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Andrea Bolognani
4af076f163 ci: Fix VPATH builds
The CI build machinery is intentionally not handled by autotools,
so for VPATH builds - which are mandatory now - we need to make
sure we're looking into $(srcdir).

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-12-12 11:42:34 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
504f831957 tests: rewrite test argv line wrapper in Python
As part of a goal to eliminate Perl from libvirt build tools,
rewrite the test-wrap-argv.pl tool in Python.

This was a straight conversion, manually going line-by-line to
change the syntax from Perl to Python. Thus the overall structure
of the file and approach is the same.

Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-12-04 13:44:15 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
e0314b6855 src: rewrite remote protocol checker in Python
As part of a goal to eliminate Perl from libvirt build tools,
rewrite the pdwtags processing script in Python.

The original inline shell and perl code was completely
unintelligible. The new python code is a manual conversion
that attempts todo basically the same thing.

Tested-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-12-04 13:44:15 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
d57d8d6e92 docs: move hyperv_wmi_generator.py to the scripts/ directory
Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-12-04 11:42:28 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
74f270095a docs: move esx_vi_generator.py to the scripts/ directory
Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-12-04 11:42:16 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
4de5d01a4e docs: move reformat-news.py to the scripts/ directory
Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-12-04 11:42:04 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
5ffbad2575 docs: move apibuild.py to the scripts/ directory
Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-12-04 11:41:32 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
a5c72a0061 src: rewrite polkit ACL generator in Python
As part of a goal to eliminate Perl from libvirt build tools,
rewrite the genpolkit.pl tool in Python.

This was a straight conversion, manually going line-by-line to
change the syntax from Perl to Python. Thus the overall structure
of the file and approach is the same.

Tested-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-11-20 14:45:25 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
a559ffec44 src: rewrite ACL rule checker in Python
As part of a goal to eliminate Perl from libvirt build tools,
rewrite the check-aclrules.pl tool in Python.

This was a straight conversion, manually going line-by-line to
change the syntax from Perl to Python. Thus the overall structure
of the file and approach is the same.

Tested-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-11-20 14:45:25 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
c2d6e61d5a src: rewrite driver impl checker in Python
As part of a goal to eliminate Perl from libvirt build tools,
rewrite the check-driverimpls.pl tool in Python.

This was a straight conversion, manually going line-by-line to
change the syntax from Perl to Python. Thus the overall structure
of the file and approach is the same.

Tested-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-11-20 14:45:25 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
4a5370ba41 src: rewrite driver name checker in Python
As part of a goal to eliminate Perl from libvirt build tools,
rewrite the check-drivername.pl tool in Python.

This was mostly a straight conversion, manually going line-by-line
to change the syntax from Perl to Python. Thus the overall structure
of the file and approach is the same.

In testing though it was discovered the existing code was broken
since it hadn't been updated after driver.h was split into many
files. Since the old code is being thrown away, the fix was done
as part of the rewrite rather than split into a separate commit.

Tested-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-11-20 14:45:25 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
6f4f52d05f src: rewrite systemtap function generator in Python
As part of a goal to eliminate Perl from libvirt build tools,
rewrite the gensystemtap.pl tool in Python.

This was a straight conversion, manually going line-by-line to
change the syntax from Perl to Python. Thus the overall structure
of the file and approach is the same.

Tested-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-11-20 14:45:25 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
952c018efe src: rewrite systemtap probe generator in Python
As part of a goal to eliminate Perl from libvirt build tools,
rewrite the dtrace2systemtap.pl tool in Python.

This was a straight conversion, manually going line-by-line to
change the syntax from Perl to Python. Thus the overall structure
of the file and approach is the same.

The "--with-modules" flag was dropped because this functionality
is not implicitly always enabled.

Tested-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-11-20 14:45:25 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
d30a1ad044 src: rewrite symfile library checker in Python
As part of a goal to eliminate Perl from libvirt build tools,
rewrite the check-symfile.pl tool in Python.

This was a straight conversion, manually going line-by-line to
change the syntax from Perl to Python. Thus the overall structure
of the file and approach is the same.

Tested-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-11-20 14:45:25 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
31276b3b27 src: rewrite symfile sorting checker in Python
As part of a goal to eliminate Perl from libvirt build tools,
rewrite the check-symsorting.pl tool in Python.

This was a straight conversion, manually going line-by-line to
change the syntax from Perl to Python. Thus the overall structure
of the file and approach is the same.

Tested-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-11-20 14:45:25 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
312f232b17 src: rewrite ACL permissions checker in Python
As part of a goal to eliminate Perl from libvirt build tools,
rewrite the check-aclperms.pl tool in Python.

This was a straight conversion, manually going line-by-line to
change the syntax from Perl to Python. Thus the overall structure
of the file and approach is the same.

Tested-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-11-20 14:45:25 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
2d6f543b06 build-aux: rewrite header ifdef checker in Python
As part of a goal to eliminate Perl from libvirt build tools,
rewrite the header-ifdef.pl tool in Python.

This was a straight conversion, manually going line-by-line to
change the syntax from Perl to Python. Thus the overall structure
of the file and approach is the same.

Tested-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-11-20 14:45:25 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
b7d00249ea build-aux: rewrite mock inline checker in Python
As part of a goal to eliminate Perl from libvirt build tools,
rewrite the mock-noinline.pl tool in Python.

This was a straight conversion, manually going line-by-line to
change the syntax from Perl to Python. Thus the overall structure
of the file and approach is the same.

Tested-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-11-20 14:45:25 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
7909359d60 build-aux: rewrite duplicate header checker in Python
As part of an goal to eliminate Perl from libvirt build tools,
rewrite the prohibit-duplicate-header.pl tool in Python.

This was a straight conversion, manually going line-by-line to
change the syntax from Perl to Python. Thus the overall structure
of the file and approach is the same.

Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-11-18 17:24:31 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
b2c2a3ae91 build-aux: rewrite po file minimizer in Python
As part of an goal to eliminate Perl from libvirt build tools,
rewrite the minimize-po.pl tool in Python.

This was a straight conversion, manually going line-by-line to
change the syntax from Perl to Python. Thus the overall structure
of the file and approach is the same.

Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-10-18 13:54:03 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
17bbdef5cb build-aux: rewrite augeas test generator in Python
As part of an goal to eliminate Perl from libvirt build tools,
rewrite the augeas-gentest.pl tool in Python.

This was a straight conversion, manually going line-by-line to
change the syntax from Perl to Python. Thus the overall structure
of the file and approach is the same.

The use of $(AUG_GENTEST) as a dependancy in the makefiles needed
to be fixed, because this was assumed to be the filename of the
script, but is in fact a full shell command line.

Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-10-18 13:54:03 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
22d8e27ccd build: merge all syntax-check logic into one file
The gnulib syntax-check rules are spread across GNUmakefile, cfg.mk and
maint.mk. This made sense when we were getting two of the files from the
gnulib submodule. Now that we own all files though, we can at least
merge maint.mk and cfg.mk together. GNUmakefile can be eliminated when
we switch to meson.

Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-10-09 13:36:54 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
de744894bb build: move syntax-check code into build-aux directory
The syntax-check rules are the one bit of make usage that will
stay around for a while after the meson conversion. Move them
into the build-aux directory in preparation for refactoring
to make them independent from automake.

Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-10-09 13:36:43 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
56bd0665c7 build: import gnulib's syntax-check make rules
We're going to be eliminating autotools and gnulib, but we still wish to
have the 'make syntax-check' functionality.

This imports the minimal set of gnulib files required to keep this
working.

Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-10-09 13:36:29 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
8ab67fb64f build: force -Werror for distcheck target
The 'make distcheck' target validates that a tarball builds and
is ready for release. We expect that libvirt builds cleanly on
all supported platforms, so we should be enabling -Werror when
running distcheck.

This ensures that our CI systems in turn also use -Werror.

Reviewed-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <fidencio@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-10-07 15:50:57 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
019fc5c85b build: drop the gitlog-to-changelog gnulib module
The use of this script was discontinued when we stopped providing a full
ChangeLog in the dist with:

  commit ce97c33a79
  Author: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
  Date:   Mon Apr 1 17:33:03 2019 +0200

    maint: Stop generating ChangeLog from git

Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-10-07 11:34:24 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
ada268012a build: force a UTF-8 locale for python
Python3 versions less than 3.7 have very unhelpful handling
of the C locale where they assume data is 7-bit only. This
violates POSIX which requires the C locale to be 8-bit clean.
Python3 >= 3.7 now assumes that the C locale is always UTF-8.

Set env variables to force LC_CTYPE to en_US.UTF-8 so that
we get UTF-8 handling on all python versions. Note we do
not use C.UTF-8 since not all C libraries support that.

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-09-24 15:46:22 +01:00
Andrea Bolognani
2ce3274ea5 ci: Introduce $(CI_PREPARE_SCRIPT)
This script is run before $(CI_BUILD_SCRIPT) and can be used
to tweak the environment as necessary before the build starts.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2019-08-21 18:58:27 +02:00
Andrea Bolognani
0d1aecdd6a ci: Introduce $(CI_BUILD_SCRIPT)
Instead of hardcoding build instructions into the Makefile,
move them to a separate script that's mounted into the
container.

This gives us a couple of advantages: we no longer have to
deal with the awkward quoting required when embedding shell
code in a Makefile, and we also provide the users with a way
to override the default build instructions with their own.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2019-08-21 18:58:22 +02:00
Andrea Bolognani
ffad19f94c ci: Move everything to a separate directory
We're going to have a few more CI-related files in a second, and
it makes sense to have a separate directory for them rather than
littering the root directory.

$(CI_SCRATCHDIR) can now also be created inside the CI directory,
and as a bonus the make rune necessary to start CI builds without
running configure first becomes shorter.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2019-08-21 18:58:13 +02:00
Jiri Denemark
8a62a1592a Revert "configure: Remove --enable-test-coverage"
This reverts commit f38d553e2d.

Gnulib's make coverage (or init-coverage, build-coverage, gen-coverage)
is not a 1-1 replacement for the original configure option. Our old
--enable-test-coverage seems to be close to gnulib's make build-coverage
except gnulib runs lcov in that phase and the build actually fails for
me even before lcov is run. And since we want to be able to just build
libvirt without running lcov, I suggest reverting to our own
implementation.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Acked-By: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2019-08-14 09:28:06 +02:00
Martin Kletzander
c0e31f906c Don't include Makefile.ci in Makefile.am
The way it works now the Makefile needs to be both make valid and automake
valid.  That is fine for now, but if we want to use anything more advanced, like
conditionals, we cannot have it like that any more.

So instead forward all ci-* rules to that file.

Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
2019-05-10 09:12:52 +02:00
Michal Privoznik
f7ab91b61a lib: Build sources before running 'check-access'
If the source tree was freshly configured and no objects are
built yet then 'make check-access' has no test to run. Build
the sources beforehand.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2019-05-07 11:01:21 +02:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
89f8902a68 tests: add targets for building libvirt inside Docker containers
The Travis CI system uses Docker containers for its build environment.
These are pre-built and hosted under quay.io/libvirt so that developers
can use them for reproducing problems locally.

Getting the right Docker command syntax to use them, however, is not
entirely easy. This patch addresses that usability issue by introducing
some make targets. To run a simple build (aka 'make all') using the
Fedora 28 container:

   make ci-build@fedora-28

To also run unit tests

   make ci-check@fedora-28

This is just syntax sugar for calling the previous command with a
custom make target

   make ci-build@fedora-28 CI_MAKE_ARGS="check"

To do a purely interactive build it is possible to request a shell

   make ci-shell@fedora-28

To do a MinGW build, it is currently possible to use the fedora-rawhide
image and request a different configure script

   make ci-build@fedora-rawhide CI_CONFIGURE=mingw32-configure

It is also possible to do cross compiled builds via the Debian containers

   make ci-build@debian-9-cross-s390x

In all cases the GIT source tree is cloned locally into a 'ci-tree/src'
sub-directory which is then exposed to the container at '/src'. It is
setup to use a separate build directory so the build takes place in a
subdir '/src/build'. A source tree build can be requested instead
by passing an empty string CI_VPATH= arg to make.

The make rules are kept in a standalone file that is included into the
main Makefile.am, so that it is possible to run them without having to
invoke autotools first.

It is neccessary to disable the gnulib submodule commit check because
this fails due to the way we have manually cloned submodule repos as
primary git repos with their own .git directory, instead of letting
git treat them as submodules in the top level .git directory.

  make[1]: Entering directory '/src/build'
  fatal: Not a valid object name origin
  fatal: run_command returned non-zero status for .gnulib
  .
  maint.mk: found non-public submodule commit
  make: *** [/src/maint.mk:1448: public-submodule-commit] Error 1

Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-04-11 18:38:56 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
d5cbf85f1a build-aux: ensure all scripts are included in EXTRA_DIST
Few of the scripts in build-aux are included in EXTRA_DIST. This is not
a serious problem since they are primarily tools intended for developers
upstream, and downstream builds won't need them. Having them missing,
however, complicates downstream patching because it means patches that
are auto-exported from git will fail to apply if they include a change
to a file in build-aux/.  By bundling all these scripts in the dist we
make patching more straightforward.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-04-11 15:20:17 +01:00
Andrea Bolognani
be819ebece maint: Drop ChangeLog-old
This file contains the old school ChangeLog, which was manually
updated for every set of changes before the switch to git.

When libvirt was imported into git, however, *all* history was
preserved, including the changes documented in this file, and
can still be inspected using 'git log' just like more recent
changes: the format might be slightly different, but that's not
quite reason enough to treat this file any differently than the
git-generated ChangeLog we just dropped.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2019-04-03 09:45:58 +02:00
Andrea Bolognani
ce97c33a79 maint: Stop generating ChangeLog from git
Our ChangeLog is generated by basically redirecting the output
of 'git log' into it so, as can be expected, it has only gotten
bigger as development has progressed. As of today, its size has
reached pretty much comical levels:

  $ du -sk ChangeLog
  11328 ChangeLog

All of that for information *literally nobody* cares about: end
users and distro maintainers have proper release notes lovingly
compiled for them, while developers peruse the history either by
calling 'git log' directly or through their favorite $EDITOR's
git integration.

Replacing the generated ChangeLog with a short message pointing
interested parties to the git repository does not only reduce
the size of the unpacked sources from 259904 KiB to 248576 KiB
(~4% saving): from a quick test on my laptop, doing so reduces
the size of the *compressed* release archive from 15140 KiB to
12364 KiB (~18% saving) and also takes the time needed to run
'make distcheck' down from 4:44 to 4:21 (~8% saving).

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2019-04-03 09:45:25 +02:00
Cole Robinson
f38d553e2d configure: Remove --enable-test-coverage
We provide a custom configure option --enable-test-coverage and
'make cov' target to generate code coverage reports. However gnulib
already provides a 'make coverage' which 'just works' and doesn't
require a special configure option.

This drops our custom implementation in favor of 'make coverage'.
Reports are now output to cov/index.html

Reviewed-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
2019-03-14 20:47:15 -04:00
Michal Privoznik
cfdc0c771a Forget last daemon/ dir artefacts
The most important part is LIBVIRTD_PATH env var fix. It is used
in virFileFindResourceFull() from tests. The libvirtd no longer
lives under daemon/.

Then, libvirtd-fail test was still failing (as expected) but not
because of missing config file but because it was trying to
execute (nonexistent) top_builddir/daemon/libvirtd which
fulfilled expected outcome and thus test did not fail.

Thirdly, lcov was told to generate coverage for daemon/ dir too.

Fourthly, our compiling documentation was still suggesting to run
daemonn/libvirtd.

And finally, some comments in a systemtap file and a probes file
were still referring to daemon/libvirtd.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
2018-07-27 15:44:38 +02:00
Andrea Bolognani
94d1f273ba AUTHORS: Avoid duplicated entries
Instead of simply dumping the list of authors as obtained
from git, we can be a bit smarter and filter out maintainers
so that their names don't appear twice.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
2018-07-09 10:04:51 +02:00
Andrea Bolognani
9265b54d93 docs: Call reformat-news.py with $(PYTHON)
This is the only Python script which we invoke directly, which
works pretty fine in general but becomes a problem if the user
has explicitly overridden Python binary detection at configure
time.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2018-03-14 12:00:27 +01:00
Jiri Denemark
61ea684509 build: Add srpm make target
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
2018-03-13 16:09:58 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrangé
3f055b5997 daemon: move logrotate files to src/remote/
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2018-02-22 12:26:57 +00:00
Andrea Bolognani
3e7db8d3e8 Remove backslash alignment attempts
Right-aligning backslashes when defining macros or using complex
commands in Makefiles looks cute, but as soon as any changes is
required to the code you end up with either distractingly broken
alignment or unnecessarily big diffs where most of the changes
are just pushing all backslashes a few characters to one side.

Generated using

  $ git grep -El '[[:blank:]][[:blank:]]\\$' | \
    grep -E '*\.([chx]|am|mk)$$' | \
    while read f; do \
      sed -Ei 's/[[:blank:]]*[[:blank:]]\\$/ \\/g' "$f"; \
    done

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
2017-11-03 13:24:12 +01:00
Andrea Bolognani
d672551816 HACKING: Drop from the git repository
Despite being a generated file, HACKING has been tracked in
the git repository along with actual source files. As far as
I'm aware, it's the only generated file for which that happens.

Times and times again, people[1] have committed changes to
the source file without refreshing the generated copy at the
same time.

The rationale for tracking the generated file is to help out
people who just cloned the git repository looking to contribue;
however, README-hacking already contains enough information to
get perspective contributors to a place where they can simply
look at docs/hacking.html instead.

[1] Mostly me, to be honest

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
2017-06-26 14:25:54 +02:00
Daniel P. Berrange
e5ae24bdd2 Provide a useful README file
The current README file contents has almost no useful info, and that
which does exist is very outdated.

Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
2017-05-22 17:01:37 +01:00
Andrea Bolognani
3bf3711a33 Drop autobuild.sh
The Test-AutoBuild project, that this script is supposed to
be used with, hasn't seen any activity in ~6 years; libvirt's
own CI is running on Jenkins with a completely independent
setup that doesn't use the script at all.
2017-04-13 19:03:46 +02:00
Andrea Bolognani
6a5b312730 NEWS: Reformat at generation time
Instead of encoding formatting information inside the
corresponding XSLT stylesheet, use a Python script to reformat
the text appropriately based on a few simple markers.

Splitting the task between the XSLT stylesheet and the Python
script allows us to keep both parts very simple.
2017-01-10 19:37:55 +01:00
Andrea Bolognani
be36ea4b52 NEWS: Improve building pipeline
Currently, building the NEWS file involves using a XSLT stylesheet
to extract information from the same HTML file that's used on the
libvirt website.

The process works, but it's quite fiddly in that it requires the
source HTML to be formatted in a very precise way, and a single
missing newline can mess up the resulting plain text considerably.

Moreover, the XSLT stylesheet itself encodes a lot of the details
of converting to plain text in a way that's not necessarily easy
to understand, tweak or fix.

To improve the process, move all existing entries to a new XML
file that contains exactly the information we care about in a
simple structured format, and start generating both the HTML and
plain text versions of the release notes using XSLT stylesheets
that can now afford to be almost trivial.
2017-01-10 19:37:53 +01:00
Martin Kletzander
e8a5939c46 dist: Speed up distribution compression
This almost reverts b7200d7236.  The size is increased from 11M to 13M
and the compression is sped up from 2 minutes to 17 seconds.  The
compression level is removed because -9 doesn't allow multiple threads
to be spawned.  Effectively speeds up distcheck as well.

Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
2016-06-30 16:05:24 +02:00