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2020-08-17Minor typo correction in comments of paper.mkMohammad Akhlaghi-1/+1
The '.bbl' suffix in the comment of one call to LaTeX was incorrectly written as '.bb'.
2020-07-04Improved comments in paper.mk and README.mdMohammad Akhlaghi-1/+5
In 'README.md' I tried to explain a little better that TeXLive will only install its necessary packages, not the full TeXLive library! Also in paper.mk, I slightly improved the comments with very minor edits. Both these parts are slated to go into the core Maneage branch, so its important to maintain them here for now.
2020-06-30Imported Maneage infrastructure, no conflictsMohammad Akhlaghi-3/+5
There weren't any conflicts in this merge.
2020-06-30Proper deletion of util-linux source after successfully building itMohammad Akhlaghi-1/+3
After recently adding util-linux to Maneage build-tree, we had forgot to delete the unpacked and built source directory after it was installed! This has been corrected with this commit.
2020-06-30Entered data and software directories stored as absolute addressesMohammad Akhlaghi-2/+2
Until now, when the user specified an input and software directory, the raw string they entered was used. But when this string was a relative location, this could be problematic in general scenarios. With this commit, the same function that finds the absolute location of the build directory is used to find the absolute address of the data and software directories.
2020-06-30The distclean target accounts for non-existance of git hooksMohammad Akhlaghi-1/+1
Until now, when the user wanted to complete remove all built files (including software), the './project make distclean' command would fail if the git hooks weren't installed. They are present when the project's configuration has been successfully finished, but this bug can happen when trying to re-do an incomplete build. With this commit, this is fixed by adding an '-f' has been added before the 'rm' command for the Git hooks. This commit was also done in the core Maneage branch.
2020-06-30The distclean target accounts for non-existance of git hooksMohammad Akhlaghi-1/+1
Until now, when the user wanted to complete remove all built files (including software), the './project make distclean' command would fail if the git hooks weren't installed. They are present when the project's configuration has been successfully finished, but this bug can happen when trying to re-do an incomplete build. With this commit, this is fixed by adding an '-f' has been added before the 'rm' command for the Git hooks.
2020-06-30Imported recent improvements in Maneage, no conflictsMohammad Akhlaghi-52/+382
There weren't any conflicts in this merge.
2020-06-30Core Xorg libraries necessary for Ghostscript now includedMohammad Akhlaghi-50/+380
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.
2020-06-28Bison installation on macOS fixed by updating to version 3.6Raul Infante-Sainz-2/+2
Until this commit, there was a problem when building Bison in parallel in macOS systems. With this commit, this problem has been fixed by updating Bison to its most recent version (3.6).
2020-06-28Zenodo identifier is extracted automatically from metadata.confMohammad Akhlaghi-1/+5
Until now, the Zenodo identifier was manually written in the paper. But now we have the Zenodo DOI in 'metadata.conf', so its much more robust to get it from there (in case updated versions of the paper is published).
2020-06-27Imported recent work in master, minor conflict fixed in paper.mkMohammad Akhlaghi-2224/+2602
Only two conflicts came up in the newly added comments of 'paper.mk' in the Maneage branch. It happened because in this project we don't use 'pdflatex', but 'latex' alone.
2020-06-27IMPORTANT: many improvements to low-level software building phaseMohammad Akhlaghi-2171/+2405
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!
2020-06-25Check if there is enough available in selected build directoryPedram Ashofteh Ardakani-2/+45
Until now, Maneage would accept the given build directory, regardless of the free memory available there. This could cause confusing situations for new users who don't know about the minimum storage requirement. With this commit, after all other checks on the given build directory are completed, the configure script will check the available space and warns the user if there is less than almost 5GB free space available in the build directory (with a 5 second delay). It won't cause a crash because some projects may require roughly smaller than this space (the default only needs roughly 2GB). But we also don't want the host's partition to get too close to being full, causing them problems elsewhere. We can change the behavior as desired in future commits.
2020-06-19Removing preparation-done.mk when cleaning by ./project make cleanRaul Infante-Sainz-0/+1
Until this commit, the file `BDIR/software/preparation-done.mk' were not removed when cleaning the project with `./project make clean'. This file is generated in the preparation of the data during the analysis step. However, the cleaning is expected to remove anything generated in the analysis process! Step by step, with the commands: ./project make ---> Will make the preparation and analysis ./project make clean ---> Will remove all analysis outputs (but not `preparation-done.mk') ./project make ---> Won't do the preparation, only analysis! However, in the last step it should do the preparation again, because the input data could have change for any reason. With this commit, the file `BDIR/software/preparation-done.mk' is removed when cleaning the project, and consequently, in the analysis step the input data is prepared.
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'.
2020-06-17Text surrounding software acknowledgements as a configuration fileBoud Roukema-11/+124
Until now, the English texts that embeds the list of software to acknowledge in the paper was hard-wired into the low-level coding ('reproduce/software/shell/configure.sh' to be more specific). But this file is very low-level, thus discouraging users to modify this surrounding text. While the list of software packages can be considered to be 'data' and is fixed, the surrounding text to describe the lists is something the authors should decide on. Authors of a scientific research paper take responsibility for the full paper, including for the style of the acknowledgments, even if these may well evolve into some standard text. With this commit, authors who do *not* modify 'reproduce/software/config/acknowledge_software.sh' will have a default text, with only a minor English correction from earlier versions of Maneage. However, Authors choosing to use their own wording should be able to modify the text parameters in `reproduce/software/config/acknowledge_software.sh` in the obvious way. This is much more modular than asking project authors to go looking into the long and technical 'configure.sh' script. Systematic issues: the file `reproduce/software/config/acknowledge_software.sh` is an executable shell script, because it has to be called by `reproduce/software/shell/configure.sh`, which, in principle, does not yet have access to `GNU make` (if I understand the bootstrap sequence correctly). It is placed in `config/` rather than `shell/`, because the user will expect to find configuration files in `config/`, not in `shell/`. A possible alternative to avoid having a shell script as a configure file would be to let `reproduce/software/config/acknowledge_software.sh` appear to be a `make` file, but analyse it in `configure.sh` using `sed` to remove whitespace around `=`, and adding other hacks to switch from `make` syntax to `shell` syntax. However, this risks misleading the user, who will not know whether s/he should follow `make` conventions or `shell` conventions.
2020-06-17Security risk of LaTeX's -shell-escape option explained in commentBoud Roukema-0/+9
The 'pdflatex' program is used to build the default Maneage-branch paper. But since the default paper uses PGFPlots to build the figures within LaTeX as an external PDF, PGFPlots requires 'pdflatex' to be called with the '-shell-escape' option. Generally, this option can be considered as a security risk (in particular when 'pdflatex' is being run by an external LaTeX file: a malicious LaTeX writer may embed commands in the LaTeX source that will be executed on the host if this option is present). This is not too serious of an issue in Maneage, because when someone runs Maneage, they intentionally let it run many on their system. Hence if someone wants to exploit a host system, they can add the necessary commands long before 'pdflatex' is run. After all, all commands in Maneage are run with the calling user's permissions, hence they have access to many parts of the user's accounts. If someone is worried about security on a non-trusted Maneage project they should act the same as they do with any software: define a new user for it, and call it with that user (as a weak-level security), or run it in a virtual machine or container. However, since this option has been explicity mentioned as a security risk before, it helps if we have a comment explaining its usage in 'paper.mk'. With this commit, the concerned user will read a brief explanation and can read the brief discussion at [1] and possibly re-open the discussion or propose ways of mitigating the security risk(s). [1] https://savannah.nongnu.org/task/?15694
2020-06-17Software tarballs are downloaded even if not builtMohammad Akhlaghi-56/+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.
2020-06-17New target --dist-software to package all necessary software tarballsMohammad Akhlaghi-6/+2
When publishing a project, it is necessary to also publish the source code of all necessary software of the project. We had recently added a new './project make' target called 'dist-software' for this job, but had forgotten to add it in the output of './project --help'! There was also a small bug inside of it that didn't allow the successful copying of the created tarball to the top project directory. With this commit, an explanation for this target has been added in the output of './project --help' and that bug has been fixed.
2020-06-17Corrected symbolic link to Gnuastro's configuration filesMohammad Akhlaghi-1/+1
Until now, when making the link to Gnuastro's configuration files, the 'configure.sh' script would incorrectly link to the old configuration directory under the 'reproduce/software' directory. With this commit, it is moved to the proper directory under 'reproduce/analysis'.
2020-06-16Imported recent improvements in Maneage, minor conflicts fixedMohammad Akhlaghi-30/+56
Some minor conflicts came up in 'download.mk' and 'verify.mk' (as expected in the "IMPORTANT" commits) and were easily fixed by choosing this branch's values.
2020-06-16XLSX I/O properly accounts for local buildMohammad Akhlaghi-2/+2
Until now, when adding the necessary library flags to the build of XLSX I/O, we were effectively over-writing the 'LDFLAGS' variables. So the compiler was effectively not being told where to look for the necessary libraries. With this commit, to fix the problem, we now append the new linking flags to LDFLAGS in XLSX I/O's build, not over-write it.
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.
2020-06-15Configure script now accounts for non-interactive shellsMohammad Akhlaghi-6/+33
The project configuration requires a build-directory at configuration time, two other directories can optionally be given to avoid downloading the project's necessary data and software. It is possible to give these three directories as command-line options, or by interactively giving them after running the configure script. Until now, when these directories weren't given as command-line options, and the running shell was non-interactive, the configure script would crash on the line trying to interactively read the user's given directories (the 'read' command). With this commit, all the 'read' commands for these three directories are now put within an 'if' statement. Therefore, when 'read' fails (the shell is non-interactive), instead of a quiet crash, a descriptive message is printed, telling the user that cause of the problem, and suggesting a fix. This bug was found by Michael R. Crusoe.
2020-06-14Better description for input data directory, pointing to INPUTS.confMohammad Akhlaghi-19/+13
Until now, the description of the input-data directory at configure time included a description of the input data (created by reading the values of 'INPUTS.conf'). Maintaining this is easy for a single dataset, but it becomes hard for a general project which may need many input datasets. To avoid extra complexity (for maintaining this list), the description now points a user of the project to the 'INPUTS.conf' file and asks them to look inside of it for seeing the necessary data. This infact helps with the users becoming familiar with the internal structure of Maneage and will allow the authors to focus on not having to worry about updating the low-level 'configure.sh' script.
2020-06-14Better explanation in the start of project configurationMohammad Akhlaghi-3/+7
When './project configure' is run, after the basic checks of the compiler, a small statement is printed telling the user that some configuration questions will now be asked to start building Maneage on the system. Until now this description was confusing: it lead the reader to think that the local configuration (which was recommended to read before continuing) is in another file. With this commit, the text has been edited to explictly mention that the description of the steps following this notice should be read carefully. Thus avoiding that confusion. This issue was mentioned by Michael R. Crusoe.
2020-06-10Corrected bug in using local copy of input datasetMohammad Akhlaghi-13/+47
As described in Maneage's commit 2bd2e2f18 (which I found while testing this project), the existing download recipe had problems when using a local copy of the input dataset. It was first fixed here, then implemented there. Also, to clarify things for a new user, some long comments were added at the top of 'INPUTS.conf' to describe each of the variables, that comment has also been put here (and is also in commit 2bd2e2f18 of Maneage).
2020-06-10IMPORTANT: bug fix in default data download script of download.mkMohammad Akhlaghi-14/+54
Summary of possible semantic conflicts 1. The recipe to download input datasets has been modified. You have to re-set the old 'origname' variable to 'localname' (to avoid confusion) and the default dataset URL should now be complete (including the actual filename). See the newly added descriptions in 'INPUTS.conf' for more on this. Until now, when the dataset was already present on the host system, a link couldn't be made to it, causing the project to crash in the checksum phase. This has been fixed with properly naming the main variable as 'localname' to avoid the confusion that caused it. Some other problems have been fixed in this recipe in the meantime: - When the checksum is different, the expected and calculated checksums are printed. - In the default paper, we now print the full URL of the dataset, not just the server, so the checksum of the 'download.tex' step has been updated.
2020-06-09Minor edit printing arXiv URL in plain text metadataMohammad Akhlaghi-1/+1
Until now, in the 'print-copyright' function of 'initialize.mk' (that prints a fixed set of common meta necessary in plain-text files), we were simply printing this line: # Pre-print server: arXiv:1234.56789 But given that all the other elements are click-able URLs, it now prints: # Pre-print server: https://arxiv.org/abs/1234.56789
2020-06-09Two minor corrections to avoid warnings in make and make cleanMohammad Akhlaghi-10/+2
There were two small warnings that are removed with this commit: - In the end, when we print the number of words in the PDF, we hadn't accounted for the fact that 'paper.pdf' doesn't always exist (for example when './project make clean' is run). So a check was added to only print the number of words when a PDF exists. - I noticed that the '$(texdir)/to-publish' directory was being built both in 'initialize.mk' and in 'demo-plot.mk'. So the one in 'demo-plot.mk' has been removed.
2020-06-09Imported Maneage, minor conflicts fixed, a bug found and fixedMohammad Akhlaghi-54/+160
Some minor conflicts came up in 'initialize.mk' and 'verify.mk'. For the former, I chose the version on Maneage, for the latter, I kept the 'master' version on the checksums of this project, but kept the Maneage version for the rest of the improvements there (like printing the verified files as LaTeX comments in 'verify.tex'. While testing the conflicts, I noticed a bug (in the LaTeX macro for the number of years in the Menke+20 paper) in the previous build, thanks to the verification step :-)! Fortunately it wasn't actually printed in the PDF, so a normal reader won't recognize. The bug was caused by the recently added meta-data/commented lines in the 'tools-per-year.txt' file: when calculating the number of years studied in that paper, we were simply counting all the lines and we had forgot to correct this after adding comments. As a result, the un-used LaTeX macro file was saying that they have studied 47 years instead of the real 31 years! This element was actually used in the very first (+40 page!) draft of the paper that was summarized to fit into the journal limits.
2020-06-06IMPORTANT: Added publication checklist, improved relevant infrastructureMohammad Akhlaghi-68/+258
Possible semantic conflicts (that may not show up as Git conflicts but may cause a crash in your project after the merge): 1) The project title (and other basic metadata) should be set in 'reproduce/analysis/conf/metadata.conf'. Please include this file in your merge (if it is ignored because of '.gitattributes'!). 2) Consider importing the changes in 'initialize.mk' and 'verify.mk' (if you have added all analysis Makefiles to the '.gitattributes' file (thus not merging any change in them with your branch). For example with this command: git diff master...maneage -- reproduce/analysis/make/initialize.mk 3) The old 'verify-txt-no-comments-leading-space' function has been replaced by 'verify-txt-no-comments-no-space'. The new function will also remove all white-space characters between the columns (not just white space characters at the start of the line). Thus the resulting check won't involve spacing between columns. A common set of steps are always necessary to prepare a project for publication. Until now, we would simply look at previous submissions and try to follow them, but that was prone to errors and could cause confusion. The internal infrastructure also didn't have some useful features to make good publication possible. Now that the submission of a paper fully devoted to the founding criteria of Maneage is complete (arXiv:2006.03018), it was time to formalize the necessary steps for easier submission of a project using Maneage and implement some low-level features that can make things easier. With this commit a first draft of the publication checklist has been added to 'README-hacking.md', it was tested in the submission of arXiv:2006.03018 and zenodo.3872248. To help guide users on implementing the good practices for output datasets, the outputs of the default project shown in the paper now use the new features). After reading the checklist, please inspect these. Some other relevant changes in this commit: - The publication involves a copy of the necessary software tarballs. Hence a new target ('dist-software') was also added to package all the project's software tarballs in one tarball for easy distribution. - A new 'dist-lzip' target has been defined for those who want to distribute an Lzip-compressed tarball. - The '\includetikz' LaTeX macro now has a second argument to allow configuring the '\includegraphics' call when the plot should not be built, but just imported.
2020-06-04tex/build and tex/tikz treated properly in tarballMohammad Akhlaghi-1/+14
When the project is being re-built from the tarball (not the Git repository), the 'tex/build' and 'tex/tikz' addresses are actual directories, not symbolic links. In this case, when someone runs './project configure', it will complain about not being able to delete them (it assumes they are symbolic links!). So with this commit, we first check if they are deletable without '-r'. If so, then they are full directories and we rename them to a backup directory to allow the rest of the project to continue building a link there.
2020-06-04Minor improvements in the make dist command for this paperMohammad Akhlaghi-7/+12
This paper doesn't use pdflatex or biblatex, so it was necessary to make some small corrections in the make-dist rule of initialize.mk. Also, while testing the upload on arXiv, I noticed that it complains about an empty 'verify.tex' file, so that is also corrected.
2020-06-04Verification activated, README added, Proper metadata in plot dataMohammad Akhlaghi-18/+89
All the steps following the to-be-added (in 'README-hacking.md') publication checklist prior to the final check from new clone have been added: - 'README.md' file has been set. - "Reproducible supplement" was added just above the keywords, pointing to Zenodo. - A link to the to-be-uploaded data underlying the plot was added in the caption of the tools-per-year plot. - A new meta-data configuration file was added to store basic project metadata to be used throughout the project. This will later be taken into Maneage. For examle the project title is now stored here and written into the paper's LaTeX source and output datasets automatically. - Verification was activated and plot's data and LaTeX macro files are now automatically verified. - A complete metadata was added for the data underlying the plot. - A generic function was added in 'initialize.mk' that will automatically write project info and copyright in all plain-text outputs.
2020-06-03Imported recent updated in Maneage, minor conflict fixedMohammad Akhlaghi-864/+1297
The minor conflict was with 'reproduce/software/make/high-level.mk', and in particular because we implemented the fix to Maneage's Task #15664 in this project first. After it was moved to the main Maneage branch some minor stylistic corrections were done to it, thus causing the conflict. To resolve the conflict, I simply imported the full Maneage version of the file with this command: git checkout maneage -- reproduce/software/make/high-level.mk The other conflicts were due to the deleted files (that were resolved as described in 'README-hacking.md') and the LaTeX files that I had told '.gitattributes' to ignore from the Maneage branch.
2020-06-03README-hacking.md: Improved section on ignoring some files in ManeageMohammad Akhlaghi-2/+2
When some files should not be merged, until now we were suggesting to also add deleted files to the '.gitattributes' file. However, this feature of Git doesn't work for deleted files and they would still show up in the 'master' branch after a merge. So with this commit, we have added a simple AWK command to run after a merge that will automatically detect and delete such files (using the output of 'git status --porcelain'). Also, two minor typos were corrected in the newly added 'servers-backup.conf' file: the copyright year was wrong and there was no new-line at the end of the file (a good convention!).
2020-06-02Core software build before using Make to build other softwareMohammad Akhlaghi-364/+635
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.
2020-05-29TeX installation crash because of different tarball versions fixedRaul Infante-Sainz-2/+58
Until this commit, when the user have previous TeX tarball already present, the project crashed when trying to re-configure, if there was a newer version of TeX. This is because TeX are updated yearly. With this commit, this bug has been fixed. Now, during the installation of TeX, it checks if this problem happens. If this is the case, then it moves the old tarball, download the new one and install it. If not, it will just install the already present tarball or crash because of any other reason. This probem was recurrent, and each time TeX was updated, the previous tarball had to be removed manually. But now, with this commit, it is done automatically. The detection and fix of this bug has been possible with the help of Mohammad Akhlaghi, thanks!
2020-05-29Reproducible research based on open-access papersBoud Roukema-0/+17
Publishing a paper on reproducible research without making it easy for readers to read the references would defeat the point. Of course we have to make some compromises with some journals' reluctance to shift towards the free world, but to satisfy scientific ethics, we should at least provide clickable URLs to the references, preferably to the ArXiv version if available [1], and also to the DOI, again, preferably to an open-access version of the URL if available. I was not able to fully get this done in the .bst file, so there's an sed/tr hack done to the .bbl file in `reproduce/analysis/make/paper.mk` to tidy up commas and spaces. This commit also reverts some of the hacks in the Akhlaghi IAU Symposium `tex/src/references.tex` entry, to match the improved .bst file, `tex/src/IEEEtran_openaccess.bst`, provided here with a different name to the original, in order to satisfy the LaTeX licence. [1] https://cosmo.torun.pl/blog/arXiv_refs
2020-05-28Fixed TeXLive crash because of differing local and server versionsRaul Infante-Sainz-3/+80
Until this commit, when the user had a previous TeXLive tarball already present (in their software-tarball directory) compared to the CTAN server, the project crashed in the configure phase. This was because TeXLive is updated yearly and we don't yet install TeXLive from source (currently we use its own package manager, but we plan to fix this in task #15267). With this commit, we fix the problem by checking the cause of the crash during the installation of TeX. If the crash is due to this particular error, we ignore the old tarball and download the new one and install it (the old one is still kept in '.build/software/tarballs', but will get a '-OLD' in its name. This probem was recurrent, and every year that TeXLive is updated, the previous tarball had to be removed manually! But with this commit, this is done automatically. The detection and fix of this bug has been possible with the help of Mohammad Akhlaghi, thanks!
2020-05-25Unified reference to GNU/Linux and free softwareMohammad Akhlaghi-8/+8
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-1/+105
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.
2020-05-23Added TeXLive's ulem package to also be builtMohammad Akhlaghi-1/+1
David reported this problem, it happened right after importing IEEEtran, but for some reason, it didn't happen for me.
2020-05-23Corrected name of listings package when installing it with texliveMohammad Akhlaghi-1/+1
When entering the name of the "listings" package, I had forgot to add the final 's', so it wasn't being installed on a clean system! I didn't have a problem until now, because it remained from previous builds.
2020-05-22Software citation: removed abstract entry from BibTeX infoMohammad Akhlaghi-7/+0
Until now, two of the software BibTeX sources (Matplolib and Sympy) had an "abstract" entry that was long, not similar to the rest, and not relevant in this context, so they are removed with this commit.
2020-05-22Corrected copyright notices to fit GPL suggested formatMohammad Akhlaghi-162/+246
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
2020-05-22Re-write of the paper to fit in ~6000 words and IEEE formatMohammad Akhlaghi-7/+14
Following the fact that the DSJ editor decided that this paper doesn't fit into their scope, we decided to submit it to IEEE's Computing in Science and Engineering (CiSE). So with this commit the text was re-written to fit into their style and word-count limitations.
2020-05-08Added the option -e in the configure Gnuastro warning messageRaul Infante-Sainz-1/+1
Until this commit, when the version of Gnuastro doesn't match with the version that the project was designed to use, the warning message saying how to run the configure step was not showing the option `-e'. This situation is normal when updating the version of Gnuastro to the most recent one (with the project already configured). However, the use of this option is more convenient than giving the top-build directory, etc, every time. With this commit, the warning message has been changed in order show also the option `-e' in the re-configure of the project.