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2023-05-07Copyright years: updated to 2023, accompanied by some minor fixesMohammad Akhlaghi-70/+72
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-0/+43
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.
2022-08-13IMPORTANT: Software updateMohammad Akhlaghi-341/+913
SUMMARY: This is a software update to make Maneage more portable and up to date. It does not involve any Maneage infrastructure changes. You should just re-build your project to make sure the updated software haven't removed/changed any of their features that you were using. In particular, for Astrometry.net users, please see the respective note in P.S.2 below. Until now, there have been many updates in the software that are built within Maneage. The last software upadte was almost one year ago. With this commit, the software in the P.S.1 have been updated. A description of notable changes in the software environment is given in P.S.2. This software environment has been tested on an Arch GNU/Linux, Debian, CentOS-7 and macOS. This commit is the merging of 24 individual commits by Raul Infante-Sainz (who put a lot of energy on porting the software below for macOS, and updating citations), Boudewijn Roukema (who helped with memory checking for GCC, and testing on Debian and CentOS), Sepideh Eskandarlou (who tested the environment) and myself. Besides the updates in the core software, the followimg improvements have also been implemented in this commit: - When you run './project shell': - A welcome message is printed that will remind the caller that they have entered a new environment, it will print the location of 'HOME' and the location of the shell startup file. - The 'reproduce/software/shell/bashrc.sh' is loaded as a startup file. This allows you to customize your interactive Maneage shell. A default step has already been placed there that will put the git branch name (in green) within the shell prompt (which was purple). This greatly helps when dealing with directories under Git version control. These settings won't bother with Maneage's default operations: through environment variables we make sure that these './project shell' features will not slow-down the calls to the shell within the non-interactive Make calls. - The host's 'COLORTERM' is passed to the Maneage environment. It is used by some programs that can have color outputs on the terminal. - Updates to citations: - Numpy and Scipy (as requested on their pages): https://numpy.org/citing-numpy and https://scipy.org/citing-scipy - Gnuastro: Added https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.11230 which describes major updates to Gnuastro after 10 releases. - When a software's paper is indexed in the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS), Maneage now use the BibTeX entries provided by ADS. This helps to give a unified format to most software, and more information (like ADS+arXiv hyperlinks in the BibLaTeX compilation of the default bibliography). - We were able to build this version of Maneage on a Debian system from 2010 (+12 years ago!). Only three downgrades were necessary in the "basic" software (not affecting the high-level science software!). A description of the necessary downgrades for such old systems has been added in 'README.md'. P.S.1 List of updated software: Basic software: cURL 7.79.1 --> 7.84.0 Dash 0.5.11.5 --> 0.5.11-057cd65 File 5.41 --> 5.42 GNU AWK 5.1.0 --> 5.1.1 GNU Bash 5.1.8 --> 5.2-rc2 GNU Binutils 2.37 --> 2.39 GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) 11.2.1 --> 12.1.0 GNU Findutils 4.8.0 --> 4.9.0 GNU Gzip 1.11 --> 1.12 GNU Help2man 1.48.5 --> 1.49.2 GNU Integer Set Library (ISL) 0.18 --> 0.24 GNU Libtool 2.4.6 --> 2.4.7 GNU Nano 6.0 --> 6.4 GNU Readline 8.1.1 --> 8.2-rc2 GNU libiconv 0.16 --> 0.17 Git 2.36.0 --> 2.37.1 OpenSSL 3.0.0 --> 3.0.5 PatchELF 0.13 --> 0.15.0 Perl 5.34.0 --> 5.36.0 High-level software: Astrometry.net 0.89 --> 0.91 CFITSIO 4.0.0 --> 4.1.0 CMake 3.21.4 --> 3.24.0 GNU Astronomy Utilities (Gnuastro) 0.16.1 --> 0.18 GPL Ghostscript 9.55.0 --> 9.56.1 HDF5 1.10.5 --> 1.13.1 Libjpeg 9d --> 9e Libtiff 4.3.0 --> 4.4.0 OpenBLAS 0.3.18 --> 0.3.21 PLplot n/a --> 5.15.0 Python 3.10.0 --> 3.10.6 SCAMP 2.6.7 --> 2.10.0 SWarp 2.38.0 --> 2.41.5 Util-Linux 2.37.2 --> 2.38.1 Vim 8.2 --> 9.0 WCSLIB 7.7 --> 7.11 X.org packages (used by graphical software like Ghostscript and LaTeX): Fontconfig 2.13.94 --> 2.14.0 LibX11 1.7.2 --> 1.8 LibXCB 1.14 --> 1.15 XCB-proto 1.14.1 --> 1.15 Xorg-proto 2021.5 --> 2022.1 Python modules: Astropy 5.0 --> 5.1 GalSim 2.3.3 --> 2.3.5 P.S.2: Notable points regarding the software environment: - Two new links from the host's low-level tools are now included in Maneage's build environment: - On GNU/Linux systems, the host's 'ldd' is linked inside the custom environment. This belongs to the GNU C Library (which is not yet installed in Maneage). But helps in checking the linking status of the binaries on GNU/Linux systems. - On macOS: the 'codesign' binary is included, which is used by GNU Emacs on macOS to sign the built executable. - GNU Bison has been moved in basic software (necessary for GNU Binutils). - The Zip and Unzip programs have been moved as high-level software that have to be manually requested when necessary. This is because they are not used by any of the basic software anymore. They were just installed as dependencies of GNU Tar to be close the other compression programs. Also, in the past we would use the original tarballs, and some (for example Numpy) were distributed in Zip format. However, by default, we now use a custom Lzip tarball and don't need Zip or Unzip. This was suggested by Zahra Sharbaf and Raul Infante-Sainz. - Some minor edits in 'reproduce/software/shell/tarball-prepare.sh'. In particular the 'awk' command was effectively just replacing a '_' with '-', so it just uses a simple SED expression instead. - Fixed bug 62700 (https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?62700) by compiling 'xz' with a patched version of the xz source file 'src/liblzma/liblzma.map'. - Astrometry.net doesn't depend on NetPBM any more. NetPBM (and its dependencies) were causing many crashes on macOS and it also a very strange build system that is hard to maintain. Astrometry.net uses it to take images as input. However, it isn't necessary when you provide Astrometry.net with a catalog. Therefore, Raul added some instructions on how to run astrometry from your own custom X-Y catalog. These instruction can be seen on top of the build rule of Astrometry.net in 'reproduce/software/make/high-level.mk'. - h5py has been removed as a dependency of Astropy. It is an optional dependency to write tables into HDF5 format. But since we couldn't get it to build on macOS it has been removed. None of the current Maneage users/developers also use this feature of Astropy! - PLplot is added a new software, but not a default pre-requisite of SCAMP (which can use it to generate figures), because there were many build problems on macOS. Instructions have been added on top of SCAMP on how to add PLplot as a dependency. - With the aim of being able to install Plplot on macOS, we have wrote several lines to fix header problems. However, we didn't succeed. In any case we are leaving these lines in case they are useful in the future. - The '-Wno-nullability-completeness' compiler flag (which is primarily necessary for macOS) is now only added for macOS systems. It was causing many warnings of un-recognized option in GNU/Linux systems. - The 'mkswap' program of Util-Linux has been disabled because it caused crashes on older kernels. Generally, its not necessary for a Maneage project because it needs root permissions to run! - LibXT (of the x.org software) has been added as a dependency of Cairo. - ImageMagick and Lzip were using the host's C++ standard library! But on GNU/Linux we build our own C++ Standard Library with GCC, so with this commit, they properly link with Maneage's C++ standard library. - ImageMagick on macOS couldn't properly link with Maneage's Ghostscript library! This has been fixed using macOS's install_name_tool. - Necessary RAM to build GCC on GNU/Linux systems changed to ~8GB, see https://savannah.nongnu.org/task/?16244#comment12 - Pythran is no longer as prerequisite of Scipy. Until now, Pythran was a prerequisite of Scipy. But we noticed that it is optional and was causing problems on macOS. - The URLs of some of the software have been updated in 'reproduce/software/config/urls.conf'. By default, these are all commented, but they can be useful when searching for new versions or when a project needs custom software that is not (yet) in Maneage.
2022-07-13Configuration: astropy added as a dependency of astrometry.netMohammad Akhlaghi-0/+1
Until now, astrometry.net didn't explicitly depend on Astropy! However, astrometry.net does depend on it (or pyfits) and will crash later when running if astropy or pyfits aren't installed. We hadn't noticed this until now because of the data reduction projects we had built Astropy independently of astrometry.net! We noticed this bug in a project that didn't use astropy! With this commit, astropy is built as a dependency of astrometry.net and afterwards (during the analysis), astrometry.net was able to run without any crash. This bug was found with the help of Zohreh Ghaffari.
2022-06-11Configuration: replacing hard coded PATH in SConsRaul Infante-Sainz-2/+35
Until now, SCons (a high-level Python package builder) was using the OS PATH when building packages (like Imfit that use SCons), not Maneage's PATH. This happened even though 'reproduce/software/make/high-level.mk' completely removes the host's PATH to avoid any host OS dependency. After some investigation, we recognized that SCons hard-codes operating system directories into its source! This doesn't let the user (Maneage in this case; that builds packages that use SCons) customize the search directories. As a result, even though we have our own linker and compiler in Maneage, SCons would go and use the operating system's linker and compiler, causing a leak in the controlled environment we plan to achieve in Maneage. Not letting users customize such critical components of a software and hard-coding parameters is bad program design! This wasn't noticed until now because most operating systems we tested on were relatively recent and the versions of Maneage's linker and the OS linker weren't too different! However, after testing on a much older operating system (GNU/Linux 4.4.0-143-generic X86_64), the operating system's linker couldn't build Imfit (that uses SCons) and would crash. With this commit, after unpacking SCons's source (but before building or installing it), we have added a step to modify SCons's source and replace the hard-coded PATH directories with Maneage's PATH. This fixed the problem. This bug has been fixed with the help of Mohammad Akhlaghi.
2022-06-11IMPORTANT: download.mk removed, content moved to initialize.mkMohammad Akhlaghi-3/+3
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.
2022-06-10Configuration: num Apple M1 cores, ImageMagick dep. on GhostScriptRaul Infante-Sainz-4/+15
Until now, we never had the opportunity of testing Maneage in a macOS laptop with an Apple M1 CPU (tested on macOS Monterey; version 12.3). The way of getting the number of cores for this type of CPU is different from other macOSs. It was therefore necessary to change the parameters of the 'sysctl' for properly accounting this CPU. Furthermore, until now, GhostScript and ImageMagick were built independently. However, they were not linked. As a consequence, when trying to obtain an image with the program 'convert' (that belongs to ImageMagick'), it complains about not having some fonts. This can be fixed by letting 'ImakeMagick' know that 'GhostScript' libraries are available. With this commit, GhostScript has been set as a dependency of ImageMagick, and ImageMagick is configured with the '--with-gslib' flag. Furthermore, to read the number of M1 CPU cores, we distinguish between the Apple M1 and all other CPU types. However, Maneage still does not successfully build all the software until the end of the configure step. There are other problems that need to be fixed for Apple's M1.
2022-06-10Housekeeping: some portability issues fixed; four software updatesMohammad Akhlaghi-49/+132
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'.
2022-05-15Configuration: necessary compiler flag added for file in CentOS 7Manuel Solimano-0/+1
Until now, Maneage failed to build the 'file' program on at least one machine running CentOS version 7.9.2009 (with Linux kernel 3.10.0, and GCC 4.8.5) when running './project configure'. With this commit (as suggested by the error message issued by the compiler), the '-std=c99' is passed to the compiler in the 'file' recipe (within 'basic.mk'). This flag puts the compiler in C99 mode, which forces it to compile code according to the 1999 edition of the C standard. This was necessary for older versions of GCC (for example GCC 4.8.5 was released in June 2015); hence why others hadn't reported this issue until now. After this fix, File compiles succesfully on such systems; without causing any problem with newer GCC versions (tested in GCC 12.1.0). This issue was solved with the help of Pedram Ashofte Ardakani and Mohammad Akhlaghi.
2022-05-10initialize.mk: Git call in variable works with LD_LIBRARY_PATHMohammad Akhlaghi-9/+6
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.
2022-04-20Updated 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).