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In the last update of Astropy to version 4.0 they removed some things
that the previous version of Astroquery needs. As a consequence, it is
also necessary to update the Astroquery version to be a ble to run with
the Astropy 4.0. With this commit, the update of Astroquery to it most
recent version (0.4) has been done.
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MissFITS is package for manipulating FITS files.
I added it as my first commit to the project for educational
purposes.
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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.
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XLSX I/O is a very simple and fast program and library for reading and
writing `.xls' and `.xlsx' files (mainly used by Microsoft Excel) to CSV
files. It has two separate executables that can be called for an Excel file
and will output a CSV plain text file that can then be used within the
pipeline with more standard tools.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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'.
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Until now, the project would first ask for the basic directories, then it
would start testing the compiler. But that was problematic because the
build directory can come from a previous setting (with `./project configure
-e'). Also, it could confuse users to first ask for details, then suddently
tell them that you don't have a working C library! We also need to store
the CPATH variable in the `LOCAL.conf' because in some cases, the compiler
won't work without it.
With this commit, the compiler checking has been moved at the start of the
configure script. Instead of putting the test program in the build
directory, we now make a temporary hidden directory in the source directory
and delete that directory as soon as the tests are done.
In the process, I also noticed that the copyright year of the two hidden
files weren't updated and corrected them.
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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!).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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'.
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Until now, when find the versions of the TeXLive packages, we would assume
that `cat-date' is always present (because some packages don't have a
version!). However, apparently an update has been made in the TeXLive
Manager (`tlmgr') and `cat-date' is no longer present! As a result, none of
the TeXLive packages were being printed.
With this commit, it now assumes that `revision' is always present for
every package, but it also attempts to read `cat-date' (for backwards
compatability). When `cat-version' isn't present, it will try printing
`revision' and if that is also not present, it will print the date.
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Until this commit, the checking of X11 installation done to ensure that
it is already available in the host system was crashing in macOS
systems. The reason is that the place of the X11 libraries use to be
`/opt/X11/lib' in macOS systems. With this commit, this issue has been
fixed by adding this directory to the LDFLAGS.
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Newer versions of Astropy package has been released. With this commit,
it has been updated. It has been increased from v3.2.1 to v4.0
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In markdown, to specify that part of the text should be shown as code we
need to put it between two `. But in `reproduce/software/make/README.md',
the code parts started with ` and finished in ' (like the file name above).
With this commit, this has been corrected and it will display properly on
web browsers.
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Now that its 2020, its necessary to include this year in the copyright
statements.
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Until this commit, the number `2' was missing in the checksum variable
name of that library. It was `libxml-checksum' but it should be
`libxml2-checksum'. With this commit, this issue has been fixed.
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An extra backslash in the prerequisites of Jeepney Python package was
causing a crash in the installation of that software. With this commit,
this problem has been fixed by removing the backslash.
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OpenMP takes a LONG TIME to build, so to keep things reproducible we are
explicitly disabling OpenMP, if a user needs OpenMP, its trivial to just
add it as a prerequisite of R. The problem is that in some scenarios (based
on other dependencies and when they were built in the build directory),
OpenMP may be present when R is being installed and in other it may not. We
don't want the result to be different between the two builds.
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With this commit, we now have the core R interpretter within the
template. We should later include instructions to install R packages
(possibly in a separate top-level Makefile like Python).
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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.
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Until now, Ghostscript was using some host system's X11 libraries during
its build (and later at run-time). We should ideally install all these
necessary libraries within the template (Task #15481). But right now we are
too busy.
As a temporary work-around we try building a small dummy program that links
with some of those libraries before attempting to built Ghostscript. If it
fails, then a notice is printed with the cause and explaining a temporary
solution is suggested: how to install those libraries on the system when
you have root access.
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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).
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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.
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These two packages are necessary to build the GNU C Library.
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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).
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When building the log4cxx tarball from its Git history, I noticed that
files with very long names are not packaged by tar (because by default
Automake uses the ancient v7 tar format that only supports file names less
than 99 characters).
So I build the tarball with the `tar-ustar' option to Automake (by
modifying the log4cxx source) and the resulting tarball was able to compile
and run successfully. This has been described above the rule to build
log4cxx and I also sent an email to their developing mailing list to inform
them of this problem. If they address it, I will remove the note on the
necessary corrections.
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Some minor corrections were made in the template:
- When making the distribution, `.swp' files (created by Vim) are also
removed.
- Autoconf is set as a prerequisite of Automake
I was also trying to add the Apache log4cxx, but its default 0.10.0 tarball
needs some patches, so I have just left it half done until someone actually
needs it and we apply the patch.
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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.
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Python's `lmfit' module and all its major dependencies (`asteval',
`corner', `emcee' and `uncertainties') have been included in the template.
While doing this I noticed that if the tarballs are the last prerequisite
of each software building rule, then when building in parallel, the
template will immediately start building packages as soon as the first one
is downloaded. Not like the current way that it will attempt to download
several, then start building. For now, this has been implemented in the
Python build rules for all the modules and we'll later do the same for the
other programs and libraries. This also motivated a simplification of the
`pybuild' function: it now internally looks into the prerequisites and
selects the tarball from the prerequisite that is in the tarballs
directory.
This isn't a problem for the build, but I just don't understand why Python
can't recognize the version of `emcee', Python reads the version of `emcee'
as `0.0.0'! But it doesn't cause any crash in the build, so for now its
fine.
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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.
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The following software are added with this commit: eigency, esutil, flake8,
future, galsim, lsstdesccoord, pybind11 and pyflakes.
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As part of an effort to bring in all the dependencies of the LSST Science
pipeline (which includes the last commit), these software are now available
in the template.
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With this commit these three software packages are now installable with
this template.
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Since ImageMagick can take long to build, we are now building it in
parallel. Also, the part where we replace an `_' with `\_' in the software
version at the end of the configure script was removed. It is more
clear/readable that the actual rule that includes such a name deals with
the underline (as is the case for `sip_tpv' which already dealt with it).
Finally, I noticed that the checks at the start of `top-prepare' were
missing new-lines. I had forgot that the Make single-shell variable isn't
activated in this stage yet.
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It was some time since these three software were not updated! With this
commit the template now uses the most recent stable release of these
packages.
Also, the hosting server for ImageMagick was moved to my own webpage
because unfortunately ImageMagick removes its tarballs from its own
version.
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Until now we were calling it `Sextractor', but the official way of writing
it is `SExtractor'. With this commit, this has been corrected.
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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.
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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.
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Until now, OpenMPI would complain about not having `ssh' or `rsh' as a
remote shell feature. However, such features should not be necessary in a
reproducible scenario and they also have major security issues.
With this commit, we are now using OpenMPI's `OMPI_MCA_plm_rsh_agent'
environment variable to disable any remote shell dependency for it (as
suggested by Boud). Therefore, any dependency for OpenSSH has been
removed. But I thought to keep the build instructions incase it may be
useful under some un-foreseen scenario. However, to discourage people from
building it, a notice was added ontop of the build instructions.
This bug was found, tested and solved thanks to Roberto Baena Gallé and
Boud Roukema.
This fixes bug #56724.
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Until now we have followed the convention of using space characters before
comment lines in recepies, not tabs. This has been corrected in one case.
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Until this commit, `fpack' and `funpack' were not installed by default
with the installation of CFITSIO. It is necessary to explicity do a
`make fpack' and `make funpack' to have them installed. With this
commit, these two programs have been added.
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Until this commit, the name of the variable for `beautifulsoup4'
checksum was wrong, and because of that, it was not able to install it.
With this commit, `beautifulsoup-checksum' has been replaced for
`beautifulsoup4-checksum' in the `reproduce/software/make/python.mk'
Makefile, and the problem has been fixed. This was not noticed
previously because this Python package is only installed when some high
level programs are requested to be installed.
With this commit the version of `imagemagick' program has been also
updated because the previous version is not available in the official
website anymore.
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When trying to install `libgit2' on my macOS system, it complains about
not finding `_iconv*' functions! But apparently `libgit2' has its own
implementation of `libiconv' that it uses if it can't find `libiconv' on
macOS. So, the solution to this problem was to add `-DUSE_ICONV=OFF' to
the configuration options of `libgit2'.
I reported this issue that now is fixed thanks to the help of Mohammad
Akhlaghi.
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Until now, we weren't explicitly telling libtiff to ignore JBIG-KIT. So on
some systems, it would try to link withit and would thus fail.
With this commit, we have disabled JBIG-KIT support for libtiff. I tried to
import it into the template, but it doesn't have use the standard GNU Build
system. Maybe later we can add a set of build rules for it, I don't have
time now.
Also, this problem with libtiff occurred while building Ghostscript. But
was fixed after adding this option to libtiff. So libtiff was added as a
dependency of Ghostscript.
This bug was reported by Sheeraz Ahmad.
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Until now we weren't setting OpenSSH's `privsep-path' configure option. As
a result, it would try to use its default (`/var/empty'). Therefore, when
the host doesn't have `/var/empty', OpenSSH would crash because of not
having permissions to create this directory.
With this commit, we are now using OpenSSH's `--with-privsep-path'
configure-time option to explicitly use a directory with the project's
build directory.
This bug was found by Sheeraz Ahmad and Amina Aahil.
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This was a bug in WCSLIB 6.3 that has been fixed in WCSLIB 6.4. From
WCSLIB's changelog: "The rule change to the Fortran makefile in v6.3 to add
getwcstab_f.o to the sharable library causes it to depend on CFITSIO to
resolve fits_get_wcstab(). Hence backed out of that change.".
The actual error was like this:
Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
"_fits_read_wcstab", referenced from:
_ftwcst_ in getwcstab_f.o
"_gFitsFiles", referenced from:
_ftwcst_ in getwcstab_f.o
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64
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