Hi,
I am stuck in a similar problem recent days by chance.
I am just curious about the purpose of introduction of these *_shipped
file, are they just for user's convenience when user doesn't install the
those tools?
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Sincerely,
Cao jin
On 08/19/2017 04:49 PM, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> In Linux build system convention, we do not run tools such as
> flex, bison, gperf during the kernel building. Instead, manage
> generated C files in the repository with _shipped suffixes.
> They are simply shipped (copied) removing the _shipped suffixes
> during the kernel building.
>
> Commit 7373f4f83c71 ("kbuild: add implicit rules for parser generation")
> added a mechanism to regenerate intermediate C files easily.
> The build rules are surrounded with ifdef REGENERATE_PARSERS.
> So, we need to pass REGENERATE_PARSERS=1 from the command line
> when we want to update them.
>
> Here is one question. Is it acceptable to use those rules all the time?
> That is, generate those C files by flex, bison, gperf during the
> kernel building.
>
> This means, the build system depends on more external tools.
>>From the users' point of view, they will need to install
> flex, bison, gperf in order to build the kernel.
>>From the developers' point of view, the advantage is
> we do not need to version-control generated files, i.e. _shipped files
> will be deleted.
>
> I'd like to know if this is acceptable or not.
>
> For example, currently some files are simply shipped (copied)
> when building the kconfig program.
>
> $ make mrproper; make defconfig
> HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep
> HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o
> SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c
> SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.lex.c
> SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.hash.c
> HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o
> HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/conf
> *** Default configuration is based on 'x86_64_defconfig'
> #
> # configuration written to .config
> #
>
> With this series, they are created from *real* sources
> (*.y, *.l, *.gperf files).
>
> $ make mrproper; make defconfig
> HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep
> HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o
> YACC scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c
> LEX scripts/kconfig/zconf.lex.c
> GPERF scripts/kconfig/zconf.hash.c
> HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o
> HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/conf
> *** Default configuration is based on 'x86_64_defconfig'
> #
> # configuration written to .config
> #
>
> Note:
> The tool versions in Documentation/process/changes.rst are just
> place-holders for now. We need to figure out the minimal versions
> if we like to switch to this approach.
>
>
>
> Masahiro Yamada (3):
> kbuild: generate *.hash.c during build
> kbuild: generate *.lex.c during build
> kbuild: generate *.tab.c and *.tab.h during build
>
> Documentation/process/changes.rst | 36 +
> scripts/Makefile.lib | 26 +-
> scripts/dtc/Makefile | 6 +-
> scripts/dtc/dtc-lexer.lex.c_shipped | 2259 ---------------------------
> scripts/dtc/dtc-parser.tab.c_shipped | 2303 ----------------------------
> scripts/dtc/dtc-parser.tab.h_shipped | 125 --
> scripts/genksyms/Makefile | 4 +-
> scripts/genksyms/keywords.hash.c_shipped | 230 ---
> scripts/genksyms/lex.lex.c_shipped | 2291 ---------------------------
> scripts/genksyms/parse.tab.c_shipped | 2394 -----------------------------
> scripts/genksyms/parse.tab.h_shipped | 119 --
> scripts/kconfig/Makefile | 1 +
> scripts/kconfig/zconf.hash.c_shipped | 297 ----
> scripts/kconfig/zconf.lex.c_shipped | 2473 ------------------------------
> scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c_shipped | 2471 -----------------------------
> 15 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 14982 deletions(-)
> delete mode 100644 scripts/dtc/dtc-lexer.lex.c_shipped
> delete mode 100644 scripts/dtc/dtc-parser.tab.c_shipped
> delete mode 100644 scripts/dtc/dtc-parser.tab.h_shipped
> delete mode 100644 scripts/genksyms/keywords.hash.c_shipped
> delete mode 100644 scripts/genksyms/lex.lex.c_shipped
> delete mode 100644 scripts/genksyms/parse.tab.c_shipped
> delete mode 100644 scripts/genksyms/parse.tab.h_shipped
> delete mode 100644 scripts/kconfig/zconf.hash.c_shipped
> delete mode 100644 scripts/kconfig/zconf.lex.c_shipped
> delete mode 100644 scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c_shipped
>
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