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Improve build automation #28

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creachadair opened this issue Dec 6, 2018 · 0 comments
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Improve build automation #28

creachadair opened this issue Dec 6, 2018 · 0 comments
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Right now the project is built with make. However, the current build setup has several unfortunate properties, including:

  1. It uses ambient toolchains,
  2. It hard-codes various GCC-specific compiler flags, some of which drift by version,
  3. It doesn't readily support cross-compilation and cross-testing.

Some of these things could be fixed by rewriting (and modernizing) the Makefile, but I actually think Make is the wrong tool. On the other hand, I also believe it's important for the library to be easily pulled out and hacked up into a new build environment, without deep connections to the environment I use to develop it. On that basis, I will probably not consider using Bazel.

One option is to build everything in Docker (see commit 899e202 for a nod in that general direction). That would let us keep the Make-based build but use containerization to ensure a stable build environment. Another option is djb redo, which has a recent decent reimplementation here.
@creachadair creachadair self-assigned this Dec 6, 2018
@creachadair creachadair added enhancement build Issues with building from source labels Dec 6, 2018
creachadair added a commit that referenced this issue Dec 21, 2018
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Add a make rule for doc.md from doc.md.in.
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The doc.md file is now generated from doc.md.in, via a rule that uses the
mkdoc.py script.  The rule depend on the headers so that it will get updated
when they change.

As a sleazy hack, I made doc.md a dependency of the test target to ensure it
gets run. This will do till I set up better automation (see #27 and #28).

Serves in partial satisfaction of #30.
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