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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.
2020-06-17Security 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
2020-06-17New 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.
2020-06-10IMPORTANT: 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
2020-06-06IMPORTANT: Added publication checklist, improved relevant infrastructureMohammad Akhlaghi-67/+242
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.
2020-06-02Core software build before using Make to build other softwareMohammad Akhlaghi-23/+34
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.
2020-05-22Corrected copyright notices to fit GPL suggested formatMohammad Akhlaghi-75/+116
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
2020-04-26Corrected Gnuastro configuration directory in initialize.mkZahra Sharbaf-1/+1
Recently (in Commit 8eb0892e) the Gnuastro configuration files moved under "reproduce/analysis/config/gnuastro" directory (before that they were in `reproduce/software/config/gnuastro)'. But this hadn't been reflected in it the variable that defines this directory in `initialize.mk'. With this commit, the address of the Gnuastro configuration files directory is corrected, allowing Gnuastro programs to operate properly when it is used.
2020-04-26verify-outputs.conf: typo correction in comment to avoid confusionBoud Roukema-1/+1
Until now, the comment in the file said that setting the `verify-outputs` variable to `yes` disables the verification. Looking at `reproduce/analysis/make/verify.mk` shows that the opposite is true. With this commit, the word `disable` is replaced with `enable` so that the user is not confused by the conflict between the source code in the other file and this comment.
2020-04-20Maneage instead of Template in README-hacking.md and copyright noticesMohammad Akhlaghi-91/+73
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.
2020-04-17IMPORTANT: software config directly under reproduce/software/configMohammad Akhlaghi-4/+132
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.
2020-04-13Configure (TeXLive): Year of distribution no longer in directoryMohammad Akhlaghi-1/+1
It is this time of year again: TeXLive has transitioned to its 2020 release and the year is imprinted into the installation directory of TeXLive. Until now, we have had to manually change this year and it caused complications and was very annoying. With this commit, the explicit year has been removed from TeXLive's installation and we now simply put a `maneage' instead of the year. I tried this on another system and it worked nicely. Until the time that we can fully install LaTeX packages from source tarballs, this is the best thing we could do for now.
2020-02-29IMPORTANT: re-preparation can only be done with --prepare-redoMohammad Akhlaghi-13/+2
Until now, the preparation phase was always executed before the final build phase when running `./project make'. But when it becomes necessary, project preparation can be slow and will un-necessarily slow down the project while the project is growing (focus is on the analysis that is done after preparation). With this commit, preparation will be done automatically the first time that the project is run (`.build/software/preparation-done.mk' doesn't exist). However, after preperation is complete once, future runs of `./project make' won't do preparation any more (by calling `top-prepare.mk'). They will directly call `top-make.mk' for the analysis. To manually invoke preparation after the first attempt, the `./project make' script should be run with the new `--prepare-redo' option. Also, since the preparation phase is now automatically done before the analysis phase, the long notice that describes running `./project make' at the end of the preparation phase has been removed in `top-prepare.mk'. It now just prints a short line, saying the preparation has been complete. Finally, when the project has not been run with the proper group configuration, it ends with an `exit 1' so the main `./project' script doesn't proceed any further.
2020-02-20Preparation phase: prepare.tex not needed to finish preparationMohammad Akhlaghi-1/+3
Until now, the final preparation target of the preparation phase depended on all the `$(makesrc)' files. This caused a problem because we were telling it to also depend on `prepare.tex' (which is the same file that is being built). With this commit, we are applying the same solution we have already done in `paper.mk' (for `paper.tex'): we are removing `prepare' from the list of prerequisites. This bug was found by Zahra Sharbaf.
2020-02-11Using backup server when original download server failsMohammad Akhlaghi-1/+21
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-2/+2
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'.
2020-01-31Configure step: compiler checks done before basic settingsMohammad Akhlaghi-0/+6
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.
2020-01-20IMPORTANT!!! Configuration Makefiles now have a .conf suffixMohammad Akhlaghi-19/+20
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.
2020-01-18README-hacking.md: edits and corrections for easier customizationMohammad Akhlaghi-2/+2
The checklist descriptions were slightly edited to be more clear. Also, while following them, I noticed that while removing the "delete-me" parts on `verify.mk', would cause an error: the `if [ $$m == delete-me ];' statement we were saying to delete cause an error because `elif' was the first statement Bash would see. So with this commit, the `download' conditional (which isn't instructed to be deleted) was set to be the top (with an `if') and the `delete-me' conditional now has an `elif'.
2020-01-01Verification function checks if file existsMohammad Akhlaghi-3/+13
Until now, if the file to be verified didn't exist, a different checksum would be generated, and it would stop, but it wasn't immediately clear if the differing checksum is because the file doesn't exist at all! With this commit, before calculating the checksum, we first make sure if the file exists. If it doesn't exist an explicit error is printed and thus will help the project editor to find the cause of the problem.
2020-01-01Verification of output values and data added within templateMohammad Akhlaghi-22/+146
Until now, the only verification that the template provided was the published PDF. Users had to manually compare the published and generated PDFs (numbers, plots, tables) and see if they obtained the same result. However, this type of manual verification is not good and is prone to frustration and missing important differences. With this commit, a new Makefile has been added in the analysis steps: `verify.mk'. It provides facilities to easily verify the results that go into the paper. For example tables that go into making the paper's plots, or the LaTeX macros that blend into the text. See the updated parts in `README-hacking.md` for a more complete explanation. This completes task #15497.
2020-01-01Copyright statements updated to include 2020Mohammad Akhlaghi-10/+10
Now that its 2020, its necessary to include this year in the copyright statements.
2019-11-29Download links directly to actual file if it exists in INDIRMohammad Akhlaghi-2/+8
Until now, when an input dataset already exists in `INDIR', the template would just make a symbolic link to it in the build directory. However, in many cases, the files in INDIR will actually be links to other locations on the filesystem and some programs have problems following too many links. With this commit, the template is now using the `readlink' program (part of GNU Coreutils) to follow a possible link and point the link in the build directory directly to an actual non-link file.
2019-10-31Minor corrections in distribution and autoconf prerequisite of automakeMohammad Akhlaghi-0/+1
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.
2019-10-19Minor improvments in packaging of project with make distMohammad Akhlaghi-12/+14
The steps to package the project have been made slightly more clear and also the temporary directory that is created for packaging is deleted after the tarball is made.
2019-10-11Properly working make clean when in group modeMohammad Akhlaghi-3/+4
Until now, when you ran `make clean', all the directories under `$(BDIR)/tex/' would be deleted except for `macros' and `build'. This was good for the single-user mode. But in group mode, this would delete the user-specific TeX build directory because its called `build-USER', not `build'. With this commit, to fix the problem, we define the new `texbtopdir' and based on the group condition, and use that to specify which directory to not delete.
2019-10-02Possibile to use download-multi-try script without locksMohammad Akhlaghi-4/+11
Until now, this script would always only work with a file-lock. But in some scenarios, we might want to download in parallel. For example when the system has multiple ports to the internet. With this commit, we have added this feature: when the lockfile name is `nolock', it won't lock and will download in parallel.
2019-10-01Minor corrections in configure and prepare phaseMohammad Akhlaghi-10/+10
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.
2019-10-01Infrastructure to keep preparation resultsMohammad Akhlaghi-17/+50
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-0/+126
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.
2019-09-26Working project when downloaded from arXivMohammad Akhlaghi-2/+4
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.
2019-09-25Won't copy previous distribution builds in new distributionMohammad Akhlaghi-1/+1
Until now, the pipeline was instructed to only ignore the current temporary project distribution directory. So if there were directories from previous builds, they were wrongly included in the current tarball. With this commit, we don't just ignore the directory of the current distribution, but generally, all directories starting with `paper-v*'.
2019-09-16Git checksum printed even when on a tagMohammad Akhlaghi-2/+2
Until now, when the commit was tagged, `git describe' would just print the tag and no longer the commit checksum. This is bad because the checksum is a much more robust way to confirm the point in history. With this commit the `--long' option has been added to `git describe' to fix this issue. From now on, when we are on a tag, it will print the tag followed by a `-0-' and the first characters of the checksum.
2019-09-16Distribution tarball now builds in arXivMohammad Akhlaghi-8/+25
`./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'.
2019-08-22OpenMPI environment variable used to disable need for OpenSSHMohammad Akhlaghi-1/+5
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.
2019-08-01Git hooks removed after doing a distcleanMohammad Akhlaghi-0/+5
Until now, when you needed to completely clean a project (with `./project make distclean') the Git hooks that are installed during configure time would cause problems when committing (the `pre-commit' hook in particular won't allow you to commit anything!). With this commit, before deleting the software, the template first removes these Git hooks.
2019-08-01Bash startup script for every recipeMohammad Akhlaghi-0/+4
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).
2019-07-28Corrected typo in environment before running makeMohammad Akhlaghi-3/+3
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-18/+20
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-7/+8
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.
2019-06-29Added citation for TIDES, sorted progs alphabeticallyMohammad Akhlaghi-6/+10
While reviewing Prasenjit's commits, I noticed that we had forgot to add the citation for TIDES, also to make things clear, the program/library build rules are now sorted alphabetically. Finally, I noticed that after building the TiKZ PDF figures, it is crashing (like on Prasenjit's computer). After looking around, I noticed its because we were setting the of the `TEXINPUTS' environment variable to be the installed TeX Live directory (which was ultimately redundant because by default TeX will look into where it was installed). The important thing is just that we remove any possible value the host system has, not to set new directories.
2019-06-28tides library addedPrasenjit Saha-1/+1
TIDES is an ODE integrator with multiple-precision arithmetic.
2019-06-28Corrections to basic buildPrasenjit Saha-1/+1
Several corrections were necessary in the basic build: 1) the version of GCC on some systems includes an `_' which would cause a crash when building the PDF. 2) libcharset had to be manually added to the Git build.
2019-06-13Permission flags of top.mk set to 644 like others, not 755Mohammad Akhlaghi-0/+0
Until now, for some reason, the permission flags of `top.mk' were 755 (good for an executable), not 644 (which is what they should be for a plain text file that is run by another program). This is corrected with this commit.
2019-05-21Imported Matplotlib installation, no conflictsMohammad Akhlaghi-0/+0
There weren't any conflicts in this merge.
2019-05-21ImageMagick is now included into the projectRaul Infante-Sainz-0/+0
With this commit, ImageMagick software has been added into the project. This software is useful to deal and treat images from the command line. Since it is widely used and a lot of other programs rely on it, it is worth to have it into the project.
2019-05-21Source directory links to build directory all managed in configureMohammad Akhlaghi-5/+2
Until now, the `tex/build' symbolic link was put in the clone/source tree when the build-directory's `tex' directory was being built. Thanks to Roberto Baena, we just found a bug because of this behavior: when a second group member is trying to build the pipeline, since the build directory's `tex' directory already exists, no `tex/build' will be put in their clone/source directory. As a result, the PDF building will crash. To fix this (and keep things organized), the two `tex/build' and `tex/tikz' links (to the build directory) are now built in the configure step while it is building all the top-level directories. They are no longer built within the Makefiles. Also, a comment was added on top of every directory built during the configuration phase to be clear. This fixes bug #56362.
2019-05-09download-multi-try now starts with a /bin/bash shebangMohammad Akhlaghi-0/+2
Until now, the `download-multi-try' script assumed GNU Bash features (when comparing the number of attempts at downloading), but it didn't explicitly ask the operating system to be run with Bash. As a result, when weaker shells were used (like the default Debian minimalist `dash' shell), the `>' ("larger than" operator in a math context) is interpreted a redirection and two extra files are created: `1' and `maxcount'! With this commit, we now start this script with `/bin/bash'. Ofcourse, this will assume that the host has GNU Bash installed, but we are also making this assumption in the configure script. So atleast for now, Bash (any version) is a critical dependency of this template anyway.
2019-04-30End-of-line Backslashs no longer right under each otherMohammad Akhlaghi-9/+9
When we need to quote the new-line character we end the line with a backslash (`\'). Until now, our convention has been to put all such backslashes under each other to help in visual inspection. But this causes a lot of confusion in version control: if only one line's length is larger, the whole block will be marked as changed and thus makes it hard to visually see the actual change. It also makes debuging the code (adding some temporary lines) hard. With this commit, I went through all the files and tried to fix all such cases so only a single white space character is between the last command character and the backslash. Where there was an empty line (ending with a backslash, to help in visually separating the code into blocks), I put the backslash right under the previous line's. This completes task #15259.