Testing has shown that vfork() is actually significantly
more efficient on systems where it's supported, even for
copy-on-write implementations. If make is big enough,
duplicating the page tables is significant overhead.
* configure.ac: Check for fork/vfork.
* makeint.h: Include vfork.h and set up #define for it.
* os.h, posixos.c (get_bad_stdin): For children who can't use
the normal stdin file descriptor, get a broken one.
* job.c (start_job_command): Avoid so many ifdefs and simplify
the invocation of child_execute_job()
(child_execute_job): move the fork operation here so it can
return early for the parent process. Switch to use vfork().
* function.c (func_shell_base): Use new child_execute_job() and
simplify ifdefs.
* job.h, main.c, remote-cstms.c, vmsjobs.c, w32os.c: Update
declarations and calls.
* Makefile.am, configure.ac: Check for pselect() and sys/select.h.
* main.c (main): Block SIGCHLD if we have pselect() support.
* posixos.c (jobserver_acquire): If we support pselect() then use
it to query the jobserver pipe, while also listening for SIGCHLD.
Also pselect() supports a timeout so avoid alarm() calls.
This cannot be a perfect solution because there are always other
possible places EINTR can happen, including external libraries
such as gettext, Guile etc.
* configure.ac: Test for isatty() and ttyname()
* makeint.h: provide a substitute for ttyname() if it's not available.
* config.ami.template, config.h-vms.template, config.h.W32.template:
define/undefine HAVE_ISATTY/HAVE_TTYNAME macros.
* NEWS, doc/make.texi: Document these new variables.
* tests/config-flags.pm.in: A new file containing variable assignments
for the test suite; these variables are set by configure to contain
the values detected there for compilers, flags, etc.
* tests/run_make_tests.pl: Require the config-flags.pm file
* tests/scripts/features/load, tests/scripts/features/loadapi: Use the
configure-provided values when building the shared test library.
* configure.ac: Replace tests/config-flags.pm.in
* Makefile.am: Make sure tests/config-flags.pm is up to date
Rename existing ChangeLog files so they won't be distributed.
Add targets to maintMakefile to generate ChangeLog from the Git
repository. This will require a version of gnulib be available.
Because ChangeLog is auto-generated, we have to switch our
automake mode to "foreign" or it will complain and fail.
On 04/30/2013 05:11 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> * configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Here. The future major Automake
> version 2.0 (ETA about one, one and half year from now) will likely
> enable them by default, so better prepare ourselves.
>
Please drop this patch. Enabling 'subdir-objects' would require
sublter changes to several other parts of the build system that I
don't know how to test properly. We should only enable the
'silent-rules' option for the moment. The updated patch below
does this.
Sorry for the noise,
Stefano
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From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:30:04 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] build: enable the 'silent-rules' automake options
* configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Here. The future major Automake
version 2.0 (ETA about one, one and half year from now) will enable
it by default, so better prepare ourselves.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Older versions of those tools should be considered fully obsolete.
Also, GNU make already requires Gettext >= 0.18.1, which has been
released six months after Automake 1.11.1 and two years after
Autoconf 2.62; so the new requirement shouldn't be problematic
for people already bootstrapping GNU make from the Git repository.
* configure.ac (AC_PREREQ): Require Autoconf 2.62 or later.
(AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Require Automake 1.11.1 or later (1.11 had
some serious bugs, and should not be used).
Copyright-paperwork-exempt: yes
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
GCC was giving us warnings, most OS's now just run fork() when you call
vfork(), and looking at the standard definition of vfork() we are a long way
from using it safely anyway: you're not allowed to even call a function before
you exec().
GNU make already assume C89 or later throughout the codebase, and
that preprocessor conditional was no longer used anyway.
* configure.ac: Remove AC_DEFINE of HAVE_ANSI_COMPILER.
* config.ami.template: Remove #define of HAVE_ANSI_COMPILER.
* config.h-vms.template: Likewise.
* config.h.W32.template: Likewise.
* configh.dos.template: Likewise.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
We've required support for ANSI C (ISO C 89) or better for quite a while. Get
rid of the old varags.h, doprnt() stuff and simply assume ANSI C variadic
function capability and basic C runtime library support (vfprintf, vsprintf,
etc.)
