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22.\" Author: James da Silva, Systems Design and Analysis Group
23.\"			   Computer Science Department
24.\"			   University of Maryland at College Park
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26.Dd June 14, 1994
27.Dt CRUNCHGEN 1
28.Os BSD 4
29.Sh NAME
30.Nm \&crunchgen
31.Nd generates build environment for a crunched binary
32.Sh SYNOPSIS
33.Nm \&crunchgen
34.Op Fl fq
35.Op Fl m Ar makefile-name
36.Op Fl c Ar c-file-name
37.Op Fl e Ar exec-file-name
38.Op Ar conf-file
39.Sh DESCRIPTION
40
41A crunched binary is a program made up of many other programs linked
42together into a single executable.  The crunched binary main()
43function determines which component program to run by the contents of
44argv[0].  The main reason to crunch programs together is for fitting
45as many programs as possible onto an installation or system recovery
46floppy.
47
48.Pp
49.Nm Crunchgen
50reads in the specifications in
51.Ar conf-file
52for a crunched binary, and generates a Makefile and accompanying
53top-level C source file that when built create the crunched executable
54file from the component programs.  For each component program,
55.Nm crunchgen
56can optionally attempt to determine the object (.o) files that make up
57the program from its source directory Makefile.  This information is
58cached between runs.
59.Nm Crunchgen
60uses the companion program
61.Nm crunchide
62to eliminate link-time conflicts between the component programs by
63hiding all unnecessary symbols.
64
65.Pp
66After
67.Nm crunchgen
68is run, the crunched binary can be built by running ``make -f
69<conf-name>.mk''.  The component programs' object files must already
70be built.  A ``objs'' target, included in the output makefile, will
71run make in each component program's source dir to build the object
72files for the user.  This is not done automatically since in release
73engineering circumstances it is generally not desireable to be
74modifying objects in other directories.
75
76.Pp
77The options are as follows:
78.Bl -tag -width indent
79.It Fl c Ar c-file-name
80Set output C file name to
81.Ar c-file-name .
82The default name is ``<conf-name>.c''.
83.It Fl e Ar exec-file-name
84Set crunched binary executable file name to
85.Ar exec-file-name .
86The default name is ``<conf-name>''.
87.It Fl f
88Flush cache.  Forces the recalculation of cached parameters.
89.It Fl m Ar makefile-name
90Set output Makefile name to
91.Ar makefile-name .
92The default name is ``<conf-name>.mk''.
93.It Fl q
94Quiet operation.  Status messages are suppressed.
95.El
96.Sh CRUNCHGEN CONFIGURATION FILE COMMANDS
97
98.Nm Crunchgen
99reads specifications from the
100.Ar conf-file
101that describe the components of the crunched binary.  In its simplest
102use, the component program names are merely listed along with the
103top-level source directories in which their sources can be found.
104.Nm Crunchgen
105then calculates (via the source makefiles) and caches the
106list of object files and their locations.  For more specialized
107situations, the user can specify by hand all the parameters that
108.Nm crunchgen
109needs.
110.Pp
111The
112.Ar conf-file
113commands are as follows:
114.Bl -tag -width indent
115.It Nm srcdirs Ar dirname ...
116A list of source trees in which the source directories of the
117component programs can be found.  These dirs are searched using the
118BSD ``<source-dir>/<progname>/'' convention.  Multiple
119.Nm srcdirs
120lines can be specified.  The directories are searched in the order
121they are given.
122.It Nm progs Ar progname ...
123A list of programs that make up the crunched binary.  Multiple
124.Nm progs
125lines can be specified.
126.It Nm libs Ar libspec ...
127A list of library specifications to be included in the crunched binary link.
128Multiple
129.Nm libs
130lines can be specified.
131.It Nm ln Ar progname linkname
132Causes the crunched binary to invoke
133.Ar progname
134whenever
135.Ar linkname
136appears in argv[0].  This allows programs that change their behavior when
137run under different names to operate correctly.
138.El
139
140To handle specialized situations, such as when the source is not
141available or not built via a conventional Makefile, the following
142.Nm special
143commands can be used to set
144.Nm crunchgen
145parameters for a component program.
146.Bl -tag -width indent
147.It Nm special Ar progname Nm srcdir Ar pathname
148Set the source directory for
149.Ar progname .
150This is normally calculated by searching the specified
151.Nm srcdirs
152for a directory named
153.Ar progname .
154.It Nm special Ar progname Nm objdir Ar pathname
155Set the obj directory for
156.Ar progname .
157This is normally calculated by looking for a directory named
158.Dq Pa obj
159under the
160.Ar srcdir ,
161and if that is not found, the
162.Ar srcdir
163itself becomes the
164.Ar objdir .
165.It Nm special Ar progname Nm objs Ar object-file-name ...
166Set the list of object files for program
167.Ar progname .
168This is normally calculated by constructing a temporary makefile that includes
169.Dq Nm srcdir / Pa Makefile
170and outputs the value of $(OBJS).
171.It Nm special Ar progname Nm objpaths Ar full-pathname-to-object-file ...
172Sets the pathnames of the object files for program
173.Ar progname .
174This is normally calculated by prepending the
175.Nm objdir
176pathname to each file in the
177.Nm objs
178list.
179.El
180
181.Pp
182Only the
183.Nm objpaths
184parameter is actually needed by
185.Nm crunchgen ,
186but it is calculated from
187.Nm objdir
188and
189.Nm objs ,
190which are in turn calculated from
191.Nm srcdir ,
192so is sometimes convenient to specify the earlier parameters and let
193.Nm crunchgen
194calculate forward from there if it can.
195
196.Pp
197The makefile produced by
198.Nm crunchgen
199contains an optional
200.Ar objs
201target that will build the object files for each component program by
202running make inside that program's source directory.  For this to work the
203.Nm srcdir
204and
205.Nm objs
206parameters must also be valid.  If they are not valid for a particular program, that
207program is skipped in the
208.Ar objs
209target.
210.Sh EXAMPLE
211Here is an example
212.Nm crunchgen
213input conf file, named
214.Dq Pa kcopy.conf :
215.Pp
216.nf
217	srcdirs /usr/src/bin /usr/src/sbin
218
219	progs test cp echo sh fsck halt init mount umount myinstall
220	ln test [       # test can be invoked via [
221	ln sh -sh       # init invokes the shell with "-sh" in argv[0]
222
223	special myprog objpaths /homes/leroy/src/myinstall.o # no sources
224
225	libs -lutil -lcrypt
226.fi
227.Pp
228This conf file specifies a small crunched binary consisting of some
229basic system utilities plus a homegrown install program ``myinstall'',
230for which no source directory is specified, but its object file is
231specified directly with the
232.Nm special
233line.
234.Pp
235The crunched binary ``kcopy'' can be built as follows:
236.Pp
237.nf
238	% crunchgen -m Makefile kcopy.conf    # gen Makefile and kcopy.c
239	% make objs             # build the component progams' .o files
240	% make                  # build the crunched binary kcopy
241	% kcopy sh              # test that this invokes a sh shell
242	$			# it works!
243.fi
244.Pp
245At this point the binary ``kcopy'' can be copied onto an install floppy
246and hard-linked to the names of the component programs.
247.Sh SEE ALSO
248.Xr crunchide 1
249.Sh CAVEATS
250While
251.Nm crunch
252takes care to eliminate link conflicts between the component programs
253of a crunched binary, conflicts are still possible between the
254libraries that are linked in.  Some shuffling in the order of
255libraries may be required, and in some rare cases two libraries may
256have an unresolveable conflict and thus cannot be crunched together.
257.Pp
258Some versions of the BSD build environment do not by default build the
259intermediate object file for single-source file programs.  The ``make
260objs'' target must then be used to get those object files built, or
261some other arrangements made.
262.Sh AUTHOR
263.Nm Crunch
264was written by James da Silva <jds@cs.umd.edu>.
265.sp 0
266Copyright (c) 1994 University of Maryland.  All Rights Reserved.
267