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Re: [RESEND PATCH v6 4/5] Include group information to xml syscall files.


Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> writes:

> On 05/20/2016 04:10 AM, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote:
>> Patch 4/5 bounced due to size. Resending with -M to detect renames...
>
> Thanks, that's the right thing to do, even without bounces.  Best is
> to adjust the git config to make that the default.

>

Hi Pedro,

Thanks for your comments,

> On 05/20/2016 04:10 AM, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote:
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/gdb/syscalls/apply-defaults.xsl
>> @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
>> +<!-- Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>> +
>> +     Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
>> +     are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
>> +     notice and this notice are preserved.  -->
>> +
>
> Shouldn't this file be GPLv3+ like all other build or source files?

Yes, it should. I went with the no-brainer option and copied the
copyright header from the syscall files.  I fixed it in v7.

v7 also includes the changes you suggested below.  Please, let me know
your thoughts on that one.

Thanks,

>> We maintain linux-defaults.xml.in, a template file to hold generic group
>> information.  It is used by the XSL script that parses the architecture
>> specific files to generate the final xml files, which are actually
>> installed and loaded by GDB.  The script is not run during the normal
>> build process, only when building in maintainer mode.
>
>> +@MAINTAINER_MODE_TRUE@%.xml: %.xml.in apply-defaults.xsl linux-defaults.xml.in
>> +@MAINTAINER_MODE_TRUE@	$(XSLTPROC) -o $(SYSCALLS_SRCDIR)/$@ $(SYSCALLS_SRCDIR)/apply-defaults.xsl $<;\
>> +
>
> Please always define the rules in the Makefile.in even without
> maintainer mode.  What you want is force the _dependencies_ when maintainer
> mode is active, but leave them out otherwise.
> That would make it possible to force-regenerate the files even when
> not using maintainer mode.
>

> See e.g.,: gdb/Makefile.in:
>
> $(srcdir)/aclocal.m4: @MAINTAINER_MODE_TRUE@ $(aclocal_m4_deps)
> ...


>
> So that'd be something like:
>
> %.xml: @MAINTAINER_MODE_TRUE@ %.xml.in apply-defaults.xsl linux-defaults.xml.in
> 	$(XSLTPROC) -o $(SYSCALLS_SRCDIR)/$@ $(SYSCALLS_SRCDIR)/apply-defaults.xsl $<;\
>
> It'd be convenient to add a rule to regenerate all xml files, something like:
>
> .PHONY syscall-xml
> syscall-xml: $(SYSCALLS_FILES)
>
> .PHONY clean-syscall-xml
> clean-syscall-xml: $(SYSCALLS_FILES)
> 	rm -f $(SYSCALLS_FILES)
>
> Thanks,
> Pedro Alves
>
>

-- 
Gabriel Krisman Bertazi

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