very basic level, so there is no need to rebuild everything when Bash gets updated for example.
2019-08-08Static PatchELF only built when static C library existsMohammad Akhlaghi-7/+10
Until now, when building PatchELF, we would always require that it be done statically. However, some systems don't have a static C library available for linking. This cause a crash in the static building of PatchELF. But a static PatchELF is necessary for correcting RPATH in GCC's outputs. With this commit, in the configure script we check if a static C library is linkable for the compiler. If it isn't then `host_cc' will be set to 1 and GCC won't be built. We also pass the result of this test to `basic.mk' (through `good_static_lib'), so if a static C library isn't available, it builds a dynamically linked PatchELF. This bug was reported by Elham Saremi.
2019-08-05Backup repository set to http://akhlaghi.org/reproduce-softwareMohammad Akhlaghi-11/+13
Some of the software tarballs are directly available on their webpage (for example due to build problems on systems, where we had to clone the software and build its tarball ourselves until the next release). Until now, only for these software, these tarballs were hosted on `http://akhlaghi.org/src'. But now, I have moved a clone of the software backup repository (including all its software) to `http://akhlaghi.org/reproduce-software'. To be more clear and have a single place for the backup software, the URL of those software has also been updated in the project source.
2019-08-01Typo in previous commit correctedMohammad Akhlaghi-1/+0
After making the previous commit, I noticed an extra line (redundantly defining a wrong `BASH_ENV') that should have been deleted. It has been corrected.
2019-08-01Bash startup script for every recipeMohammad Akhlaghi-0/+5
Until now the only way to define the environment of the Make recipes was through the exported Make variables (mostly in `initialize.mk' for the analysis steps for example). However, there is only so much you can do with environment variables! In some situations you want slightly more complicated environment control, like setting an alias or running of scripts (things that are commonly done in the `~/.bashrc' file of users to configure their interactive, non-login shells). With this commit, a `reproduce/software/bash/bashrc.sh' has been defined for this job (which is currently empty!). Every major Make step of the project adds this file as the `BASH_ENV' environment variable, so the shell that is created to execute a recipe first executes this file, then the recipe. Each top-level Makefile also defines a `PROJECT_STATUS' environment variable that enables users to limit their envirnoment setup based on the condition it is being setup (in particular in the early phase of `basic.mk', where the user can't make any assumption about the programs and has to write a portable shell script).
2019-07-31GCC: libstdc++ has a link to libiconvMohammad Akhlaghi-0/+1
After adding the libiconv library to the template, the C++ library uses three of its functions (`libiconv', `libiconv_open' and `libiconv_close'). However, it doesn't explicity link with it inside its shared library! I tried by exporting `LIBS=-liconv' before the GCC configure script but it crashed as soon as it went on to the second GCC building stage (because this environment variable was no longer present there). I also tried adding the C++ configure option of `--enable-cstdio' to the GCC configure options (so it doesn't use iconv according to the manual), but it made no change. With this commit, as a brute-force solution, `patchelf --add-needed' is run on the installed `libstdc++.so', so `libiconv.so' is explicitly included inside the `libstdc++' shared library. This bug was found by Roberto Baena Galle while trying to load Matplotlib (which needed the C++ library). This fixes bug #56702.
2019-07-29Checking software tarball checksums before building softwareMohammad Akhlaghi-60/+76
Until now, there was no check on the integrity of the contents of the downloaded/copied software tarballs, we only relied on the tarball name. This could be bad for reproducibility and security, for example on one server the name of a tarball may be the same but with different content. With this commit, the SHA512 checksums of all the software are stored in the newly created `checksums.mk' (similar to how the versions are stored in the `versions.mk'). The resulting variable is then defined for each software and after downloading/copying the file we check to see if the new tarball has the same checksum as the stored value. If it doesn't the script will crash with an error, informing the user of the problem. The only limitation now is a bootstrapping problem: if the host system doesn't already an `sha512sum' executable, we will not do any checksum verification until we install our `sha512sum' (as part of GNU Coreutils). All the tarballs downloaded after GNU Coreutils are built will have their checksums validated. By default almost all GNU/Linux systems will have a usable `sha512sum' (its part of GNU Coreutils after all for a long time: from the Coreutils Changelog file atleast since 2013). This completes task #15347.
2019-07-28Single wrapper instead of old ./configure, Makefile and ./for-groupMohammad Akhlaghi-3/+7
Until now, to work on a project, it was necessary to `./configure' it and build the software. Then we had to run `.local/bin/make' to run the project and do the analysis every time. If the project was a shared project between many users on a large server, it was necessary to call the `./for-group' script. This way of managing the project had a major problem: since the user directly called the lower-level `./configure' or `.local/bin/make' it was not possible to provide high-level control (for example limiting the environment variables). This was especially noticed recently with a bug that was related to environment variables (bug #56682). With this commit, this problem is solved using a single script called `project' in the top directory. To configure and build the project, users can now run these commands: $ ./project configure $ ./project make To work on the project with other users in a group these commands can be used: $ ./project configure --group=GROUPNAME $ ./project make --group=GROUPNAME The old options to both configure and make the project are still valid. Run `./project --help' to see a list. For example: $ ./project configure -e --host-cc $ ./project make -j8 The old `configure' script has been moved to `reproduce/software/bash/configure.sh' and is called by the new `./project' script. The `./project' script now just manages the options, then passes control to the `configure.sh' script. For the "make" step, it also reads the options, then calls Make. So in the lower-level nothing has changed. Only the `./project' script is now the single/direct user interface of the project. On a parallel note: as part of bug #56682, we also found out that on some macOS systems, the `DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH' environment variable has to be set to blank. This is no problem because RPATH is automatically set in macOS and the executables and libraries contain the absolute address of the libraries they should link with. But having `DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH' can conflict with some low-level system libraries and cause very hard to debug linking errors (like that reported in the bug report). This fixes bug #56682.
2019-07-27DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH also fixed for macOS systemsMohammad Akhlaghi-6/+7
Until now we were only setting the `LD_LIBRARY_PATH' environment variable for GNU/Linux systems. But macOS systems use the `DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH'. With this commit, for better control over the environment, we are also fixing `DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH' in all the places that we are setting the general environment variables.
2019-07-26PatchELF built statically and updatedMohammad Akhlaghi-1/+7
Until now, like all other software, PatchELF would install with dynamic linking. However, PatchELF links with `libstdc++' so on one system, I noticed that PatchELF gives a segmentation fault and corrupts `libstdc++' while correcting its RPATH (after installing GCC). The solution is to build PatchELF statically. With this commit, we force PatchELF to be built statically (it only installs on GNU/Linux systems anyway, so there is no problem with static linking on macOS). This solved the problem on that system. While looking at its documentation, I also noticed that a new version of PatchELF has been released after almost three years, so it has been updated in the template also. This fixes bug #56673.
2019-07-08Rpath in libstdc++ and passing host_cc to high-levelMohammad Akhlaghi-1/+1
Until this commit, the addion of `-liconv' to `CXXFLAGS' in `high-level.mk' dependend on `host_cc', but I had forgot that `host_cc' isn't defined for `high-level.mk'. It is now defined for this Makefile also in the configure script. Also, the Standard C++ library depends on `libgcc_s.so.1', so after building GCC, it was necessary to add Rpath to it.