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2020-01-19New --check-config option to ./project to check software build statusMohammad Akhlaghi-0/+42
Until now, it was necessry to run a long `while true' loop to see what is currently being built at configure time. So with this commit, a new `--checkconfig' option has been added to `./project' that can be called to run that loop and make it easier to check.
2020-01-01Copyright statements updated to include 2020Mohammad Akhlaghi-1/+1
Now that its 2020, its necessary to include this year in the copyright statements.
2019-11-24Project's Makefiles run with no builtin rules or variablesMohammad Akhlaghi-1/+2
Until now, after removing all environment variables, we were just giving Make the top Makefile to execute. By default, for every target, Make will try many built-in rules (which is good when compiling programs, but redundant in other cases). All these checkings also populate the debugging output of Make (with `-d'). So its easier and slightly faster to just tell Make to ignore builtin rules and variables. With this commit, to address this issue, the `project' script runs `.local/bin/make' with `--no-builtin-rules' and `--no-builtin-variables'.
2019-10-01Infrastructure to keep preparation resultsMohammad Akhlaghi-1/+1
A special directory is now defined in `initialize.mk' that can be used in both the preparation and build phases. Also, the contents of prepared results can now be conditionally read during `./project make'.
2019-10-01Preparation phase added before final buildingMohammad Akhlaghi-31/+97
In many real-world scenarios, `./project make' can really benefit from having some basic information about the data before being run. For example when quering a server. If we know how many datasets were downloaded and their general properties, it can greatly optmize the process when we are designing the solution to be run in `./project make'. Therefore with this commit, a new phase has been added to the template's design: `./project prepare'. In the raw template this is empty, because the simple analysis done in the template doesn't warrant it. But everything is ready for projects using the template to add preparation phases prior to the analysis.
2019-09-28Main project script sets executable flags at configure timeMohammad Akhlaghi-0/+20
Until now, when the project's source was downloaded from something like arXiv, in `README.md', we were instructing them to set the executable flags of all the files that need it. But except for `./project', the reader shouldn't have to worry about the project internals! Once its executable, `./project' can easily fix the executable flags of all the files that need it automatically. With this commit, in `README.md', we just instruct the reader to set the executable flag of `./project' and any other file that needs an executable flag is given one at the start of the set of commands for `./project configure'. In customized projects, if an author needs executable flags on any other files, they can easily add it there without involving the user.
2019-09-26Working project when downloaded from arXivMohammad Akhlaghi-0/+13
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.
2019-09-16Distribution tarball now builds in arXivMohammad Akhlaghi-11/+20
`./project make dist' will package all the LaTeX-specific files (and analysis source files) into one `tar.gz' file that is ready to upload to servers like arXiv. However, it wasn't updated for some time, so running it would complain about not having a `configure' script in the top of the project. With this commit, it now works with the new file-structure of the project and also copies all the BibLaTeX source files and `paper.bbl' into the top tarball directory, which allows arXiv to build the paper as intended. The output of `./project make dist' has been uploaded and tested on arXiv and it is built by arXiv perfectly. Also, a short description of all the special `make' targets was added to the output of `./project --help'.
2019-07-28Corrected typo in environment before running makeMohammad Akhlaghi-1/+1
We recently moved the system's `rm' program absolute address to a shell variable that is found during the `./project' script. But I had forgot to account for the difference between the Make and Bash variable naming differences. I had also forgot to add a value to the HOME variable. With this commit both are corrected: the system's `rm' path is now called `sys_rm' and the HOME variable is set.
2019-07-28Single wrapper instead of old ./configure, Makefile and ./for-groupMohammad Akhlaghi-0/+291
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.