[PATCH] wafsamba: Remove code which is not used in most cases

Thomas Nagy tnagy at waf.io
Sun Jun 28 22:35:54 MDT 2015


These changes will result in Samba incremental taking a much longer time to start: 2.5s -> 6s.

If the install build differs so much from the normal build, how about having the dependency cache depend on the previously executed command (build/install)?

Thomas

On Mon, 29 Jun 2015 11:06:34 +1000, Martin Schwenke wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 16:49:22 +1000, Amitay Isaacs <amitay at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > I recently found strange behavior with standalone CTDB build.
> > 
> >   $ cd ctdb
> >   $ ./configure --prefix=/tmp/ctdb
> >   $ make
> >   $ make install
> > 
> > During the install, waf is supposed to re-link all the binaries with
> > correct -rpath flags.
> > 
> >   $ ldd /tmp/ctdb/bin/ctdb
> >     linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffe64571000)
> >     libtdb-wrap-ctdb.so => not found
> >     libtime-basic-ctdb.so => not found
> >     libsocket-blocking-ctdb.so => not found
> >     libtdb.so.1 => /lib64/libtdb.so.1 (0x00007f89a050c000)
> >     libtevent.so.0 => /lib64/libtevent.so.0 (0x00007f89a02fe000)
> >     libsamba-debug-ctdb.so => not found
> >     libreplace-ctdb.so => not found
> >     libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f89a00fa000)
> >     [... stuff deleted ...]
> > 
> > It looks like the correct flags are not getting passed to the linker.
> > Running "make install V=1" confirms that.
> > 
> > The problem originates in the function needs_private_lib() in
> > buildtools/wafsamba/samba_utils.py.
> > This function is supposed to check if the target depends on any private
> > libraries.
> > However, the function returns False since getattr(target, "final_libs", [])
> > always returns [].
> > In install_rpath(), the PRIVATELIBDIR is not added to the list of
> > directories.
> > 
> > The real culprit is seen with the folllowing command:
> > 
> >   $ ../buildtools/bin/waf --zones=deps install
> >   Waf: Entering directory `/home/amitay/samba/samba-master/ctdb/bin'
> >   * creating /tmp/ctdb/var/log
> >   * creating /tmp/ctdb/var/run/ctdb
> >   * creating /tmp/ctdb/var/lib/ctdb
> >   16:32:21 deps checking saved dependencies           <----
> >   16:32:21 deps loaded saved dependencies               <----
> >   * installing ctdb/bin/default/ctdb/ctdb.pc as
> > /tmp/ctdb/lib/pkgconfig/ctdb.pc
> >   * installing ctdb/bin/default/ctdb/ctdb_run_tests.sh as
> > /tmp/ctdb/bin/ctdb_run_tests
> >   [... stuff deleted ...]
> > 
> > For standalone CTDB build, "make install" ends up loading the stored
> > dependencies instead of calculating them again.  In the top-level build or
> > in the standalone ldb, dependencies are always re-calculated.
> > 
> > Here is the output from top-level build:
> > 
> >   $ ./buildtools/bin/waf --zones=deps install
> >   Waf: Entering directory `/home/amitay/samba/samba-master/bin'
> >   * creating /home/amitay/samba/prefix1/etc
> >   * creating /home/amitay/samba/prefix1/private
> >   * creating /home/amitay/samba/prefix1/var
> >   * creating /home/amitay/samba/prefix1/private
> >   * creating /home/amitay/samba/prefix1/var/lib
> >   * creating /home/amitay/samba/prefix1/var/locks
> >   * creating /home/amitay/samba/prefix1/var/cache
> >   * creating /home/amitay/samba/prefix1/var/lock
> >   * creating /home/amitay/samba/prefix1/var/run
> >   * creating /home/amitay/samba/prefix1/var/run
> >       Selected embedded Heimdal build
> >   16:24:45 deps checking saved dependencies         <-----
> >   Checking project rules ...
> >   16:24:45 deps project rules checking started          <-----
> >   16:24:45 deps expand_subsystem_deps: 0.000659
> >   [... stuff deleted ...]
> > 
> > The function load_samba_deps() in buildtools/wafsamba/samba_deps.py
> > always return False for top-level "make install" or standalone ldb "make
> > install".
> > 
> > Since saving and loading dependencies code is broken and not getting used
> > in most cases, it may be a good idea to drop that code.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Martin Schwenke <martin at meltin.net>
> 
> I'll push this in 24 hours unless someone NACKs it.
> 
> peace & happiness,
> martin




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