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2023-09-24Maneage'd AASTeX for American Astronomical Society journalsMohammad Akhlaghi-87/+62
Until now, the core Maneage branch was very generic and customizing for each separate journal required some time to prepare the LaTeX style. With this commit, a first attempt at customization of Maneage for the LaTeX styles of the AAS journals (AASTeX) has been implemented.
2023-05-07Copyright years: updated to 2023, accompanied by some minor fixesMohammad Akhlaghi-8/+8
SUMMARY: just house-cleaning, no need to do anything major in your branch. Just update the copyright years in files that you have added. Until now, the latest copyright years of the whole Maneage source code was 2022! As of this commit, we have already moved to 2023 for 5 months! Furthermore, there were a few other minor issues that needed correction: - The URL to download input datasets wasn't quoted in 'initialize.mk' or the download script! As a result, when the input URL had characters that are meaningful to the shell (like '&'), the download command would not work. - The only program that had 'make check' in the 'basic.mk' programs was MPFR. At that stage, we still haven't built our own compiler at this stage, this is not accurate. - The 'pyerfa' and 'extension-helpers' packages in Python need 'setuptools_scm' on some systems. But until now, it was not in the list of their prerequisites. With this commit, all the issues above have been corrected.
2022-09-02Added server authentication and FITS DATASUM for verficiationMohammad Akhlaghi-30/+95
SUMMARY: Nothing special is necessary for your existing projects. This commit just addds two new features (read the commit description for more): 1. To provide a user and password to servers that need authentication before they allow downloading of proprietary data, 2. To use the FITS Standard's DATASUM for file verification (for cases where the file is not static on the server, and is generated upon receiving your download request). Until now, Maneage didn't have any infrastructure for databases that require authentication (through a user or password, when calling 'wget'). Furthermore, when the downloaded file is automatically generated by the server upon request, the server usually adds metadata (like file date, or query number and etc) in the header. Therefore the simple SHA256 checksum of the file would differ on every download! This made it very hard to verify if the data (not headers) are unchanged. With this commit, both these problems have been addressed: - Server authentication: the 'reproduce/software/config/LOCAL.conf' now contains three new variables for this purpose. With them, you can give your username and password, along with the authentication method of the server. The comments on top of these three variables give a full description of their usage. - Verifying only the data in a file (ignoring the headers): The 'reproduce/analysis/config/INPUTS.conf' now accepts two new optional variables for each input file using the FITS standard's DATASUM convention: 'INPUT-%-fitsdatasum' and 'INPUT-%-fitshdu'. If the SHA256 isn't specified for a file, Maneage will use these to verify the file. With the latter, you specify the HDU of the data you want to verify and with the former you give the DATASUM value for that HDU. As the name suggests, this is only valid for FITS files. If we find other formats that support a similar behavior, we can add this feature for those formats also. This is also thoroughly discussed in the comments of 'reproduce/analysis/config/INPUTS.conf'. This commit was done with the help of Pedram Ashofte Ardakani, Sepideh Eskandarlou and Mohammadreza Khellat.
2022-06-19Initialize: including *.conf files from the preparation phaseRaul Infante-Sainz-17/+31
Until now, when some configuration files were generated in the preparation phase, only the auto-generated (in the preparation phase) Makefiles (with the suffix '*.mk') were always included in 'initialize.mk'. As a consequence, if there were any configuration files (with suffix '*.conf'), they would not be automatically added, and it was necessary to manually include them. Since auto-generated configuration files are also one common output of the preparation phase of a project, it is better to include them automatically. With this commit, the '*.conf' configuration files generated in the preparation phase are added by 'initialize.mk' automatically (if necessary). In the process, the comments in the final target of 'reproduce/analysis/make/prepare.mk' were updated to be more clear.
2022-06-11IMPORTANT: download.mk removed, content moved to initialize.mkMohammad Akhlaghi-110/+104
SUMMARY: no special action should be necessary; but its an important update in low-level Maneage infra-structure (related with downloading and setting input checksums). Until now, we had a separate 'download.mk' as one of the default sub-Makefiles that should have been loaded in all the 'top-*.mk' files after 'initialize.mk'. This was due to historic reasons: until Commit 91799fe4b6d, we had to manually make some changes in 'download.mk' for every input file we defined in 'INPUTS.mk' (which was very inconvenient, and not easily possible for a large number of files!). But since Commit 91799fe4b6d, those manual changes are no longer necessary, and a normal user will hardly ever need to touch the contents of 'download.mk' (which also had one effective rule). Furthermore, based on shared projects with Zohre Ghaffari and Sepideh Eskandarlou (which involved a large number of large files), we recognized that it is very inconvenient to download a file once, update its checksum, and re-run Maneage (so the validation works). A robust solution was necesary to let project authors download the data and automatically update the checksum. With this commit, to help in high-level project management in Maneage, the single, and generic rule of 'download.mk' has been moved to 'initialize.mk', enabling us to fully remove this extra sub-Makefile from Maneage's source. Furthermore, with this commit, a usable solution to the automatic updating of the checksum has also been implemented (which has been described in the comments of 'INPUTS.conf'): the users can now set the checksum to '--auto-replace--'. In this case, the download rule (now in 'initialize.mk') will automatically update that line of 'INPUTS.conf' and add the checksum instead. After './project make' is complete, when the user runs 'git diff', they can see all the updated checksums in the source of their project and commit the updated 'INPUTS.conf' into the source so this will not be necessary later. Two other smaller issues have also been addressed in this commit: - There was an extra ',' in the call to 'filter-out' when we defined 'prepare-dep' in 'reproduce/analysis/make/prepare.mk'. This would cause a crash (with Make complaining that there is no rule for target 'initialize.mk,': notice the extra ','). With this commit, that extra ',' has been removed and the problem was solved. - The build recipe of Imfit (in 'reproduce/software/make/high-level.mk'), had two SPACE characters after '--no-openmp' which would make the reading hard. They have been updated to one SPACE.
2022-06-10Housekeeping: some portability issues fixed; four software updatesMohammad Akhlaghi-4/+6
Until now, there were several portability issues in Maneage: 1. Maneage would crash on older operating systems (checked on Debian 6), where Wget didn't have the '--no-use-server-timestamps'. 2. On a Linux kernel 2.6.32 (of the same Debian 6 above) some features in 'util-linux' (like 'swapon' or 'libmount') wouldn't build and wouldn't let 'util-linux' complete. These features need root permissions to be useful, so the wouldn't be used in Maneage any way! But they wouldn't let Maneage get built 3. The './project shell' command would still read the host's '~/.bashrc', letting the host environment leak-in to Maneage's interactive shell. 4. The building of Flex 2.64 wouldn't complete due to a segmentation fault an Ubuntu, but NetPBM (which depends on Flex) would crash with a wrong usage of 'yyunput'. This had actually caused a non-update to Flex in a previous Maneage software update. 5. The update Astrometry.net would assume SExtractor's executable name is 'source-extractor'; causing a crash in usage. This forced the users to manually create a 'source-extractor' symbolic link in the '.local/bin' directory. 6. The 'reproduce/software/shell/tarball-prepare.sh' script (that is used for making Maneage-standard tarballs) wouldn't accept option values with an '=' between the option name and value! It also didnt' print sufficiently informative messages and errors (for example it would say "skipping ..." (making the user think there is a problem!), but it was actually that the file already existed! 7. The 'reproduce/analysis/make/prepare.mk' and 'reproduce/analysis/make/verify.mk' Makefiles that needed to reject some of the 'makesrc' sub-Makefiles would simply substitute their names with nothing. But this would cause problems when the name is part of the name of another sub-Makefile. 8. On the Debian 6 system mentioned above the raw 'df' command's output wasn't in the expected format; so Maneage would fail to properly detect the free space in the disk. With these commit, all the issues above have been solved: for 1, A check has been added to avoid using that option. For 2, those 'util-linux' features have been disabled. For 3, the '--norc' and '--noprofile' options have beed added to the call to Bash. For 4, see below. For 5, the symbolic link is now automatically made with SExtractor. For 6, the option reading components of that script have been fully re-written and more robust sanity checks are also added, with more informative warnings. For 7, the 'subst' function of Make was replaced with 'filter-out' and this fixed the problem. For 8, 'df' is called with the '-P' option so it has a unified format in all versions. For 4, the versions of 'flex' and 'netpbm' have been updated. Since they were the dependency of 'astrometrynet', that has also been updated. In the process, we discovered that 'lzip' has a new version which claims to be faster, so that is also updated. lzip 1.22 --> 1.23 astrometrynet 0.85 --> 0.89 flex 2.6.4 --> 2.6.4-410-74a89fd netpbm 10.73.39 --> 10.73.39 NetPBM needed some manual manipulation in its source (to remove the extra line), so the necessary steps have been added to its build recipe in 'reproduce/software/make/high-level.mk'.
2022-05-10initialize.mk: Git call in variable works with LD_LIBRARY_PATHMohammad Akhlaghi-10/+18
Until now, the '$(project-commit-hash)' Make variable of 'initialize.mk' simply called 'git' to find the commit hash. However, due to one of the recent software updates, we noticed that this command is no longer working (and the project commit hash wasn't getting printed in the PDF)! The problem was that Maneage's Git, couldn't find the 'libiconv' library that it was built with. With this commit, the '$(shell' command that calls Git, first exports 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH' to Maneage's software build directory. As a result, the Git command can work and will report the commit as a LaTeX macro to be used in the paper. To avoid relying on PATH outside of Make recipes, we now also directly call the Git executable with Maneage. Some other minor issues have been found and fixed in this commit: - README-hacking.md: some minor edits and typo corrections. - initialize.mk: the '$(curdir)' variable is now used in several places that we were calling 'pwd'. - versions.conf: 'xlsxio-version' now included with other programs. Until now it was commented because GCC 11.1.0 had issues with it. However, GCC 11.2.0 doesn't have a problem any more, so it has been returned to the list of all high-level programs. - xorg.mk: used same format to comment recipe lines as the other Makefiles (a '#' followed by a TAB). - preamble-pgfplots.tex: lines to comment for building an EPS figure with PGFPlots have been re-formatted to be more human-readable.
2022-05-08./project: make clean removes extra tex files in top source directoryPedram Ashofteh Ardakani-0/+6
Until now, the './project make clean' command would only clean (remove) the PDF file from the top source directory. However, if a user would run LaTeX outside of Maneage, many extra latex output such as *.aux, *.log, *.synctex and etc would be produced in the top source directory. These files can interfere with './project make'. With this commit, when './project make clean' is run, any possibly existing LaTeX temporary files will also be deleted from the top source directory. This problem was first reported by Matin Torkian.
2022-04-15IMPORTANT: more generic, robust and secure INPUTS.conf and download.mkMohammad Akhlaghi-33/+31
SUMMARY: it is necessary to update your 'INPUTS.conf' and 'download.mk'. Until now, adding an input file involved several steps that needed manual (and inconvenient!) intervention: for every file, you needed to define four variables in 'INPUTS.conf', and in 'reproduce/analysis/make/download.mk' you had to use a (complex for large number of files) shell 'if/elif/else' condition to link the names of the input files to those variables. Besides inconvenience, this could cause bugs (typos!). Furthermore, a basic MD5 checksum was used for verifying the files. With this commit, a new structure has been defined for 'INPUTS.conf' that (thanks to some pretty useful GNU Make features), removes the need for users to manually edit 'reproduce/analysis/make/download.mk', and reduces the number of variables necessary for each file to three (from four). Furthermore, we now use the SHA256 checksum for input data validation. Regarding the trick used in 'INPUTS.conf' (form the newly added description in 'download.mk'): In GNU Make, '.VARIABLES' "... expands to a list of the names of all global variables defined so far" (from the "Other Special Variables" section of the GNU Make manual). Assuming that the pattern 'INPUT-%-sha256' is only used for input files, we find all the variables that contain the input file names (the '%' is the filename). Finally, using the pattern-substitution function ('patsubst'), we remove the fixed string at the start and end of the variable name. Steps you need to take: - INPUTS.conf: translate your old format to the new format (after carefully reading the description in the comments at the start of the file). After applying the new standards, you don't need to use the variables of 'INPUTS.conf' directly in your Makefiles! For example if one of your input datasets is called 'abc.fits', the checksum variable will be 'INPUT-abc.fits-sha256' and in your high-level Makefiles, you can simply set '$(indir)/abc.fits' as a prerequisite (like you probably did already). - reproduce/analysis/make/download.mk: for the definition and rule of 'inputdatasets', simply use the Maneage branch, and remove anything you had added in your project. In the process, I also noticed that 'README-hacking.md' still referred to 'master' as the main project branch, while we have used 'main' in the paper (and is the common convention with Git).
2022-03-10Bug fix: wrong definition of the prepare directory is correctedRaul Infante-Sainz-1/+1
Until now, the definition of the prepare directory was wrong (not in the 'analysis' directory of the build directory). I noticed this after an update of the Maneage branch of one project that requires the prepare step. With this commit, this problem has been fixed.
2022-01-21IMPORTANT: Updates to almost all softwareMohammad Akhlaghi-254/+250
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
2021-04-17IMPORTANT: print-general-metadata new name for print-copyrightMohammad Akhlaghi-10/+18
Summary: - Use the new name of this variable in your Makefiles. - In 'metadata.conf', remove fixed URL prefixes for DOIs ('https://doi.org/') or arXiv ('https://arxiv.org/abs'). Until now, the Make variable that would print the general metadata (of whole project) into each to-be-published dataset was called 'print-copyright'! But it now does much more than simply printing the copyright, it will also print a lot of metadata like arXiv ID, Zenodo DOI and etc into plain-text outputs. The out-dated name could thus be misleading and cause confusions. With this commit, the variable is therefore called 'print-general-metadata'. After merging your project with the Maneage branch, please replace any usage of 'print-copyright' to 'print-general-metadata'. Also with this commit, 'README-hacking.md' mentions 'metadata.conf' and 'print-general-metadata' in the "Publication checklist" section and reminds you to keep the first up to date, and use the second in your to-be-published datasets.
2021-03-28Configuration: corrected check of group nameMohammad Akhlaghi-3/+3
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'.
2021-03-26Initialization: removed other Gnuastro-specific featuresMohammad Akhlaghi-8/+3
In the previous commit, some Gnuastro-specific initializations were removed but a few more cases remained that are removed with this commit.
2021-01-12Default LaTeX preamble: some packages moved to preamble-project.texMohammad Akhlaghi-1/+3
Until now, important LaTeX packages like 'caption' (for managing figure captions), 'hyperref' (for managing links) and 'xcolor' (for managing colors) were being loaded inside the optional 'tex/src/preamble-maneagge-defualt-style.tex' file. We recommend to remove this file from loading when you use custom journal sytels. However, these packages will often be necessary after loading special journal styles also. With this commit, these packages are now loaded into LaTeX as part of the 'tex/src/preamble-project.tex' file. This file is in charge of LaTeX settings that are custom to the project and independent of its style. Several other small corrections are made with this commit: - I noticed that './project make texclean' crashes if no PDF exists in the working directory! So a '-f' was added to the 'rm' command of the 'texclean' rule. - As part of the LaTeX Hyperref, we can set general metadata or properties for the PDF (that aren't written into the printable PDF, but into the file metadata). They can be viewed in many PDF viewers as PDF properties. Until now, we were only using the '\projecttitle' macro here to write the paper's title. However, thanks to the recently added 'reproduce/analysis/config/metadata.conf', we now have a lot of useful information that can also go here. So the 'metadata-copyright-owner' is now used to define the PDF author, and the project's 'metadata-git-repository' and commit hash are written into the PDF subject. But to import these, it was necessary to define them as LaTeX macros, hence the addition of these macros in 'initialize.mk'. - Some extra packages that aren't necessary to build the default PDF were removed in 'preamble-project.tex'.
2021-01-10make dist: removing temp files moved after project-specific filesMohammad Akhlaghi-6/+7
Until now, when you ran './project make dist', first it would delete the temporary files (like files ending in '~' or '.swp' created by some editors), then it had a place to add project-specific operations for the distribution. However, in the process of cleaning the temporary files, it would 'cd' into the directory that would later be packaged. So project-specific operations would first have to 'cd' back into the top source directory. This was prone to hard-to-find bugs. With this commit, to avoid the problem the project-specific operations are now placed before the cleaning phase. This is also technically good because in the project-specific operations there may also be temporary files that shouldn't go into the distribution tarball.
2021-01-09IMPORTANT: analysis outputs written in BDIR/analysisMohammad Akhlaghi-21/+34
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.
2021-01-02./project make: new texclean targetMohammad Akhlaghi-1/+6
Until now there was only a 'clean' (to delete all files created during the 'make' phase) and the 'distclean' (to delete all files during configuration and make). But sometimes we don't want to delete all the files created during the full 'make' phase, we only want to delete the files that were created by LaTeX for building the paper. Witht this commit, a new target has been added for this job. You can now run the following command for this job: ./project make texclean Only the files in '$(BDIR)/tex/build' will be deleted (and the 'tikz' directory under that location is recreated, ready for a future build).
2021-01-02Copyright year updated in all source filesMohammad Akhlaghi-8/+8
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.
2020-12-14Better warnings when maneage branch not present and PDF not builtMohammad Akhlaghi-12/+31
Until now, there was no warning when the 'maneage' branch didn't exist in the Git history. This can happen when you forget to push the 'maneage' branch to a remote for your project, and you later clone your project from that remote (for example on another computer). We use the 'maneage' branch to report the latest commit hash and date in the final paper (which can greatly help future readers). Since we check the 'maneage' branch on every run of './project make' (in 'initialize.mk') this would result in a printed statement like this: fatal: Not a valid object name maneage Also until now, the description of what to do when TeXLive wasn't installed properly wasn't complete: it didn't mention that it is necessary to delete the TeXLive target files. This could confuse users (they would re-run './project configure -e', but with no effect). With this commit, for the 'maneage' branch issue a complete warning will be printed. Telling the user what to do to get the 'maneage' branch (and thus fix this warning). Also, the LaTeX macros that go in the paper are now red when the 'maneage' branch doesn't exist, telling the user to see the printed warning (thus encouraging the user to get the branch). For the TeXLive issue, the necessary commands to run are now also printed in the warning.
2020-12-01Default paper: macros available for date of commits citedMohammad Akhlaghi-1/+5
Until now, Maneage only provided the commit hashes (of the project and Maneage) as LaTeX macros to use in your paper. However, they are too cryptic and not really human friendly (unless you have access to the Git history on a computer). With this commit, to make things easier for the readers, the date of both commits are also available as LaTeX macros for use in the paper. The date of the Maneage commit is also included in the acknowledgements. Also, the paragraph above the acknowledgements has been updated with better explanation on why adding this acknowledgement in the science papers is good/necessary.
2020-12-01IMPORTANT: organizational improvements in Maneage TeX sourcesMohammad Akhlaghi-2/+15
This only concerns the TeX sources in the default branch. In case you don't use them, there should only be a clean conflict in 'paper.tex' (that is obvious and easy to fix). Conflicts may only happen in some of the 'tex/src/preamble-*.tex' files if you have actually changed them for your project. But generally any conflict that does arise by this commit with your project branch should be very clear and easy to fix and test. In short, from now on things will even be easier: any LaTeX configuration that you want to do for your project can be done in 'tex/src/preamble-project.tex', so you don't have to worry about any other LaTeX preamble file. They are either templates (like the ones for PGFPlots and BibLaTeX) or low-level things directly related to Maneage. Until now, this distinction wasn't too clear. Here is a summary of the improvements: - Two new options to './project make': with '--highlight-new' and '--highlight-notes' it is now possible to activate highlighting on the command-line. Until now, there was a LaTeX macro for this at the start of 'paper.tex' (\highlightchanges). But changing that line would change the Git commit hash, making it hard for the readers to trust that this is the same PDF. With these two new run-time options, the printed commit hash will not changed. - paper.tex: the sentences are formatted as one sentence per line (and one line per sentence). This helps in version controlling narrative and following the changes per sentence. A description of this format (and its advantages) is also included in the default text. - The internal Maneage preambles have been modified: - 'tex/src/preamble-header.tex' and 'tex/src/preamble-style.tex' have been merged into one preamble file called 'tex/src/preamble-maneage-default-style.tex'. This helps a lot in simply removing it when you use a journal style file for example. - Things like the options to highlight parts of the text are now put in a special 'tex/src/preamble-maneage.tex'. This helps highlight that these are Maneage-specific features that are independent of the style used in the paper. - There is a new 'tex/src/preamble-project.tex' that is the place you can add your project-specific customizations.
2020-11-15Building final PDF: pdf-build-final has to be given an explicit yesMohammad Akhlaghi-10/+10
Until now, when the 'pdf-build-final' configuration variable (defined in 'reproduce/analysis/config/pdf-build.conf') was given any string a PDF would be built. This was very confusing, because people could put a 'no' and the PDF would still be built! With this commit, only when this variable has a value of 'yes' will the PDF be built. If given any other string (or no string at all), it will not produce a PDF. This issue was reported by Zahra Sharbaf.
2020-10-18Recipes for final initialize and verify targets not on stdoutMohammad Akhlaghi-4/+11
The LaTeX macro files for these two subMakefiles are created on every run of './project make'. So their commands are also printed every time and hardly ever will a normal user want to modify or change these. So to avoid populating the standard output of a Maneaged project with all these extra lines every time (possibly getting mixed with the important analysis or LaTeX outputs), an '@' has been placed at the start of the recipes. With an '@' at the start of the recipe, Make is instructed to not print the commands it wants to run in the standard output.
2020-09-24Gnuastro's analysis configuration files removedMohammad Akhlaghi-5/+2
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.
2020-08-27Machine architecture and byte-order available as LaTeX macroMohammadreza Khellat-4/+5
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.
2020-08-02initialize.mk: accounting for no maneage branchBoud Roukema-3/+8
One of the LaTeX macros reported by 'initialize.mk' is the git commit hash of the most recent 'maneage' branch that the project has been branched from. However, not all projects will retain the maneage reference. This can happen for example when people don't push the 'maneage' reference to their repository and then clone from their own repository to a second computer. Therefore, until now, in such situations, Maneage would break with an error. With this commit, in such scenarios, a place holder string is used instead, clearly highlighting that there is no 'maneage' reference.
2020-07-21Printing location when downloaded input data checksum is differentBoud Roukema-0/+1
There are many different directory trees involved in Maneage system: the top directory, the 'reproduce/' directory and its sub-directories, '.build/' (that point to a user-defined build area), and a possibly user-defined input directory. Until now, in the case of a download checksum failure, it was not immediately obvious [1] to the user *where* the file with a failed checksum is. To clarify to the user *where* the suspicious file is now located, this commit adds a line to 'reproduce/analysis/make/download.mk' to print out this full path location: '$$unchecked' along with the expected and calculated checksums. [1] Euphemism for me spending lots of time debugging and being confused.
2020-07-20README-hacking.md: clarify Zenodo usage in publication checklistBoud Roukema-2/+2
This commit clarifies the initial usage of Zenodo for reserving a Zenodo identifier and starting an 'unpublished' upload. Some other minor wording changes are done here.
2020-07-20make dist: only archive files that are under version controlBoud Roukema-17/+31
Until this commit, the '$(project-package-contents)' rules in 'reproduce/analysis/make/initialize.mk' included a line to provide all contents, recursively, of the directory 'reproduce/' in the package for further distribution. This could potentially lead to the distribution of private working files that are used during development and not intended for general distribution. With this commit, only those files in 'reproduce/' and 'tex/src' that are under version control are copied to the temporary directory (that is later used for creating an archive). With this change, the archiving commands actually became more clean (we don't have to manually remove 'LOCAL.conf' or other temporary files). Extensive comments have also been added above each step to clarify each step's purpose and method.
2020-07-07Project distribution tarball can account for no PDFs in tex/tikzMohammad Akhlaghi-1/+6
Until now the './project make dist' command implicitly assumed that the 'tex/tikz' directory always contains PDF files (because of the 'cp tex/tikz/*.pdf $$dir/tex/tikz' line). This was annoying for projects that don't use TiKZ or PGFPlots to generate their plots, and they had to manually comment this line. With this commit a check has been placed to see if any PDF files exist in there at all. If there aren't PDF files, the 'cp' command above is ignored.
2020-07-05Removing possibly existing paper.bbl before remaking itMohammad Akhlaghi-0/+6
Until now, when the bibliography file ('paper.bbl') had a LaTeX-related error (for example the journal name was a LaTeX macro that isn't defined), the first 'pdflatex' command that is run before 'biber' would crash, not allowing the project to reach 'biber'. So the user would have to manually remove 'paper.bbl' before running './project make'. With this commit, we remove any possibly existing 'paper.bbl' file before rebuilding it. Generally, this also helps in keeping things clean during the generation of the new bibliography. This bug was found by Mahdieh Nabavi.
2020-07-04Commit hash of Maneage branch used to build project as LaTeX macroMohammad Akhlaghi-0/+6
To help in the documentation, the Git hash of the Maneage branch commit that the project has most recently merged with (or branched from) is now also provided as a LaTeX macro ('\maneageversion'). It is calculated in 'reproduce/analysis/make/initialize.mk' (in the recipe to 'initialize.tex').
2020-07-04Better names and comments in INPUTS.confMohammad Akhlaghi-8/+9
Until now, the dataset's configuration names had a 'WFPC2' prefix. But this very alien to anyone that is not familiar with the history of the Hubble Space Telescope (the camera is no longer used! Its just used here since its one of the standard FITS files from the FITS standard webpage). With this commit the variable names have been modified to be more readable and clear (having a 'DEMO-' prefix). Also the comments of 'INPUTS.conf' (describing the purpose of each variable) were edited and made more clear.
2020-06-30The distclean target accounts for non-existance of git hooksMohammad Akhlaghi-1/+1
Until now, when the user wanted to complete remove all built files (including software), the './project make distclean' command would fail if the git hooks weren't installed. They are present when the project's configuration has been successfully finished, but this bug can happen when trying to re-do an incomplete build. With this commit, this is fixed by adding an '-f' has been added before the 'rm' command for the Git hooks.
2020-06-19Removing 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-11/+15
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-66/+216
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.
2020-05-22Corrected copyright notices to fit GPL suggested formatMohammad Akhlaghi-65/+89
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.
2020-04-20Maneage instead of Template in README-hacking.md and copyright noticesMohammad Akhlaghi-83/+65
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/+4
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.
2020-02-01IMPORTANT: 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.