Ticket #389 (closed bug: fixed)

Opened 9 years ago

Last modified 9 years ago

Build system should refrain from trying to detect user space upon request

Reported by: lilrc Assigned to:
Priority: major Milestone:
Component: generic Version: FFADO SVN (trunk)
Keywords: build system, feature request, patch Cc:
The device the bug applies to:

Description

Currently the build system of FFADO tries to detect the user space type (32bit/64bit) by examining /bin/mount, but this causes issues when compiling the source from a chroot (when /bin/mount well may be built for x86_64, or not even available, but the library should be 32bit). This has happened, see for example [1]. Thus I have written a patch that adds a "DETECT_USERSPACE" variable to the SConstruct script. The default (to detect userspace) is preserved, but having a flag allows disabling the detection and disable appending machine flags (-m32,-m64).

In Gentoo, where I am a maintainer, this patch is required to enable so called multilib support, that is building both 32bit and 64bit binaries and libraries (on the same machine). Sure we could use the DIST_TARGET option, but that option would require much more work downstream as it would force us to use per-architecture logic in the script. With the DETECT_USERSPACE flag all "magic" can be handled by our package manager, without any per-arch logic.

I would like to emphasize that no default is changed and that no other flag is removed. The patch merely adds a flag and makes detection conditional preventing machine flags from being appended when DETECT_USERSPACE=False. I would apprecieate if you could consider applying the patch upstream. If you have any questions or suggestions, please let me know! Anyway, here is the patch

Index: SConstruct
===================================================================
--- SConstruct	(revision 2584)
+++ SConstruct	(working copy)
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@
     BoolVariable( "BUILD_STATIC_TOOLS", "Build a statically linked version of the FFADO tools.", False ),
     EnumVariable('DIST_TARGET', 'Build target for cross compiling packagers', 'auto', allowed_values=('auto', 'i386', 'i686', 'x86_64', 'powerpc', 'powerpc64', 'none' ), ignorecase=2),
     BoolVariable( "ENABLE_OPTIMIZATIONS", "Enable optimizations and the use of processor specific extentions (MMX/SSE/...).", False ),
+    BoolVariable( "DETECT_USERSPACE", "Try to detect the user space and add necessary machine flags.", True ),
     BoolVariable( "PEDANTIC", "Enable -Werror and more pedantic options during compile.", False ),
     BoolVariable( "CUSTOM_ENV", "Respect CC, CXX, CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS and LDFLAGS.\nOnly meant for distributors and gentoo-users who want to over-optimize their build.\n Using this is not supported by the ffado-devs!", False ),
     ( "COMPILE_FLAGS", "Deprecated (use CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS with CUSTOM_ENV=True instead).  Add additional flags to the environment.\nOnly meant for distributors and gentoo-users who want to over-optimize their build.\n Using this is not supported by the ffado-devs!" ),
@@ -783,25 +784,26 @@
 if '-msse2' in opt_flags:
     env['USE_SSE2'] = 1
 
-m32 = is_userspace_32bit(cpuinfo)
-print 'User space is %s' % (m32 and '32-bit' or '64-bit')
-if cpuinfo.is_powerpc:
-    if m32:
-        print "Doing a 32-bit PowerPC build for %s CPU" % cpuinfo.ppc_type
-        machineflags = { 'CXXFLAGS' : ['-m32'] }
-    else:
-        print "Doing a 64-bit PowerPC build for %s CPU" % cpuinfo.ppc_type
-        machineflags = { 'CXXFLAGS' : ['-m64'] }
-    env.MergeFlags( machineflags )
-elif cpuinfo.is_x86:
-    if m32:
-        print "Doing a 32-bit %s build for %s" % (cpuinfo.machine, cpuinfo.model_name)
-        machineflags = { 'CXXFLAGS' : ['-m32'] }
-    else:
-        print "Doing a 64-bit %s build for %s" % (cpuinfo.machine, cpuinfo.model_name)
-        machineflags = { 'CXXFLAGS' : ['-m64'] }
-        needs_fPIC = True
-    env.MergeFlags( machineflags )
+if env['DETECT_USERSPACE']:
+    m32 = is_userspace_32bit(cpuinfo)
+    print 'User space is %s' % (m32 and '32-bit' or '64-bit')
+    if cpuinfo.is_powerpc:
+        if m32:
+            print "Doing a 32-bit PowerPC build for %s CPU" % cpuinfo.ppc_type
+            machineflags = { 'CXXFLAGS' : ['-m32'] }
+        else:
+            print "Doing a 64-bit PowerPC build for %s CPU" % cpuinfo.ppc_type
+            machineflags = { 'CXXFLAGS' : ['-m64'] }
+        env.MergeFlags( machineflags )
+    elif cpuinfo.is_x86:
+        if m32:
+            print "Doing a 32-bit %s build for %s" % (cpuinfo.machine, cpuinfo.model_name)
+            machineflags = { 'CXXFLAGS' : ['-m32'] }
+        else:
+            print "Doing a 64-bit %s build for %s" % (cpuinfo.machine, cpuinfo.model_name)
+            machineflags = { 'CXXFLAGS' : ['-m64'] }
+            needs_fPIC = True
+        env.MergeFlags( machineflags )
 #=== End Revised CXXFLAGS =========================================
 
 

[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/proaudio@lists.tuxfamily.org/msg05791.html

Thanks in advance,
Karl

Change History

03/21/15 23:45:44 changed by jwoithe

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to fixed.

Since the default behaviour is not altered by this change I am happy to commit this. However, I have altered the option name from "DETECT_USERSPACE" to "DETECT_USERSPACE_ENV" since I think this gives slightly more clarity as to what it does. Committed in r2585.

03/22/15 00:26:53 changed by lilrc

Thank you very much!