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When you point to this project, the `README.md' file is the default file
that opens on GitLab and other online git repositories. Since a
reproduction pipeline project is different from the actual pipeline, its
best for the default text that opens to describe the paper, not the
pipeline. The old `README.md' is also kept, but its now called
`REAME-pipeline.md'.
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When there is a problem in creating the final TeX Live installation, the
previous version of the pipeline would not understand and just finish! We
would later have problems in building the paper.
So the following series of steps were taken: to keep the recipes in a
shorter and easier to understand way, the steps to install TeX Live are now
one rule (that produce `.local/bin/texlive-ready-tlmgr' when its
successful), and the steps to install the necessary packages are in another
rule (that produce `.local/bin/texlive-ready' when its successful).
When control comes back inside configure, if `.local/bin/texlive-ready'
isn't there (something failed during the TeX Live installation, or building
packages), then the whole TeX Live installation directory
(`.local/texlive') will be deleted along with the two output files. This
will help ensure that future steps can check the availablility of a working
TeX Live in the pipeline.
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The system's libraries are no longer used in building the higher-level
dependencies. Also, thanks to Raul Infante Sainz, we found out that Bash's
build script was still removing the extra directory information (not
good!).
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GNU Coreutils are basic programs that can help in the configuration of
higher-level programs. Because of that, it was a dependency of almost all
software built in `dependencies.mk'. To make things more clear, easier to
read and faster (when building in parallel), the building of Coreutils is
now moved to the `dependencies-basic.mk' rules. There, it is built
along-side Bash. Since `dependenceis-basic.mk' is run and completed before
`dependencies.mk', with this, we can be sure that Coreutils is present by
the time we want to build the higher-level programs.
Also, Zlib is now added as a dependency of Git also (it is necessary for
its build).
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Until now, we were building Libtool as a high-level `top-level-programs'
software. But all tools that use the `./configure' script already have a
version of Libtool in them. So ultimately the `libtool' in the PATH is not
used. However, in the case of Gnuastro, we need libtool for running
BulidProgram. So in effect, its a dependency of Gnuastro.
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When the C compiler is not GNU GCC, linking with GNU Binutils is going to
cause problems. So until the time that we can include GCC into this
pipeline, its best to avoid Binutils also.
Also, for building CMake, we were relying on an installed CMake, but now,
we are using its own `./bootstrap' script, so it can be built even if the
host system doesn't have CMake.
Also, for TeX Live, we are now setting a custom file as main target to
avoid complications with symbolic links as targets in Make.
Finally, when the user says they don't want to re-write an existing
configuration file, no extra notices will be printed and the configure
script will immediately start building programs.
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The two README files have been updated to explain the new feature of
downloading and building dependencies.
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Since the final product of the pipeline is a LaTeX-created PDF file, it was
necessary to also have LaTeX within the pipeline. With this commit, TeX
Live is also built as part of the configuration and all the necessary
packages to build the PDF are also installed and mentioned in the paper
along with their versions.
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TeX Live is now also downloaded and built by the reproduction
pipeline. Currently on the basic (TeX and LaTeX) source is built but no
extra packages, so the PDF building will fail. We'll add them in the next
commit.
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To have better control over the build, GNU Binutils, Bzip2, GNU Gzip, and
XZ Utils have also been added to the pipeline. Some other minor cleanups
and fixes were also implemented throughout the process.
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To ensure the easy unpacking and building of the programs, Lzip and Tar are
now also build during the initial setup phase.
Some minor corrections were also applied to make things cleaner and
smoother.
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Until now, we used semicolons in Make's Call function definitions to build
the programs with GNU build system or CMake. Therefore, if any step of the
process failed, the rest would be ignorant to it and pass. Now, we use `&&'
to separate the different processing steps. In this way, we can be sure
that if any of them fails (during configuration, or building for example),
the pipeline will also stop and not continue to the next command (in the
same recipe).
Since the two Make Call functions were identical in the two
`dependencies-basic.mk' and `dependencies.mk', they are now in one file to
be imported in both.
This bug was found by Raul Infante Sainz.
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After a test by Raúl Infante Sainz, we found out that the configure script
and the Make script for Bash and Make are making too many assumptions on
more recent versions of both. As a result, it couldn't be built.
Therefore, the `configure' script was modified to not use more recent tools
like `readlink' (to find the absolute address of a relative one). It was
also re-organized to not have to read the configuration parameters from a
text file. The parameters are directly read from the command-line and are
written into the proper file afterwards. This removes the need to opening a
text editor by the user (which also caused problems on Raúl's system).
To fix the Make version issue, the building of Bash and Make are now done
in a new Makefile (`reproduce/src/make/dependencies-basic.mk'). This file
doesn't make many of the assumptions that were made in
`dependencies.mk'. So it should hopefully work on any version of Make.
To help in debugging, for now, the Makefile of configure, are asked to work
on one thread (the `-j' option is commented in the `configure'). But after
checks, we'll fix this.
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All the libraries that define their version string as a macro in their
headers are now also checked in `reproduce/src/make/initialize.mk'.
Also, the CFITSIO tarball now follows the same versioning style as the rest
of the tarballs: a script is added to convert the version string into what
is included in the tarball.
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We were mistakenly using GSL's name for the unpacked tarball.
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During the configuration step several new programs that were necessary for
a more complete controlled environment are now also downloaded and built
statically.
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The host web address of most of the necessary packages was blank (filled
with `WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW' as a place holder). They now point to the correct
webpages.
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To enable easy/proper reproduction of results, all the high-level
dependencies are now built within the pipeline and installed in a fixed
directory that is added to the PATH of the Makefile. This includes GNU Bash
and GNU Make, which are then used to run the pipeline.
The `./configure' script will first build Bash and Make within itself, then
it will build
All the dependencies are also built to be static. So after they are built,
changing of the system's low-level libraries (like C library) won't change
the tarballs.
Currently the C library and C compiler aren't built within the pipeline,
but we'll hopefully add them to the build process also.
With this change, we now have full control of the shell and Make that will
be used in the pipeline, so we can safely remove some of the generalities
we had before.
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