@feeley This isn't actually with gambit per se; when building gambit from source for fedora, the fedora build process is adding (among a large # of other flags) a CFLAG telling the linker to use a custom script that adds a so-called "package note" to the output binaries that can be used for bug reports. That linker script is available at time of building gambit (it's generated as part of the build process), but when using gambit on a system that it wasn't built on, that linker script doesn't exist. So it's more about how gambit is generating the contents of gambuild-C I think. It's easy enough to remove inappropriate flags directly from the file as part of the package spec. Though I may be misunderstanding; I was also going to try to rebuilt Gambit with FLAGS_* explicitly set to see if it would take those instead of taking the various flags that were used to compile gambit.
I see a bunch of .in files that appear to be the source to that file, was going to have a look there and see if there's any way I can change how the package is being built to get the flags out of gambuild-C without any changes to gambit
@tck42 I don’t think the
configure script copies the current setting of CFLAGS into the makefiles and the gambuild-C script. So when a Scheme file is compiled by gsc it should only be using (implicitly) the setting of CFLAGS at that moment, i.e. there is no relationship with the build environment.
On the 4.9.3 system I first noticed this on, those flags are indeed hardcoded into gambcomp-C (these are the packages supplied by Fedora); overriding with for instance "CFLAGS= gsc test.scm" also had no effect, though if I remove the single flag directly from gambcomp-C it did fix the issue. I'm guessing I can also override via gsc switch, but my goal is to get the package creating a gsc and gambuild-C that uses the flags as close to the rpm build system's set of flags (some hardening flags) but also removing anything that won't properly work on the build system itself (ie this flag that is referencing a linker script that does not get packaged into the rpm).
Same for the 4.9.4 I built myself - it seems to be setting those in the file from some combination of the CFLAGS, LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS that are around when configure gets run (I think).
-Wl,-dT,/builddir/build/BUILD/.package_note-gambit-c-4.9.3-7.fc36.x86_64.ld
that file exists on the system that created the package, but does not (and I believe should not) get installed with the package on an end user fedora system
even if it was, it wouldn't be appropriate to use that linker file for binaries output by gsc - if gsc was used to generate another package, that file should be generated for that package, and the argument should be added to the flags in that package's spec (I think)
FLAGS_DYN="-Wl,-z,relro -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-z,now -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-ld -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -Wl,--build-id=sha1 -Wl,-dT,/builddir/build/BUILD/.package_note-gambit-c-4.9.3-7.fc36.x86_64.ld -O2 -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -fexceptions -g -grecord-gcc-switches -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -fstack-protector-strong -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -m64 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -Wno-unused -Wno-write-strings -Wdisabled-optimization -fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-trapping-math -fno-math-errno -fschedule-insns2 -fmodulo-sched -freschedule-modulo-scheduled-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -fPIC -fno-common -mpc64 -rdynamic -shared"
FLAGS_LIB="-Wl,-z,relro -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-z,now -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-ld -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -Wl,--build-id=sha1 -Wl,-dT,/builddir/build/BUILD/.package_note-gambit-c-4.9.3-7.fc36.x86_64.ld -O2 -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -fexceptions -g -grecord-gcc-switches -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -fstack-protector-strong -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -m64 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -rdynamic -shared"
FLAGS_EXE="-Wl,-z,relro -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-z,now -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-ld -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -Wl,--build-id=sha1 -Wl,-dT,/builddir/build/BUILD/.package_note-gambit-c-4.9.3-7.fc36.x86_64.ld -O2 -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -fexceptions -g -grecord-gcc-switches -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -fstack-protector-strong -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -m64 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -Wno-unused -Wno-write-strings -Wdisabled-optimization -fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-trapping-math -fno-math-errno -fschedule-insns2 -fmodulo-sched -freschedule-modulo-scheduled-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -fPIC -fno-common -mpc64 -rdynamic"
Sorry - the above was 4.93, below is 4.9.4 (I think they're identical
FLAGS_DYN="-Wl,-z,relro -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-z,now -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-ld -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -Wl,--build-id=sha1 -Wl,-dT,/home/tck42/rpmbuild/BUILD/gambit-4.9.4/.package_note-gambit-c-4.9.4-1.fc37.x86_64.ld -O2 -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -fexceptions -g -grecord-gcc-switches -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -fstack-protector-strong -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -m64 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -Wno-unused -Wno-write-strings -Wdisabled-optimization -fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-trapping-math -fno-math-errno -fschedule-insns2 -foptimize-sibling-calls -fmodulo-sched -freschedule-modulo-scheduled-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -fPIC -fno-common -mpc64 -rdynamic -shared"
FLAGS_LIB="-Wl,-z,relro -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-z,now -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-ld -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -Wl,--build-id=sha1 -Wl,-dT,/home/tck42/rpmbuild/BUILD/gambit-4.9.4/.package_note-gambit-c-4.9.4-1.fc37.x86_64.ld -O2 -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -fexceptions -g -grecord-gcc-switches -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -fstack-protector-strong -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -m64 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -rdynamic -shared"
FLAGS_EXE="-Wl,-z,relro -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-z,now -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-ld -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -Wl,--build-id=sha1 -Wl,-dT,/home/tck42/rpmbuild/BUILD/gambit-4.9.4/.package_note-gambit-c-4.9.4-1.fc37.x86_64.ld -O2 -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -fexceptions -g -grecord-gcc-switches -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -fstack-protector-strong -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -m64 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -Wno-unused -Wno-write-strings -Wdisabled-optimization -fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-trapping-math -fno-math-errno -fschedule-insns2 -foptimize-sibling-calls -fmodulo-sched -freschedule-modulo-scheduled-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -fPIC -fno-common -mpc64 -rdynamic"I see the problem in configure.ac:
if test "$ENABLE_CPLUSPLUS" = yes; then
CORCXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS"
else
CORCXXFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
fi
FLAGS_OBJ="$CORCXXFLAGS $FLAGS_OBJ $FLAGS_OBJ_DYN $FLAGS_OBJ_DYN_LIB_EXE"
FLAGS_DYN="$LDFLAGS $CORCXXFLAGS $FLAGS_DYN $FLAGS_OBJ_DYN $FLAGS_OBJ_DYN_LIB_EXE $FLAGS_DYN_LIB"so I was wrong and CFLAGS from the build environment is being captured in the generated gambuild-C script...
right - it's just about removing that one flag, which is why I'm thinking the easiest and I guess most correct way is just to patch / sed it out of the gambuild-C that actually gets installed. That linker flag can be dropped I think, since it's just tagging the output binaries with metadata that aren't even appropriate for end user build binaries
(I'll just be proposing this in the bug, the actual packager may have other ideas on how to fix it in the spec file)
Hmm, that's true (I'm used to arch where those kinds of patches are common in their build scripts); though the existing fedora spec is alread patching configure presumably to work properly with buildroot or whatever they're using for the actual install. I don't know that a general solution is possible without somehow generating gambuild-C twice; once before building, and once just before packaging
another option would be to remove the reference to CFLAGS in the configure script, and cross our fingers that on all systems the build machine and target machines have compatible settings for CFLAGS
Hmm - I'm personally too ignorant on the topic but the second method sounds like it could cause problems (ie where we know we need a particular flag on a particular architecture). Splitting into "flags we use to build gsc" and "flags gsc will later use" and then defaulting the packaged gsc's flags to the build flags does sound like the way to go.
I'm happy to take a shot at a pull request, been meaning to learn and understand autoconf and friends
for what it's worth, fedora's build system is actually adding that flag to LDFLAGS, not CFLAGS or CXXFLAGS, though I think basically all three of those would be useful to have a configure flag for the same behavior and probably similar to implement. Will submit a pull request when I have it working
@tck42 So currently the value of
LDFLAGS at the time of the ./configure is captured and used by the Gambit makefiles (to build libgambit.a, gsi and gsc) and also by the gambuild-C script which is used to compile the standard modules (SRFIs, etc) and also user modules. I propose to add a new option to configure that allows capturing a different set of flags in the gambuild-C script. So ./configure --enable-gambuild-ldflags="-foo -bar" will only capture those flags in gambuild-C (but the LDFLAGS that exist when the gambuild-C script is called will still be used by the C compiler, as this is normal behavior). A ./configure --enable-gambuild-ldflags="" … will thus only use the late binding of LDFLAGS and a ./configure --enable-gambuild-ldflags="$LDFLAGS" … will cause the same behavior as now. The same can be done for CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS.
I'd been going a different route - I was creating a second set of gambuild files with the override variables if they're provided, and with the normal values if not, and then at install time I'm installing those instead; that was the only way I could think of that would still allow those files to be generated at configure time and have the original gambuild files used for the actual build process, but it requires duplicate gambuild files in a separate directory which I do not like. If it's not a requirement that the original gambuild files be around for build, your method is much much cleaner. I'll give that one a shot instead.
@tck42 Remember that
CFLAGS and LDFLAGS environment variables are always used implicitly by the C compiler, so putting them in the binding of FLAGS_ is redundant at build time (when doing ./configure …;make). It is only relevant when a programmer is using the gsc compiler after it is built and installed. Either to generate a .oN file with gsc foo.scm or an executable program with gsc -exe foo.scm (both cases invoke the gambuild-C script). I believe your problem will be solved if the gambuild-C script does not capture the setting that LDFLAGS had at build time by using ./configure --enable-gambuild-ldflags="".
gambiteer (Bradley Lucier): what about look up define-type in Gambit’s sourcew
s
@gambiteer I believe this is what you're after: https://github.com/gambit/gambit/blob/0f84372e879cb6979ccf30ee886ca3e19ad09936/lib/_nonstd.scm#L769
@gambiteer The define-type form is identical to define-structure. It is also easy to map define-record-type to define-type. It is done with:
(define-runtime-macro (##define-record-type name constructor predicate . fields)
`(##define-type ,name
constructor: ,constructor
copier: #f
predicate: ,predicate
no-functional-setter:
,@fields))Some documentation is here: https://mailman.iro.umontreal.ca/pipermail/gambit-list/attachments/20090226/af2ee44c/attachment.txt
It would of course be good to define the form properly in the Gambit manual. I’ve added an issue for this on the github repo.
feeley (Marc Feeley): To recap the definition of a module: it is a directory and the directory contains, let’s see, a .sld or .scm or .six file with the body code of the module, and then also a #.scm with headers that are automatically ##include:d by (import)?
Apart from those two, the build output ends up in the module’s own directory and finally the module may ##include files in turn and those would be sought for (have as search path, relative current directory) in the module directory -
And then a module can contain setup.scm and module directories can have module subdirectories = recursive structure
Is this all the use the fact, that each module has its own directory, has or can a directory contain anything more of significance than what was said above here?
All, in Aug-Oct would you be up for a group zoom call with Marc where he explains compiler internals and more?
feeley (Marc Feeley): The time infos processed by Gambit eg in the floats slot in the thread struct, is it that any relative timeout eg (thread-sleep! 0.001) in Gambit gets translated to absolute time and then frequently ends up processed in C Gambit internals, and this is the reason the absolute time is always f64 or 64bit uint?
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