zc.buildout recipe for compiling and installing source distributions.
Project description
The recipe provides the means to compile and install source distributions using configure and make and other similar tools. It is inspired by the hexagonit.recipe.cmmi recipe but provides more control over the build process.
Changes
0.21 (2024-07-09)
Fix hooks when using download-cache
0.21 (2024-06-13)
Adapt to python 3.12
0.20 (2024-03-19)
Adapt imports to moved path in slapos.recipe.build
0.19 (2022-01-12)
Fix shebang workaround on Python 3.
generate slapos.recipe.build.env.sh if keep-compile-dir is true.
0.18 (2021-11-30)
Updated dependencies: zc.buildout>=2, slapos.recipe.build>=0.49
Fix error handling with new slapos.recipe.build when download fails.
For compiling, use a temporary directory that is inside the part location.
Remove slapos.recipe.cmmi way of having conditional sections.
More reliable cleanup of temporary downloaded file.
Switch to slapos.recipe.build implementation of environment & shared options. ‘environment-section’ option is dropped.
0.17 (2021-02-26)
fix_shebang: don’t touch symlinks.
0.16 (2020-05-08)
propagate strip_top_level_dir option to slapos.recipe.build:downloadunpacked
0.15 (2020-04-23)
slapos.recipe.build.env.sh improvements/fixes.
0.14 (2020-04-22)
Include part signature inside shared signature.
Drop ‘dependencies’ option.
Remove useless ‘_profile_base_location_’ entry from shared signature.
Expand environment variables during install (rather than during init).
0.13 (2020-03-31)
set -e for shell commands
0.12 (2019-12-12)
shared: Fix recovery after an interrupted build
0.11 (2019-10-02)
Support multiple directories for shared parts. This now uses ${buildout:shared-part-list} as list of directories to use.
0.10 (2018-11-30)
Make sure FDs are closed before spawning subprocesses.
0.9 (2018-10-29)
More Py3 fixes.
0.8 (2018-08-27)
Add shared feature.
0.7 (2017-06-06)
Fix MANIFEST.in: some files were missing.
0.6 (2017-06-05)
Add support for Python 3.
Optimize wrapper to scripts with long shebangs.
0.5 (2017-04-07)
Create a wrapper shell script for very long shebang scripts.
0.4 (2017-03-08)
Use slapos.recipe.build:downloadunpacked instead of hexagonit.recipe.download.
0.1.1 (2013-04-12)
Fix the wrong name ‘path_filename’
0.1 (2013-04-12)
Initial release, forking from hexagonit.recipe.cmmi (https://github.com/hexagonit/hexagonit.recipe.cmmi)
Supported options
url
URL to the package that will be downloaded and extracted. The supported package formats are .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, and .zip. The value must be a full URL, e.g. http://python.org/ftp/python/2.4.4/Python-2.4.4.tgz. The path option can not be used at the same time with url.
path
Path to a local directory containing the source code to be built and installed. The directory must contain the configure script. The url option can not be used at the same time with path.
strip-top-level-dir
Omit the topmost directory of the package when unpacking. true or false. Defaults to false.
prefix
Custom installation prefix passed to the --prefix option of the configure script. Defaults to the location of the part. Note that this is a convenience shortcut which assumes that the default configure command is used to configure the package. If the configure-command option is used to define a custom configure command no automatic --prefix injection takes place. You can also set the --prefix parameter explicitly in configure-options.
shared
See documentation of slapos.recipe.build’s default recipe.
md5sum
MD5 checksum for the package file. If available the MD5 checksum of the downloaded package will be compared to this value and if the values do not match the execution of the recipe will fail.
make-binary
Path to the make program. Defaults to ‘make’ which should work on any system that has the make program available in the system PATH.
make-options
Extra KEY=VALUE options included in the invocation of the make program. Multiple options can be given on separate lines to increase readability.
make-targets
Targets for the make command. Defaults to ‘install’ which will be enough to install most software packages. You only need to use this if you want to build alternate targets. Each target must be given on a separate line.
configure-command
Name of the configure command that will be run to generate the Makefile. This defaults to ./configure which is fine for packages that come with a configure script. You may wish to change this when compiling packages with a different set up. See the Compiling a Perl package section for an example.
configure-options
Extra options to be given to the configure script. By default only the --prefix option is passed which is set to the part directory. Each option must be given on a separate line.
patch-binary
Path to the patch program. Defaults to ‘patch’ which should work on any system that has the patch program available in the system PATH.
patch-options
Options passed to the patch program. Defaults to -p0.
patches
List of patch files to the applied to the extracted source. Each file should be given on a separate line.
pre-configure-hook
Custom python script that will be executed before running the configure script. The format of the options is:
/path/to/the/module.py:name_of_callable url:name_of_callable url#md5sum:name_of_callablewhere the first part is a filesystem path or url to the python module and the second part is the name of the callable in the module that will be called. The callable will be passed three parameters in the following order:
The options dictionary from the recipe.
The global buildout dictionary.
A dictionary containing the current os.environ augmented with the part specific overrides.
The callable is not expected to return anything.
pre-make-hook
Custom python script that will be executed before running make. The format and semantics are the same as with the pre-configure-hook option.
post-make-hook
Custom python script that will be executed after running make. The format and semantics are the same as with the pre-configure-hook option.
pre-configure
Shell command that will be executed before running configure script. It takes the same effect as pre-configure-hook option except it’s shell command.
pre-build
Shell command that will be executed before running make. It takes the same effect as pre-make-hook option except it’s shell command.
pre-install
Shell command that will be executed before running make install.
post-install
Shell command that will be executed after running make. It takes the same effect as post-make-hook option except it’s shell command.
keep-compile-dir
Switch to optionally keep the temporary directory where the package was compiled. This is mostly useful for other recipes that use this recipe to compile a software but wish to do some additional steps not handled by this recipe. The location of the compile directory is stored in options['compile-directory']. Accepted values are true or false, defaults to false.
promises
List the pathes and files should be existed after install part. The file or path must be absolute path. One line one item
If any item doesn’t exist, the recipe shows a warning message. The default value is empty.
environment
See documentation of slapos.recipe.build’s default recipe.
Additionally, the recipe honors the download-cache option set in the [buildout] section and stores the downloaded files under it. If the value is not set a directory called downloads will be created in the root of the buildout and the download-cache option set accordingly.
The recipe will first check if there is a local copy of the package before downloading it from the net. Files can be shared among different buildouts by setting the download-cache to the same location.
The recipe honors the prefix option set in the [buildout] section either. It implicts all the parts which recipe is slapos.recipe.cmmi in this buildout process will be installed in the same prefix option in the [buildout]. Besides, once it takes effects, recipe will return all the installed files in the prefix directory. The own prefix of part will disable this behaviour.
If the buildout section has a valid prefix option, the recipe will add it to environmet variables as the following:
PATH=${buildout:prefix}/bin:$PATH
CPPFLAGS=-I${buildout:prefix} $CPPFLAGS
CFLAGS=-I${buildout:prefix} $CFFLAGS
CXXFLAGS=-I${buildout:prefix} $CXXFLAGS
LDFLAGS=-L${buildout:prefix}/lib
Example usage
We’ll use a few tarballs to demonstrate the recipe. We’ll modify one of them in-place but we don’t want to alter the source tree.
>>> import os
>>> src = join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'testdata')
>>> ls(src)
- Foo-Bar-0.0.0.tar.gz
- haproxy-1.4.8-dummy.tar.gz
- package-0.0.0.tar.gz
>>> package_path = join(tmpdir('testdata'), 'package-0.0.0.tar.gz')
>>> os.symlink(join(src, 'package-0.0.0.tar.gz'), package_path)
The package contains a dummy configure script that will simply echo the options it was called with and create a Makefile that will do the same.
Let’s create a buildout to build and install the package.
>>> write('buildout.cfg',
... """
... [buildout]
... newest = true
... parts = package
...
... [package]
... recipe = slapos.recipe.cmmi
... url = file://%s
... """ % package_path)
This will download, extract and build our demo package with the default build options.
>>> print(system(buildout)) #doctest: +ELLIPSIS +NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE Installing package. configure --prefix=/sample_buildout/parts/package building package installing package <BLANKLINE>
Check option “promises”
>>> write('buildout.cfg',
... """
... [buildout]
... newest = false
... parts = packagex
...
... [packagex]
... recipe = slapos.recipe.cmmi
... url = file://%s
... promises = /usr/bin/myfoo
... """ % package_path)
This will download, extract and build our demo package with the default build options.
>>> print(system(buildout)) Uninstalling package. Installing packagex. configure --prefix=/sample_buildout/parts/packagex building package installing package packagex: could not find promise '/usr/bin/myfoo' <BLANKLINE>
As we can see the configure script was called with the --prefix option by default followed by calls to make and make install.
Installing a Perl package
The recipe can be used to install packages that use a slightly different build process. Perl packages often come with a Makefile.PL script that performs the same task as a configure script and generates a Makefile.
We can build and install such a package by overriding the configure-command option. The following example builds a Foo::Bar perl module and installs it in a custom location within the buildout:
>>> write('buildout.cfg',
... """
... [buildout]
... newest = false
... parts = foobar
... perl_lib = ${buildout:directory}/perl_lib
...
... [foobar]
... recipe = slapos.recipe.cmmi
... configure-command = perl -I${buildout:perl_lib}/lib/perl5 Makefile.PL INSTALL_BASE=${buildout:perl_lib}
... url = file://%s/Foo-Bar-0.0.0.tar.gz
... """ % src)
>>> print(system(buildout))
Uninstalling packagex.
Installing foobar.
building package
installing package
Installing a package without an autoconf like system
Some packages do not use a configuration mechanism and simply provide a Makefile for building. It is common in these cases that the build process is controlled entirely by direct options to make. We can build such a package by faking a configure command that does nothing and passing the appropriate options to make. The true utility found in most shell environments is a good candidate for this although anything that returns a zero exit code would do.
We are using a dummy “HAProxy” package as an example of a package with only a Makefile and using explicit make options to control the build process.
>>> write('buildout.cfg', ... """ ... [buildout] ... newest = false ... parts = haproxy ... ... [haproxy] ... recipe = slapos.recipe.cmmi ... configure-command = true ... make-options = ... TARGET=linux26 ... CPU=i686 ... USE_PCRE=1 ... url = file://%s/haproxy-1.4.8-dummy.tar.gz ... """ % src)>>> print(system(buildout)) Uninstalling foobar. Installing haproxy. Building HAProxy 1.4.8 (dummy package) TARGET: linux26 CPU: i686 USE_PCRE: 1 Installing haproxy
Installing checkouts
Sometimes instead of downloading and building an existing tarball we need to work with code that is already available on the filesystem, for example an SVN checkout.
Instead of providing the url option we will provide a path option to the directory containing the source code.
Let’s demonstrate this by first unpacking our test package to the filesystem and building that.
>>> checkout_dir = tmpdir('checkout') >>> import setuptools.archive_util >>> setuptools.archive_util.unpack_archive(package_path, checkout_dir) >>> ls(checkout_dir) d package-0.0.0>>> write('buildout.cfg', ... """ ... [buildout] ... newest = false ... parts = package ... ... [package] ... recipe = slapos.recipe.cmmi ... path = %s/package-0.0.0 ... """ % checkout_dir)>>> print(system(buildout)) Uninstalling haproxy. Installing package. package: Using local source directory: /checkout/package-0.0.0 configure --prefix=/sample_buildout/parts/package building package installing package
Since using the path implies that the source code has been acquired outside of the control of the recipe also the responsibility of managing it is outside of the recipe.
Depending on the software you may need to manually run make clean etc. between buildout runs if you make changes to the code. Also, the keep-compile-dir has no effect when path is used.
Advanced configuration
The above options are enough to build most packages. However, in some cases it is not enough and we need to control the build process more. Let’s try again with a new buildout and provide more options.
>>> write('buildout.cfg',
... """
... [buildout]
... newest = false
... parts = package
...
... [package]
... recipe = slapos.recipe.cmmi
... url = file://%s
... md5sum = 6b94295c042a91ea3203857326bc9209
... prefix = /somewhere/else
... environment =
... CFLAGS=-I/sw/include
... LDFLAGS=-L/sw/lib -L/some/extra/lib
... configure-options =
... --with-threads
... --without-foobar
... make-targets =
... install
... install-lib
... patches =
... patches/configure.patch
... patches/Makefile.dist.patch
... """ % package_path)
This configuration uses custom configure options, environment variables, custom prefix, multiple make targets and also patches the source code before the scripts are run.
>>> print(system(buildout)) Uninstalling package. Installing package. package: Applying patches package: [ENV] CFLAGS = -I/sw/include package: [ENV] LDFLAGS = -L/sw/lib -L/some/extra/lib patching file configure patching file Makefile.dist patched-configure --prefix=/somewhere/else --with-threads --without-foobar building patched package installing patched package installing patched package-lib <BLANKLINE>
Customizing the build process
Sometimes even the above is not enough and you need to be able to control the process in even more detail. One such use case would be to perform dynamic substitutions on the source code (possible based on information from the buildout) which cannot be done with static patches or to simply run arbitrary commands.
The recipe allows you to write custom python scripts that hook into the build process. You can define a script to be run:
before the configure script is executed (pre-configure-hook)
before the make process is executed (pre-make-hook)
after the make process is finished (post-make-hook)
Each option needs to contain the following information
/full/path/to/the/python/module.py:name_of_callable
where the callable object (here name_of_callable) is expected to take three parameters:
The options dictionary from the recipe.
The global buildout dictionary.
A dictionary containing the current os.environ augmented with the part specific overrides.
These parameters should provide the callable all the necessary information to perform any part specific customization to the build process.
Let’s create a simple python script to demonstrate the functionality. You can naturally have separate modules for each hook or simply use just one or two hooks. Here we use just a single module.
>>> hooks = tmpdir('hooks')
>>> write(hooks, 'customhandlers.py',
... """
... import logging
... log = logging.getLogger('hook')
...
... def preconfigure(options, buildout, environment):
... log.info('This is pre-configure-hook!')
...
... def premake(options, buildout, environment):
... log.info('This is pre-make-hook!')
...
... def postmake(options, buildout, environment):
... log.info('This is post-make-hook!')
...
... """)
and a new buildout to try it out
>>> write('buildout.cfg', ... """ ... [buildout] ... newest = false ... parts = package ... ... [package] ... recipe = slapos.recipe.cmmi ... url = file://%(package_path)s ... pre-configure-hook = %(module)s:preconfigure ... pre-make-hook = %(module)s:premake ... post-make-hook = %(module)s:postmake ... """ % dict(package_path=package_path, ... module=join(hooks, 'customhandlers.py')))>>> print(system(buildout)) Uninstalling package. Installing package. package: Executing pre-configure-hook hook: This is pre-configure-hook! configure --prefix=/sample_buildout/parts/package package: Executing pre-make-hook hook: This is pre-make-hook! building package installing package package: Executing post-make-hook hook: This is post-make-hook!
- If you prefer to use shell script, then try these options:
pre-configure pre-build pre-install post-install
Let’s create a buildout to use these options.
>>> write('buildout.cfg',
... """
... [buildout]
... newest = false
... parts = package
...
... [package]
... recipe = slapos.recipe.cmmi
... url = file://%s
... pre-configure = echo "Configure part: ${:_buildout_section_name_}"
... pre-build = echo "OH OH OH" > a.txt
... pre-install = cat a.txt
... post-install = rm -f a.txt && echo "Finished."
... """ % package_path)
This will run pre-configure, pre-build, pre-install, post-install as shell command in the corresponding stage.
>>> print(system(buildout)) Uninstalling package. Installing package. package: Executing pre-configure Configure part: package configure --prefix=/sample_buildout/parts/package package: Executing pre-build building package package: Executing pre-install OH OH OH installing package package: Executing post-install Finished.
Union prefix
If the recipe finds prefix option in the section buildout, it will
First, use this prefix as configure prefix, if configure-command isn’t set in the part, or make-binary equals ‘make’ and make-target includes pattern ‘s+install.*’
Second, return all the new installed files in the prefix when the recipe returns after intall.
Finally, change some environment variables(See first section).
Let’s see what happens when set prefix in the buildout section:
>>> write('buildout.cfg', ... """ ... [buildout] ... newest = false ... parts = package ... prefix = ${buildout:directory}/mylocal ... ... [package] ... recipe = slapos.recipe.cmmi ... url = file://%s ... pre-configure = mkdir -p "${buildout:prefix}" ... """ % package_path)>>> print(system(buildout)) Uninstalling package. Installing package. package: Executing pre-configure configure --prefix=/sample_buildout/mylocal building package installing package <BLANKLINE>
Look these environment variables and prefix’s value, you know what’s the differences.
If part has its own prefix, it will disable above behavious. For example,
>>> write('buildout.cfg', ... """ ... [buildout] ... newest = false ... parts = package ... prefix = ${buildout:directory}/mylocal ... ... [package] ... recipe = slapos.recipe.cmmi ... prefix = ${buildout:parts-directory}/package ... url = file://%s ... pre-configure = rm -rf "${buildout:prefix}" ... post-install = test -d "${buildout:prefix}" || echo "None" ... """ % package_path)>>> print(system(buildout)) Uninstalling package. Installing package. package: Executing pre-configure configure --prefix=/sample_buildout/parts/package building package installing package package: Executing post-install None
Then no extra environment variables such as CFLAGS etc., and no ${buildout:prefix} directory is created.
The following example shows how to install package, package-2 in one prefix:
>>> write('buildout.cfg', ... """ ... [buildout] ... newest = false ... parts = package package-2 ... prefix = ${buildout:directory}/mylocal ... ... [package] ... recipe = slapos.recipe.cmmi ... url = file://%s ... pre-install = sleep 2; mkdir -p "${buildout:prefix}" ; echo x >"${buildout:prefix}/a.txt" ... [package-2] ... recipe = slapos.recipe.cmmi ... url = file://%s ... pre-install = sleep 2; mkdir -p "${buildout:prefix}" ; echo x >"${buildout:prefix}/b.txt"; echo ... """ % (package_path, package_path))>>> print(system(buildout)) Uninstalling package. Installing package. configure --prefix=/sample_buildout/mylocal building package package: Executing pre-install installing package Installing package-2. configure --prefix=/sample_buildout/mylocal building package package-2: Executing pre-install <BLANKLINE> installing package <BLANKLINE>>>> ls('mylocal') - a.txt - b.txt
Next we unintall package-2, it should only remove file b.txt (which seems broken currently as nothing it is removing):
>>> write('buildout.cfg', ... """ ... [buildout] ... newest = false ... parts = package ... prefix = ${buildout:directory}/mylocal ... ... [package] ... recipe = slapos.recipe.cmmi ... url = file://%s ... pre-install = sleep 2; mkdir -p "${buildout:prefix}" ; echo x >"${buildout:prefix}/a.txt" ... """ % package_path)>>> print(system(buildout)) Uninstalling package-2. Updating package.>>> ls('mylocal') - a.txt - b.txt
Magic prefix
If configure-command is set, the recipe wouldn’t insert “–prefix” into configure-options. Then it checks whether both of make-binary and make-targets aren’t set, if so, string “prefix=xxx” will be appended in the make-targets. xxx is the final prefix of this recipe. We call it Magic Prefix.
In these options magic prefix can be represented by %(prefix)s:
configure-command, configure-options, make-binary, make-options, make-targets, pre-configure, pre-build, pre-install, post-install
For example:
[bzip2] post-install = rm %(prefix)s/*.h
The other part can refer to magic prefix of this part by ${part:prefix}, it will return the magic prefix, other than literal value in the part section. For example:
>>> write('buildout.cfg',
... """
... [buildout]
... newest = false
... parts = package package-2
... prefix = /mytemp
...
... [package]
... recipe = slapos.recipe.cmmi
... url = file://%s
... configure-command = true
... make-binary = true
...
... [package-2]
... recipe = slapos.recipe.cmmi
... url = file://%s
... configure-command = true
... make-binary = true
... post-install = echo package magic prefix is ${package:prefix}
... """ % (package_path, package_path))
>>> print(system(buildout))
Uninstalling package.
Installing package.
Installing package-2.
package-2: Executing post-install
package magic prefix is /mytemp
<BLANKLINE>
Here it’s another sample, we change Makefile before installing so it can display “prefix” value in the stdout.
>>> write('buildout.cfg', ... """ ... [buildout] ... newest = false ... parts = package ... ... [package] ... recipe = slapos.recipe.cmmi ... url = file://%s ... configure-command = ./configure ... pre-install = sed -i -e "s/installing package/installing package at \\$\\$prefix /g" Makefile ... """ % package_path)>>> print(system(buildout)) Uninstalling package-2. Uninstalling package. Installing package. configure building package package: Executing pre-install installing package at /sample_buildout/parts/package
You even can include pattern %(prefix)s in this option, it will be replaced with the recipe final prefix.
>>> write('buildout.cfg', ... """ ... [buildout] ... newest = false ... parts = package ... ... [package] ... recipe = slapos.recipe.cmmi ... url = file://%s ... configure-command = ./configure ... make-targets = install-lib prefix=%%(prefix)s ... pre-install = sed -i -e "s/installing package/installing package at \\$\\$prefix /g" Makefile ... """ % package_path)>>> print(system(buildout)) Uninstalling package. Installing package. configure building package package: Executing pre-install installing package at /sample_buildout/parts/package -lib
For even more specific needs you can write your own recipe that uses slapos.recipe.cmmi and set the keep-compile-dir option to true. You can then continue from where this recipe finished by reading the location of the compile directory from options['compile-directory'] from your own recipe.
Contributors
Kai Lautaportti (dokai), Author
Cédric de Saint Martin (desaintmartin)
Marc Abramowitz (msabramo)
Nicolas Dumazet (nicdumz)
Guy Rozendorn (grzn)
Marco Mariani (mmariani)
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