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2022-04-20Updated Git, Coreutils and Emacs, new script to prepare tarballsPedram Ashofteh Ardakani-7/+190
Until now, one had to follow the instructions from [1] to prepare a standard software tarball before merging with the low-level tarballs-software repository [2]. The script only worked for '.tar.gz' suffix and was only available as a comment on Savannah (in [1]). With this commit, the script has been imported into Maneage as 'reproduce/software/shell/tarball-prepare.sh' to simplify future software updates. It work with all supported '.tar.*' suffixes (of the upstream tarball repository) and will convert the tarballs to Maneage's standard format. Also, this script has a minimal argument parser and can skip the tarballs that are already unpacked, allowing faster tests. This script was used to update the versions of: Coreutiles 9.0 --> 9.1 Git 2.34 --> 2.36 Emacs 27.2 --> 28.1 The main motive behind this update was Git which announced a vulnerability issue [3] and suggested an update to the latest version as soon as possible. More detail is described in this github blog [4], but in summary, it was a security issue on multi-user systems that has been found and fixed by Git developers. Since Maneage is often installed on such shared systems, it was important to make this update. GNU Coreutils and GNU Emacs were also updated because they are also commonly used. The following improvements have also done with this commit: - .gitignore: ignore emacs auto-save files (that end with a '#') - README-hacking.md: In the checklist for updating the Maneage branch, the no-longer-necessary '--decorate' option of Git was removed from the command to check the general branch history. [1] https://savannah.nongnu.org/task/?15699 [2] https://git.maneage.org/tarballs-software.git/ [3] https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqv8veb5i6.fsf@gitster.g/ [4] https://github.blog/2022-04-12-git-security-vulnerability-announced/
2022-01-21IMPORTANT: Updates to almost all softwareMohammad Akhlaghi-1404/+2219
This commit primarily affects the configuration step of Maneage'd projects, and in particular, updated versions of the many of the software (see P.S.). So it shouldn't affect your high-level analysis other than the version bumps of the software you use (and the software's possibly improve/changed behavior). The following software (and thus their dependencies) couldn't be updated as described below: - Cryptography: isn't building because it depends on a new setuptools-rust package that has problems (https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?61731), so it has been commented in 'versions.conf'. - SecretStorage: because it depends on Cryptography. - Keyring: because it depends on SecretStorage. - Astroquery: because it depends on Keyring. This is a "squashed" commit after rebasing a development branch of 60 commits corresponding to a roughly two-month time interval. The following people contributed to this branch. - Boudewijn Roukema added all the R software infrastructure and the R packages, as well as greatly helping in fixing many bugs during the update. - Raul Infante-Sainz helped in testing and debugging the build. - Pedram Ashofteh Ardakani found and fixed a bug. - Zahra Sharbaf helped in testing and found several bugs. Below a description of the most noteworthy points is given. - Software tarballs: all updated software now have a unified format tarball (ustar; if not possible, pax) and unified compression (Lzip) in Maneage's software repository in Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3883409). For more on this See https://savannah.nongnu.org/task/?15699 . This won't affect any extra software you would like to add; you can use any format recognized by GNU Tar, and all common compression algorithms. This new requirement is only for software that get merged to the core Maneage branch. - Metastore (and thus libbsd and libmd) moved to highlevel: Metastore (and the packages it depends on) is a high-level product that is only relevant during the project development (like Emacs!): when the user wants the file meta data (like dates) to be unchanged after checking out branches. So it should be considered a high-level software, not basic. Metastore also usually causes many more headaches and error messages, so personally, I have stopped using it! Instead I simply merge my branches in a separate clone, then pull the merge commit: in this way, the files of my project aren't re-written during the checkout phase and therefore their dates are untouched (which can conflict with Make's dates on configuration files). - The un-official cloned version of Flex (2.6.4-91 until this commit) was causing problems in the building of Netpbm, so with this commit, it has been moved back to version 2.6.4. - Netpbm's official page had version 10.73.38 as the latest stable tarball that was just released in late 2021. But I couldn't find our previously-used version 10.86.99 anywhere (to see when it was released and why we used it! Its at last more than one year old!). So the official stable version is being used now. - Improved instructions in 'README.md' for building software environment in a Docker container (while having project source and output data products on the local system; including the usage of the host's '/dev/shm' to speed up temporary operations). - Until now, the convention in Maneage was to put eight SPACE characters before the comment lines within recipes. This was done because by default GNU Emacs (also many other editors) show a TAB as eight characters. However, in other text editors, online browsers, or even the Git diff, a TAB can correspond to a different number of characters. In such cases, the Maneage recipes wouldn't look too interesting (the comments and the recipe commands would show a different indentation!). With this commit, all the comment lines in the Makefiles within the core Maneage branch have a hash ('#') as their first character and a TAB as the second. This allows the comment lines in recipes to have the same indentation as code; making the code much more easier to read in a general scenario including a 'git diff' (editor agnostic!). P.S. List of updated software with their old and new versions - Software with no version update are not mentioned. - The old version of newly added software are shown with '--'. Name (Basic) Old version New version ------------ ----------- ----------- Bzip2 1.0.6 1.0.8 CURL 7.71.1 7.79.1 Dash 0.5.10.2 0.5.11.5 File 5.39 5.41 Flock 0.2.3 0.4.0 GNU Bash 5.0.18 5.1.8 GNU Binutils 2.35 2.37 GNU Coreutils 8.32 9.0 GNU GCC 10.2.0 11.2.0 GNU M4 1.4.18 1.4.19 GNU Readline 8.0 8.1.1 GNU Tar 1.32 1.34 GNU Texinfo 6.7 6.8 GNU diffutils 3.7 3.8 GNU findutils 4.7.0 4.8.0 GNU gmp 6.2.0 6.2.1 GNU grep 3.4 3.7 GNU gzip 1.10 1.11 GNU libunistring 0.9.10 1.0 GNU mpc 1.1.0 1.2.1 GNU mpfr 4.0.2 4.1.0 GNU nano 5.2 6.0 GNU ncurses 6.2 6.3 GNU wget 1.20.3 1.21.2 Git 2.28.0 2.34.0 Less 563 590 Libxml2 2.9.9 2.9.12 Lzip 1.22-rc2 1.22 OpenSLL 1.1.1a 3.0.0 Patchelf 0.10 0.13 Perl 5.32.0 5.34.0 Podlators -- 4.14 Name (Highlevel) Old version New version ---------------- ----------- ----------- Apachelog4cxx 0.10.0-603 0.12.1 Astrometry.net 0.80 0.85 Boost 1.73.0 1.77.0 CFITSIO 3.48 4.0.0 Cmake 3.18.1 3.21.4 Eigen 3.3.7 3.4.0 Expat 2.2.9 2.4.1 FFTW 3.3.8 3.3.10 Flex 2.6.4-91 2.6.4 Fontconfig 2.13.1 2.13.94 Freetype 2.10.2 2.11.0 GNU Astronomy Utilities 0.12 0.16.1-e0f1 GNU Autoconf 2.69.200-babc 2.71 GNU Automake 1.16.2 1.16.5 GNU Bison 3.7 3.8.2 GNU Emacs 27.1 27.2 GNU GDB 9.2 11.1 GNU GSL 2.6 2.7 GNU Help2man 1.47.11 1.48.5 Ghostscript 9.52 9.55.0 ICU -- 70.1 ImageMagick 7.0.8-67 7.1.0-13 Libbsd 0.10.0 0.11.3 Libffi 3.2.1 3.4.2 Libgit2 1.0.1 1.3.0 Libidn 1.36 1.38 Libjpeg 9b 9d Libmd -- 1.0.4 Libtiff 4.0.10 4.3.0 Libx11 1.6.9 1.7.2 Libxt 1.2.0 1.2.1 Netpbm 10.86.99 10.73.38 OpenBLAS 0.3.10 0.3.18 OpenMPI 4.0.4 4.1.1 Pixman 0.38.0 0.40.0 Python 3.8.5 3.10.0 R 4.0.2 4.1.2 SWIG 3.0.12 4.0.2 Util-linux 2.35 2.37.2 Util-macros 1.19.2 1.19.3 Valgrind 3.15.0 3.18.1 WCSLIB 7.3 7.7 Xcb-proto 1.14 1.14.1 Xorgproto 2020.1 2021.5 Name (Python) Old version New version ------------- ----------- ----------- Astropy 4.0 5.0 Beautifulsoup4 4.7.1 4.10.0 Beniget -- 0.4.1 Cffi 1.12.2 1.15.0 Cryptography 2.6.1 36.0.1 Cycler 0.10.0 0.11.0+} Cython 0.29.21 0.29.24 Esutil 0.6.4 0.6.9 Extension-helpers -- 0.1 Galsim 2.2.1 2.3.3 Gast -- 0.5.3 Jinja2 -- 3.0.3 MPI4py 3.0.3 3.1.3 Markupsafe -- 2.0.1 Numpy 1.19.1 1.21.3 Packaging -- 21.3 Pillow -- 8.4.0 Ply -- 3.11 Pyerfa -- 2.0.0.1 Pyparsing 2.3.1 3.0.4 Pythran -- 0.11.0 Scipy 1.5.2 1.7.3 Setuptools 41.6.0 58.3.0 Six 1.12.0 1.16.0 Uncertainties 3.1.2 3.1.6 Wheel -- 0.37.0 Name (R) Old version New version -------- ----------- ----------- Cli -- 2.5.0 Colorspace -- 2.0-1 Cowplot -- 1.1.1 Crayon -- 1.4.1 Digest -- 0.6.27 Ellipsis -- 0.3.2 Fansi -- 0.5.0 Farver -- 2.1.0 Ggplot2 -- 3.3.4 Glue -- 1.4.2 GridExtra -- 2.3 Gtable -- 0.3.0 Isoband -- 0.2.4 Labeling -- 0.4.2 Lifecycle -- 1.0.0 Magrittr -- 2.0.1 MASS -- 7.3-54 Mgcv -- 1.8-36 Munsell -- 0.5.0 Pillar -- 1.6.1 R-Pkgconfig -- 2.0.3 R6 -- 2.5.0 RColorBrewer -- 1.1-2 Rlang -- 0.4.11 Scales -- 1.1.1 Tibble -- 3.1.2 Utf8 -- 1.2.1 Vctrs -- 0.3.8 ViridisLite -- 0.4.0 Withr -- 2.4.2
2021-10-01Configuration: GCC not linking to system libunwind (crashed GCC's build)Boud Roukema-1/+10
This commit provides a hack/correction to the unwrapped GCC source files that sym-links the generic file 'libgcc/unwind-generic.h' to the two directories in which a file includes "unwind.h" or <unwind.h>. The aim is that the gcc compilation system uses this header file from the internal gcc source files instead of searching for a system-level file 'unwind.h'. This commit also unaliases two 'ls' commands in some build recipes of 'basic.mk' in case the host system (normally at user level) has aliased the command to something like 'ls -F'. In the situation that sometimes occurs of library files being given executable status, the '-F' decorative option could lead to an asterisk being included in a string that is not expected to contain asterisks. If the system shell does not contain the 'alias' command at all, then a fallback of 'true' should provide safe behaviour. The notation of the 'sed' command is also clarified. This solves bug #61240: https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?61240
2021-07-12Configuration: fixed bugs in building of OpenSSL and GettextMohammad Akhlaghi-4/+5
Until now, the 'RPATH' variable (specifying where to look for shared libraries) wasn't being set in the 'libcrypto' library of OpenSSL (it was only set for the 'libssl' library). Also, Gettext used the host Emacs for some operations during installation that could cause the following crash (because we are giving priority to local libraries, which the host Emacs doesn't recognize): emacs: /BDIR/libcrypto.so.1.1: version `OPENSSL_1_1_1b' not found (required by /lib64/libk5crypto.so.3) With this commit both these bugs have been fixed: 1) Patchelf is run on the 'libcrypto' library also and 2) we pass the '--without-emacs' configuration option to the configure script of Gettext. These bugs were found by Elham Saremi.
2021-06-25Configuration: New check to see if /dev/shm allows executionBoud Roukema-27/+61
On systems that allow it (like GNU/Linux systems), Maneage will build the necessary software in shared memory (a directory that is actually in the RAM, not on an SSD/HDD, on GNU/Linux systems, it is '/dev/shm'). This allows Maneage to operate faster and not harm the HDD/SSD with all the temporary writing of many small files. Until now, we would only check that this directory exists and that it has enough space. However, some systems also set the 'noexec' flag on shared memory for security reasons [1]. This causes Maneage to crash upon building of the software in later phases. With this commit, at the very start of the configuration step, and after all other shared-memory checks are done, a dummy executable script file is created there and its execution is tested. If it doesn't work, shared memory will not be used at all. In the process, the steps dealing with the software building directory in the configure script have been brought in one place and comments were added to further clarify every step. This commit was initially done by Boud Roukema and later edited by Mohammad Akhlaghi. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20210624192819/https://serverfault.com/questions/72356/how-useful-is-mounting-tmp-noexec
2021-06-03Configuration: improved warning when TeX Live couldn't be installedBoud Roukema-8/+12
Once a year, the texlive update system becomes incompatible with the version from the previous year. Since a texlive install failure is considered non-fatal by 'high-level.mk', so until now, the user could miss the printed message and mistakenly believe that the configure is valid. This commit explicitly adds a 10-second delay that should be enough for a user who does the 'configure --existing-conf' step alone to notice that there is a TeX Live problem. It also adds the explicit instruction of how to allow an update from an earlier year's texlive installer to the warning message (by deleting '.build/software/tarballs/install-tl-unx.tar.gz'). I had to rediscover this a few times for old Maneage installs. Also, a few lines in 'reproduce/software/shell/configure.sh' were indented with a TAB (that is not recommended because TAB is displayed with different widths on different browsers). So while doing this commit, those TABs were also converted to a space.
2021-03-28Configuration: corrected check of group nameMohammad Akhlaghi-5/+5
When built in 'group' mode, the write permissions of all created files will be activated for a certain group of users in the host operating system. The user specifies the name of the group with the '--group' option at configure time. At the very start, the './project' script checks to see if the given group name actually exists or not (to avoid hard-to-debug errors popping up later). Until now, the checking 'sg' command (that was used to build the project with group-writable permissions) would always fail due to the excessive number of redirections. Therefore, it would always print the error message and abort. With this commit, the output of 'sg' is no longer re-directed (which also helps users in debuggin). If the group does actually exist, it will just print a small statement saying so, and if it fails, the error message is printed. This fixed the problem, allowing maneage to be built in group-mode. I also noticed that the variable name keeping the group name ('reproducible_paper_group_name') used the old name for the project (which was "Reproducible paper template"! So it has been changed/corrected to 'maneage_group_name'.
2021-03-24Maneage installation: removed TCL as a dependency of SWIGMohammad Akhlaghi-1/+2
Until now the SWIG software would use the host operating system's packages to find the TCL configuraiton (which we don't install yet in Maneage). In particular, you can see the error during its configuration here: .... checking for pkg-config... pkg-config checking for Tcl configuration... found /usr/lib/tclConfig.sh /usr/lib/tclConfig.sh: line 2: dpkg-architecture: command not found /usr/lib//tcl8.6/tclConfig.sh: line 2: dpkg-architecture: com. not found With this commit, TCL has been disabled when building SWIG with the '--without-tcl' option. Later, when we add TCL in Maneage, we can remove this option.
2021-03-20Configuration: nullability-completeness warnings suppressedRaul Infante-Sainz-3/+13
With a recent update of macOS systems (macOS Big Sur 11.2.3 and Xcode 12.4), there are many warnings when building C programs (for example the simple program we compile to check the compiler, or some of the software like `gzip'). It prints hundreds of warning lines for every source file that are irrelevant for our builds, but really clutters the output. With this commit, these warnings are disabled by adding `-Wno-nullability-completeness' to the 'CPPFLAGS' environment variable. This has also been added to the very first check of the C compiler in the configure step.
2021-03-20Configuration: --debug option available in this phase alsoRaul Infante-Sainz-12/+36
Until now, each time there was a problem in the configuration of Maneage'd projects and debugging was necessary, we had to take the following changes: - Run the configuration on a single thread ('-j1') to see the building of only the problematic software. - Disable the Zenodo check manually by commenting those parts of 'reproduce/software/shell/configure.sh'. Because the internet connection wastes a few seconds and is thus very annoying during repeated runs! - Manually remove the '-k' option that was passed to Make (when building the software). With the '-k', Make keeps going with the execution of other targets if something crashes and this usually causes confusions during the debugging. Doing the manual changes within the code was both very annoying and prone to errors (forgetting to correct it!). With this commit, the existing '--debug' option has been generalized to the software configuration phase of Maneage also. Until now, it was only available in the analysis phase (and would directly be passed to the 'make' command that would run the analysis). When this option is used, and the project is in the software configuration phase, the Zenodo check won't be done, it will use one single thread ('-j1'), and it will stop the execution as soon as an error occurs (Make is not run with '-k').
2021-02-12Installation: minor correction in links to system librariesMohammad Akhlaghi-2/+6
Until now when making a link to the system's 'dl' and 'pthread' libraries we were simply linking the installed location on the system (in '/usr/lib'). However, in some systems, these may themselves be links to other locations and this could cause linking problems. With this commit, we now use 'realpath' to extract the absolute address of the final file that the libraries may link to, and directly link to them. A minor cosmetic correction was also made in the build rule for CFITSIO: the long line was broken into two!
2021-01-09IMPORTANT: analysis outputs written in BDIR/analysisMohammad Akhlaghi-33/+44
Until now, the build directory contained a 'software/' directory (that hosted all the built software), a 'tex/' subdirectory for the final building of the paper, and many other directories containing intermediate/final data of the specific project. But this mixing of built software and data is against our modularity and minimal complexity principles: built software and built data are separate things and keeping them separate will enable many optimizations. With this commit, the build directory of the core Maneage branch will only contain two sub-directories: 'software/' and 'analysis/'. The 'software/' directory has the same contents as before and is not touched in this commit. However, the 'analysis/' directory is new and everything created in the './project make' phase of the project will be created inside of this directory. To facilitate easy access to these top-level built directories, two new variables are defined at the top of 'initialize.mk': 'badir', which is short for "built-analysis directory" and 'bsdir', which is short for "built-software directory". HOW TO IMPLEMENT THIS CHANGE IN YOUR PROJECT. It is easy: simply replace all occurances of '$(BDIR)' in your project's subMakefiles (except the ones below) to '$(badir)'. To confirm if everything is fine before building your project from scratch after merging, you can run the following command to see where 'BDIR' is used and confirm the only remaning cases. $ grep -r BDIR reproduce/analysis/* --> make/verify.mk: innobdir=$$(echo $$infile | sed -e's|$(BDIR)/||g'); \ --> make/initialize.mk:badir=$(BDIR)/analysis --> make/initialize.mk:bsdir=$(BDIR)/software --> make/initialize.mk: $$sys_rm -rf $(BDIR) --> make/top-prepare.mk:all: $(BDIR)/software/preparation-done.mk 'BDIR' should only be present in lines of the files above. If you see '$(BDIR)' used anywhere else, simply change it to '$(badir)'. Ofcourse, if your project assumes BDIR in other contexts, feel free to keep it, it will not conflict. If anything un-expected happens, please post a comment on the link below (you need to be registered on Savannah to post a comment): https://savannah.nongnu.org/task/?15855 One consequence of this change is that the 'analysis/' subdirectory can be optionally mounted on a separate partition. The need for this actually came up for some new users of Maneage in a Docker image. Docker can fix portability problems on systems that we haven't yet supported (even Windows!), or had a chance to fix low-level issues on. However, Docker doesn't have a GUI interface. So to see the built PDF or intermediate data, it was necessary to copy the built data to the host system after every change, which is annoying during working on a project. It would also need two copies of the source: one in the host, one in the container. All these frustrations can be fixed with this new feature. To describe this scenario, README.md now has a new section titled "Only software environment in the Docker image". It explains step-by-step how you can make a Docker image to only host the built software environment. While your project's source, software tarballs and 'BDIR/analysis' directories are on your host operating system. It has been tested before this commit and works very nicely.
2021-01-05Configuration: GNU Binutils linking bug on some systems fixedMohammad Akhlaghi-1/+1
Until now, when building GNU Binutils on GNU Linux operating systems, we would simply put a link to the host's core C library components (the '*crt*' files). However, the symbolic link wasn't "forced"! So if it already existed in the build directory, it would crash. With this commit a '-f' option has been added to the 'ln' command and this fixed the problem. This bug was reported by Zahra Sharbaf.
2021-01-04Building of Less program now uses patchelf to ensure good linkingMohammad Akhlaghi-0/+3
After correctly setting Less to depend on 'ncurses', I noticed its still not linking to Maneage's 'ncurses', but pointing to my host system's 'ncurses' (that happens to have the same version! So it would crash on a system with a different version). This shows that like some other software, we need to manually correct the RPATH inside Less. With this command, the necessary call to 'patchelf' has been added and with it, the installed 'less' command properly linked to Maneage's internal build of 'ncurses'.
2021-01-04Building of less software depends on ncursesMohammad Akhlaghi-1/+1
Until now, the 'less' software package (used to view large files easily on the command-line and used by Git for things like 'git diff' or 'git log') only depended on 'patchelf' (which is a very low-level software). However, as Boud reported in bug #59811 [1], building less would crash with an error saying "Cannot find terminal libraries" in some systems (including the proposed Docker image of 'README.md' which I confirmed afterwards). Looking into the 'configure' script of 'less', I noticed that 'less' is actually just checking for some functions provided by the ncurses library! With this commit, 'less' depends on 'ncurses'. I was able to confirm that with this change, 'less' successfully builds within the Docker image. [1] https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?59811
2021-01-02Copyright year updated in all source filesMohammad Akhlaghi-57/+57
Having entered 2021, it was necessary to update the copyright years at the top of the source files. We recommend that you do this for all your project-specific source files also.
2020-12-09Configuration: not settting C_INCLUDE_PATH on macOSRaul Infante-Sainz-2/+9
Until now, when building the high-level (optional) software, we would give both 'CPPFLAGS' and 'C_INCLUDE_PATH' the same value/directory in 'high-level.mk'. But we recently found that on macOS's C compiler ('clang'), if a directory is included in both 'CPPFLAGS' and 'C_INCLUDE_PATH', then that directory is ignored in 'CPPFLAGS' (which has higher priority). This caused linking problems when the version of a software on the host was different from the Maneage version. With this commit, 'C_INCLUDE_PATH' is not set on macOS any more and this fixed the problem on the reported systems. This bug was fixed with the help of Mohammad Akhlaghi and Mahdieh Navabi.
2020-12-02Less is now built as a basic softwareMohammad Akhlaghi-0/+13
Less is rarely used in non-interactive mode and is primarily intended for interactively viewing large files. So its need within Maneage (for batch processing) wasn't often felt until now. However, when running './project shell' (which completely closes-off the outside environment), or building a Maneage'd project within a minimal container that doesn't have less, it becomes hard to use Git (and in particular its 'diff' output which depends on 'less'). With this commit, Less has been added as a dependency of Git in 'basic.mk'. In total its built product is roughly 800KB and builds within a second or two. So it isn't a burden on any project. But it can be very useful when the projects are being developed within the Maneage environment itself.
2020-12-01Installation: m4 no longer depends on TexinfoMohammad Akhlaghi-29/+67
In a recent build on a macOS, we recognized that Texinfo needs the 'libintl.h' headers of Gettext. However, Gettext depends on M4, and until now we had set M4 to depend on Texinfo. Therefore adding Gettext as a dependency of Texinfo would cause a circular dependency. On the macOS, we temporarily disabled M4's Texinfo dependency, and the build went through. I also checked on my GNU/Linux system: temporarily renamed all Texinfo built files from my system and done a clean build of M4 and it succeeded. To be further safe, I built Maneage from this commit (where M4 doesn't depend on Texinfo) in a Docker container, and it went through with no problems. So the current M4 version indeed doesn't need Texinfo. I think adding Texinfo as a dependency of M4 was a historic issue from the early days. In the process, I also cleaned 'basic.mk' a little: - A "# Level N" comment was added on top of each group of software that can be built in parallel (generally). - GNU Nano was moved to the end of the file (to be "Level 6"). - Some comments were edited in some places.
2020-10-02TexLive's xstring package is now necessaryMohammad Akhlaghi-4/+4
After a fresh build of Maneage with a newly downloaded TeXLive, I noticed that it is complaining about not finding 'xstring.sty', apparently some package that depeneded on it is no longer including it itself! It is thus now added to the packages that are built by Maneage's TeXLive.
2020-09-24Gnuastro's analysis configuration files removedMohammad Akhlaghi-1/+0
Until now, the core Maneage branch included some configuration files for Gnuastro's programs. This was actually a remnant of the distant past when Maneage didn't actually build its own software and we had to rely on the host's software versions. This file contained the configuration files specific to Gnuastro for this project and also had a feature to avoid checking the host's own configuration files. However, we now build all our software ourselves with fixed configuration files (for the version that is being installed and its version is stored). So those extra configuration files were just extra and caused confusion and problems in some scenarios. With this commit, those extra files are now removed. Also, two small issues are also addressed in parallel with this commit: - When running './project make clean', the 'hardware-parameters.tex' macro file (which is created by './project configure' is not deleted. - The project title is now written into the default output's PDF's properties (through 'hypersetup' in 'tex/src/preamble-header.tex') through the LaTeX macro. All these issues were found and fixed with the help of Samane Raji.
2020-09-15Checking Xcode installation for macOS systemsRaul Infante-Sainz-1/+60
Until now, during the configure step it was checked if the host Operative System were GNU/Linux, and if not, we assumed it is macOS. However, it can be any other different OS! With this commit, now we explicity check if the system is GNU/Linux or Darwin (macOS). If it is not any of them, a warning message says to the user that the host system is different from which we have checked so far (and invite to contact us if there is any problem). In addition to this, if the system is macOS, now it checks if Xcode is already installed in the host system. If it is not installed, a warning message informs the user to do that in case a problem/crash in the configure step occurs. We have found that it is convenient to have Xcode installed in order to avoid some problems.
2020-09-09R is built without tcl/tk (for GUI) dependenceBoud Roukema-0/+19
Tcl/Tk are a set of tools to provide Graphic User Interface (GUI) support in some software. But they are not yet natively built within Maneage, primarily because we have higher-priority work right now. GUI tools in general aren't high on our priority list right now because GUI tools are generally good for human interaction (which is contrary to the reproducible philosophy), not automatic analysis (a core concept in reproducibility). So even later, when we do include Tcl/Tk in Maneage, their direct usage will be discouraged. Until this commit, because we don't yet build Tcl/Tk, the default maneage install of the statistical package R failed on a Debian Stretch, with 6227 repeats of the line: '/usr/lib//tcl8.5/tclConfig.sh: line 2: dpkg-architecture: command not found' To fix this problem (atleast until Tcl/Tk is installed within Maneage), R is now configured with the '--without-tcltk' option which fixed the problem. Please see the description above the R installation instructions in 'reproduce/software/make/high-level.mk' for more.
2020-09-08Removed all occurances of IFS in low-level scriptsMohammad Akhlaghi-3/+3
Following the previous commit, we recognized that the 'IFS' terms are not necessary and can be even cause problems. So all their occurances in the scripts of Maneage have been removed with this commit.
2020-09-07Software installation: removed IFS statements in pre-make-build.shMohammad Akhlaghi-4/+4
Until a recent commit, the IFS='"' was added at the start of the variables in this shell script and as a result, the SPACE character wasn't being used as a delimiter. This caused a major problem when downloading the tarballs (all the backup servers were considered as the top link). With this commit we removed these 'IFS' statements). Because we now check for the existance of meta-characters in the build directory name, there is no more problem, and also generally both the calling command and internally, we have double-qutations around the variable names. So removal of IFS will not affect the result in this scenario. This bug was found by Mohammadreza Khellat.
2020-08-28Plain text editors: nano in basic, emacs and vim in high-levelMohammad Akhlaghi-7/+74
While a project is under development, the raw analysis software are not the only necessary software in a project. We also need tools to all the edit plain-text files within the Maneaged project. Usually people use their operating system's plain-text editor. However, when working on the project on a new computer, or in a container, the plain-text editors will have different versions, or may not be present at all! This can be very annoying and frustrating! With this commit, Maneage now installs GNU Nano as part of the basic tools. GNU Nano is a very simple and small plain text editor (the installed size is only ~3.5MB, and it is friendly to new users). Therefore, any Maneaged project can assume atleast Nano will be present (in particular when no editor is available on the running system!). GNU Emacs and VIM (both without extra dependencies, in particular without GUI support) are also optionally available in 'high-level.mk' (by adding them to 'TARGETS.conf'). The basic idea for the more advanced editors (Emacs and VIM) is that project authors can add their favorite editor while they are working on the project, but upon publication they can remove them from 'TARGETS.conf'. A few other minor things came up during this work and are now also fixed: - The 'file' program and its libraries like 'libmagic' were linking to system's 'libseccomp'! This dependency then leaked into Nano (which depends on 'libmagic'). But this is just an extra feature of 'file', only for the Linux kernel. Also, we have no dependency on it so far. So 'file' is not configured to not build with 'libseccomp'. - A typo was fixed in the line where the physical core information is being read on macOS. - The top-level directories when running './project shell' are now quoted (in case they have special characters).
2020-08-27Machine architecture and byte-order available as LaTeX macroMohammadreza Khellat-125/+227
Until now, no machine-related specifications were being documented in the workflow. This information can become helpful when observing differences in the outcome of both software and analysis segments of the workflow by others (some software may behave differently based on host machine). With this commit, the host machine's 'hardware class' and 'byte-order' are collected and now available as LaTeX macros for the authors to use in the paper. Currently it is placed in the acknowledgments, right after mentioning the Maneage commit. Furthermore, the project and configuration scripts are now capable of dealing with input directory names that have SPACE (and other special characters) by putting them inside double-quotes. However, having spaces and metacharacters in the address of the build directory could cause build/install failure for some software source files which are beyond the control of Maneage. So we now check the user's given build directory string, and if the string has any '@', '#', '$', '%', '^', '&', '*', '(', ')', '+', ';', and ' ' (SPACE), it will ask the user to provide a different directory.
2020-08-08Software tarballs saved as symlinks if already in filesystemMohammad Akhlaghi-5/+18
Until now, if the software source tarballs already existed on the system they would be copied inside the project. However, the software source tarballs are sometimes/mostly larger than their actual product and can consume significant space (~375 MB in the core branch!). With this commit, when the software are present on the system, their symbolic link will be placed in 'BDIR/software/tarballs', not a full copy. Also, because the tarballs in software tarball directory may themselves be links, we use 'realpath' to find the final place of the actual file and link to that location. Therefore if 'realpath' can't be found (prior to installing Coreutils in Maneage), we will copy the tarballs from the given software tarball directory. After Maneage has installed Coreutils, the project's own 'realpath' will be used. Of course, if the software are downloaded, their full downloaded copy will be kept in 'BDIR/software/tarballs', nothing has changed in the downloading scenario.
2020-08-08IMPORTANT: New software versions (17 basic, 16 high-level and 7 Python)Mohammad Akhlaghi-170/+187
It was a long time that the Maneage software versions hadn't been updated. With this commit, the versions of all basic software were checked and 17 of that had newer versions were updated. Also, 16 high-level programs and libraries were updated as well as 7 Python modules. The full list is available below. Basic Software (affecting all projects) --------------------------------------- bash 5.0.11 -> 5.0.18 binutils 2.32 -> 2.35 coreutils 8.31 -> 8.32 curl 7.65.3 -> 7.71.1 file 5.36 -> 5.39 gawk 5.0.1 -> 5.1.0 gcc 9.2.0 -> 10.2.0 gettext 0.20.2 -> 0.21 git 2.26.2 -> 2.28.0 gmp 6.1.2 -> 6.2.0 grep 3.3 -> 3.4 libbsd 0.9.1 -> 0.10.0 ncurses 6.1 -> 6.2 perl 5.30.0 -> 5.32.0 sed 4.7 -> 4.8 texinfo 6.6 -> 6.7 xz 5.2.4 -> 5.2.5 Custom programs/libraries ------------------------- astrometrynet 0.77 -> 0.80 automake 0.16.1 -> 0.16.2 bison 3.6 -> 3.7 cfitsio 3.47 -> 3.48 cmake 3.17.0 -> 3.18.1 freetype 2.9 -> 2.10.2 gdb 8.3 -> 9.2 ghostscript 9.50 -> 9.52 gnuastro 0.11 -> 0.12 libgit2 0.28.2 -> 1.0.1 libidn 1.35 -> 1.36 openmpi 4.0.1 -> 4.0.4 R 3.6.2 -> 4.0.2 python 3.7.4 -> 3.8.5 wcslib 6.4 -> 7.3 yaml 0.2.2 -> 0.2.5 Python modules -------------- cython 0.29.6 -> 0.29.21 h5py 2.9.0 -> 2.10.0 matplotlib 3.1.1 -> 3.3.0 mpi4py 3.0.2 -> 3.0.3 numpy 1.17.2 -> 1.19.1 pybind11 2.4.3 -> 2.5.0 scipy 1.3.1 -> 1.5.2
2020-08-08Configuration fail if gfortran necessary, but not built or availableBoud Roukema-25/+41
When the host C compiler is used (either by calling '--host-cc' or on OSs that we can't build the GNU C Compiler), Maneage will also not build the Fortran compiler 'gfortran'. Until now, the './project configure' script would give a big warning about the need for 'gfortran' and the fact that it is missing, and would for 5 seconds, but it would continue anyway. For projects that don't need 'gfortran', this can be confusing to the users and for those that need 'gfortran', it means that a lot of time and cpu cycles are wasted compiling non-fortran software that are unusable in the end. With this commit, the 'need_gfortarn' variable has been added 'reproduce/software/shell/configure.sh', in a new part that is devoted to project-specific features. If it equals '0', then the 'gfortran' test (and message!) isn't done at all, but if it is set to '1', then the configure stage will halt immediately gfortran is not found and not built. The default operations of the core Maneage branch don't need 'gfortran', so by default it is set to 0. But 'gfortran' is necessary for all projects that use Numpy (Python's numeric library) for example. So if your project needs 'gfortran', please set this new variable to 1. As mentioned in the comments of 'configure.sh', ideally we should detect this automatically, but we haven't had the time to implement it yet.
2020-08-02OpenMPI build with slurm compatibilityBoud Roukema-1/+4
Prior to this commit, compilation of OpenMPI used the default OpenMPI choices of deciding which libraries should be used in relating to a job scheduler [1] (such as Slurm [2]). Given that the user on a multi-user cluster has to accept the sysadmin's choice of a job scheduler, the question of whether to (1) link with OpenMPI's own libraries (and increase the reproducibility of the science project) or rather (2) link with the sysadmin managed libraries (more likely to be compatible with the host's job scheduler), is an open question of which the best strategy for reproducibility needs to be debated and studied. In this commit, strategy (1) is adopted. The options '--withpmix=internal' and '--with-hwloc=internal' are added to the configure command. The working assumption is that the Maneage version of OpenMPI is likely to be modern enough to be compatible with the native job scheduler such as Slurm. Compilation without any 'pmix' option gave a fail in at least one case; it appears that an external pmix library was sought by the configure script. As of OpenMPI 4.0.1, the internal libevent library is used by default, so there appears to be no option to force it to be chosen internally. This commit also includes the option '--without-verbs'. This option removes a library related to "infiniband", "verbs", "openib" and "BTL"; this library appears to be deprecated. See [3], [4] for discussion. Please add feedback and discussion to the Maneage task about openmpi linking strategies (1) (internal) and (2) (external) at Savannah [5]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_scheduler#Batch_queuing_for_HPC_clusters [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slurm_Workload_Manager - To avoid a name clash, 'slurm-wlm' is the metapackage in Debian for the client commands, the compute node daemon, and the central node daemon. An unrelated package 'slurm' also exists. [3] https://www-lb.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=openfabrics#ofa-device-error [4] https://www-lb.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=building [5] https://savannah.nongnu.org/task/index.php?15737
2020-07-07Fixed typo that lead to crash when building healpyMarius Peper-1/+1
Until now, if a project needed the healpy software package, Maneage would crash with the following error message (abridged for full name in build directory). This was caused by a typo in the version of 'healpix' (the dependency of 'healpy'). make: *** No rule to make target '.../version-info/proglib/healpix-' With this commit, the typo in line 334 of 'python.mk' is fixed, so that when '$(ipydir)/healpy-$(healpy-version)' gets called it correctly searches for a rule to make '$(ibidir)/healpix-$(healpix-version)'.
2020-07-05Configure script prefers clang for macOS systemsMohammad Akhlaghi-96/+129
In the previous commit (Commit 1bc00c9: Only using clang in macOS systems that also have GCC) we set the used C compiler for high-level programs to be 'clang' on macOS systems. But I forgot to do the same kind of change in the configure script (to prefer 'clang' when we are testing for a C compiler on the host). With this commit, the compiler checking phases of the configure script have been improved, so on macOS systems, we now first search for 'clang', then search for 'gcc'. While doing this, I also noticed that the 'rpath' checking command was done before we actually define 'instdir'!!! So in effect, the 'rpath' directory was being set to '/lib'! So with this commit, this test has been taken to after defining 'instdir'.
2020-07-05Only using clang in macOS systems that also have GCCMohammad Akhlaghi-27/+58
Until now, when Maneage was built on a macOS that had both a clang and GCC, we would make links to both. But this cause many conflicts in some high-level programs (for example Numpy and etc, all the programs where we have explicity set 'export CC=clang' before the build recipe). This happens because the GCC that is built on a macOS isn't complete for some operations. To fix this problem, when we are on a macOS, we explicity set 'gcc' to point to 'clang' and 'g++' to point to 'clang++'. We also don't link to the host's C-preprocessor ('cpp') on macOS systems because this is only a GNU feature and using the GNU CPP is also known to have some basic problems. For example this was reported by Mahdieh Nabavi (which was the main trigger for this work): ld: Symbol not found: ___keymgr_global Referenced from: /Users/Mahdieh/build/software/installed/bin/cpp Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib Also, to avoid linking to another link on the host tools (in the 'makelink' function of 'basic.mk'), we are now using 'realpath'.
2020-07-01Properly accounting for space characters in host's PATHMohammad Akhlaghi-12/+20
Until now, when reading the host's PATH environment variable we weren't accounting for directory names with a space character. This was most prominently visible in the 'low-level-links' step where we put links to some core system components into the project's build directory (mainly for prorietary systems like macOS). To address the problem, double quotations have been placed around the part that we extract 'ccache' from the PATH, and the part where we make the symbolic link. In the process the comments above 'makelink' were made more clear and 'low-level-links' now depends on 'grep' (which is the highest-level program it uses). This bug was reported by Mahdieh Navabi.
2020-07-01Minor typo corrected in referencing LibidnRaul Infante-Sainz-1/+2
Until this commit, once Libidn was installed, insted of its own name and version, the name and version of Libjpeg were saved (in the target if Libidn). This robably come from a copy/paste of the rule. With this commit, this minor bug has been corrected. I also added my name as an author of `reproduce/software/make/xorg.mk' Makefile since I added some code there.
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.
2020-06-30Core 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).
2020-06-27IMPORTANT: 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.
2020-06-18Fixed 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.
2020-06-17Software 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.
2020-06-17Corrected 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'.
2020-06-16XLSX 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.