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2023-01-31Added default values for pathnames.Alejandro Colomar1-14/+3
This allows one to simply run `./configure` and expect it to produce sane defaults for an install. Previously, without specifying `--prefix=...`, `make install` would simply fail, recommending to set `--prefix` or `DESTDIR`, but that recommendation was incomplete at best, since it didn't set many of the subdirs needed for a good organization. Setting `DESTDIR` was even worse, since that shouldn't even affect an installation (it is required to be transparent to the installation). /usr/local is the historic Unix standard path to use for installations from source made manually by the admin of the system. Some package managers (Homebrew, I'm looking specifically at you) have abused that path to install their things, but 1) it's not our fault that someone else incorrectly abuses that path (and they seem to be fixing it for newer archs; e.g., they started using /opt/homebrew for Apple Silicon), 2) there's no better path than /usr/local, 3) we still allow changing it for systems where this might not be the desired path (MacOS Intel with hombrew), and 4) it's _the standard_. See a related conversation with Ingo (OpenBSD maintainer): On 7/27/22 16:16, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Hi Alejandro, [...] > > Alejandro Colomar wrote on Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 07:07:18PM +0200: >> On 7/24/22 16:57, Ingo Schwarze wrote: >>> Alejandro Colomar wrote on Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 01:20:46PM +0200: > >>>> /usr/local is for sysadmins to build from source; > >>> Doing that is *very* strongly discouraged on OpenBSD. > >> I guess that's why the directory was reused in the BSDs to install ports >> (probably ports were installed by the sysadmin there, and by extension, >> ports are now always installed there, but that's just a guess). > > Maybe. In any case, the practice of using /usr/local for packages > created from ports is significantly older than the recommendation > to refrain from using upstream "make install" outside the ports > framework. > > * The FreeBSD ports framework was started by Jordan Hubbard in 1993. > * The ports framework was ported from FreeBSD to OpenBSD > by Niklas Hallqvist in 1996. > * NetBSD pkgsrc was forked from FreeBSD ports by Alistair G. Crooks > and Hubert Feyrer in 1997. > > I failed to quickly find Jordan's original version, but rev. 1.1 > of /usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk in OpenBSD (dated Jun 3 > 22:47:10 1996 UTC) already said > > LOCALBASE ?= /usr/local > PREFIX ?= ${LOCALBASE} > [...] >> I had a discussion in NGINX Unit about it, and >> the decission for now has been: "support prefix=/usr/local for default >> manual installation through the Makefile, and let BSD users adjust to >> their preferred path". > > That's an *excellent* solution for the task, thanks for doing it > the right way. By setting PREFIX=/usr/local by default in the > upstream Makefile, you are minimizing the work for *BSD porters. > > The BSD ports frameworks will typically run the upstreak "make install" > with the variable DESTDIR set to a custom value, for example > > DESTDIR=/usr/ports/pobj/groff-1.23.0/fake-amd64 > > so if the upstream Makefile sets PREFIX=/usr/local , > that's perfect, everything gets installed to the right place > without an intervention by the person doing the porting. > > Of course, if the upstream Makefile would use some other PREFIX, > that would not be a huge obstacle. All we have to do in that case > is pass the option --prefix=/usr/local to the ./configure script, > or something equivalent if the software isn't using GNU configure. > >> We were concerned that we might get collisions >> with the BSD port also installing in /usr/local, but that's the least >> evil (and considering BSD users don't typically run `make install`, it's >> not so bad). > > It's not bad at all. It's perfect. > > Of course, if a user wants to install *without* the ports framework, > they have to provide their own --prefix. But that's not an issue > because it is easy to do, and installing without a port is discouraged > anyway. === Directory variables should never contain a trailing slash (I've learned that the hard way, where some things would break unexpectedly). Especially, make(1) is likely to have problems when things have double slashes or a trailing slash, since it treats filenames as text strings. I've removed the trailing slash from the prefix, and added it to the derivate variables just after the prefix. pkg-config(1) also expects directory variables to have no trailing slash. === I also removed the code that would set variables as depending on the prefix if they didn't start with a slash, because that is a rather non-obvious behavior, and things should not always depend on prefix, but other dirs such as $(runstatedir), so if we keep a similar behavior it would be very unreliable. Better keep variables intact if set, or use the default if unset. === Print the real defaults for ./configure --help, rather than the actual values. === I used a subdirectory under the standard /var/lib for NXT_STATE, instead of a homemade "state" dir that does the same thing. === Modified the Makefile to create some dirs that weren't being created, and also remove those that weren't being removed in uninstall, probably because someone forgot to add them. === Add new options for setting the new variables, and rename some to be consistent with the standard names. Keep the old ones at configuration time for compatibility, but mark them as deprecated. Don't keep the old ones at exec time. === A summary of the default config is: Unit configuration summary: bin directory: ............. "/usr/local/bin" sbin directory: ............ "/usr/local/sbin" lib directory: ............. "/usr/local/lib" include directory: ......... "/usr/local/include" man pages directory: ....... "/usr/local/share/man" modules directory: ......... "/usr/local/lib/unit/modules" state directory: ........... "/usr/local/var/lib/unit" tmp directory: ............. "/tmp" pid file: .................. "/usr/local/var/run/unit/unit.pid" log file: .................. "/usr/local/var/log/unit/unit.log" control API socket: ........ "unix:/usr/local/var/run/unit/control.unit.sock" Link: <https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Directory-Variables.html> Link: <https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/index.html> Reviewed-by: Artem Konev <a.konev@f5.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Clayton <a.clayton@nginx.com> Tested-by: Andrew Clayton <a.clayton@nginx.com> Reviewed-by: Konstantin Pavlov <thresh@nginx.com> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@nginx.com>
2023-01-12Autodetect endianness.Andrew Clayton1-1/+1
In configure we set NXT_HAVE_LITTLE_ENDIAN for i386, amd64 and x86_64. However that misses at least AArch64 (arm64) where it's usually run in little endian mode. However none of that really matters as NXT_HAVE_LITTLE_ENDIAN isn't used anywhere. So why this patch? The only place we need to explicitly know about endianness is the nxt_websocket_header_t structure where we lay it out differently depending on endianness. This is currently done using BYTE_ORDER, LITTLE_ENDIAN and BIG_ENDIAN macros. However on at least illumos (OpenSolaris / OpenIndiana) those macros are not defined and we get compiler errors due to duplicate structure members. So let's use our own NXT_HAVE_{BIG,LITTLE}_ENDIAN macros. However it would be better to detect endianness programmatically as some architectures can run in either mode, e.g Linux used to run in big endian on PowerPC but has since switched to little endian (to match x86). This commit adds an auto/endian script (using a slightly modified version of the test program from nginx's auto script), that checks for the endianness of the platform being built on. E.g checking for endianness ... little endian The next commit will switch the nxt_websocket_header_t structure over to these new macros. Link: <https://github.com/nginx/unit/pull/298> Link: <https://developer.ibm.com/articles/l-power-little-endian-faq-trs/> Tested-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@nginx.com> Reviewed-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@nginx.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Clayton <a.clayton@nginx.com>
2022-12-10Isolation: wired up cgroup to build system.Andrew Clayton1-0/+1
This commit enables the building of the cgroup code. This is only built when the cgroupv2 filesystem is found. If cgroupv2 support is found then cgroupv2: .................. YES will be printed by ./configure Reviewed-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@nginx.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Clayton <a.clayton@nginx.com>
2022-11-20Basic njs support.Zhidao HONG1-0/+4
2022-07-18Removed duplicate handling of './configure --help'.Alejandro Colomar1-5/+0
That is already handled in auto/options. It is better suited there, since it's an option, and not a module, and also because it makes use of variables declared there.
2021-12-03Printing version in "./configure" output.Valentin Bartenev1-0/+1
2021-03-24Added build system support for a man page.Konstantin Pavlov1-0/+1
2020-11-17Router: matching regular expressions support.Axel Duch1-1/+5
2020-03-12Using disk file to store large request body.Max Romanov1-0/+2
This closes #386 on GitHub.
2019-09-19Initial applications isolation support using Linux namespaces.Tiago de Bem Natel de Moura1-0/+2
2019-02-22Improvement and unification of version processing in build scripts.Alexander Borisov1-0/+1
This also eliminates expressions that incompatible with BSD make, thus fixing installation of Node.js module on FreeBSD (broken by dace60fc4926).
2018-10-17Installing libunit headers and static library.Max Romanov1-0/+2
2018-07-23Fixed configure process with non-default locale.Valentin Bartenev1-2/+2
Overriding LANG might not work, since it has less precedence than LC_* settings. LC_ALL has the highest precedence. This should resolve issue #121 on GitHub.
2018-06-28Using appropriate default modules and state directories.Igor Sysoev1-2/+2
2018-01-11Fixed DragonFly BSD shared memory implementation.Igor Sysoev1-0/+2
2017-10-18Added the debug option to module compatibility vector.Igor Sysoev1-1/+10
2017-09-27Better checking for shm_open() during configure.Sergey Kandaurov1-0/+2
2017-09-10Configuration persistence.Valentin Bartenev1-0/+2
Now configuration survives server reloads.
2017-08-31Setting build directory with variable instead of configure option.Igor Sysoev1-2/+1
2017-08-31Introducing install & uninstall Makefile targets.Max Romanov1-3/+4
2017-08-31nginext has been renamed to unit.Igor Sysoev1-3/+3
2017-08-30Lib unit tests have been renamed to tests.Igor Sysoev1-1/+0
2017-08-29Improved English.Igor Sysoev1-1/+1
2017-08-26Added configuration summary.Igor Sysoev1-0/+1
2017-08-26Added configure and command line option --help.Igor Sysoev1-2/+18
2017-08-26Added configure and command line option --control.Igor Sysoev1-0/+2
2017-08-26Added configure and command line option --modules.Igor Sysoev1-0/+1
2017-08-26Added configure option --user=USER and --group=GROUP.Igor Sysoev1-0/+3
2017-08-26Added configure option --pid=FILE.Igor Sysoev1-0/+1
A pid file name can be relative. The default pid file name is "nginext.pid".
2017-08-26Added configure options --prefix=PATH and --log=FILE.Igor Sysoev1-0/+2
A prefix is prepended to all relative names at configure stage. There is no prefix by default. A log file name can be relative. The default log file name is "nginext.log".
2017-08-24Removed configure option --no-threads.Igor Sysoev1-12/+1
2017-08-17The new module configuration interface.Igor Sysoev1-5/+26
Configuration and building example: ./configure ./configure python ./configure php ./configure go make all or ./configure make nginext ./configure python make python ./configure php make php ./configure go make go Modules configuration options and building examples: ./configure python --module=python2 --config=python2.7-config make python2 ./configure php --module=php7 --config=php7.0-config --lib-path=/usr/local/php7.0 make php7 ./configure go --go=go1.6 --go-path=${HOME}/go1.6 make go1.6
2017-05-12Using shared memory to send data via nxt_port.Max Romanov1-0/+1
Usage: b = nxt_port_mmap_get_buf(task, port, size); b->mem.free = nxt_cpymem(b->mem.free, data, size); nxt_port_socket_write(task, port, NXT_PORT_MSG_DATA, -1, 0, b);
2017-01-17Initial version.Igor Sysoev1-0/+116