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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
25.\" $FreeBSD$
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27.Dd September 29, 1997
28.Dt CRUNCHGEN 1
29.Os BSD 4
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm \&crunchgen
32.Nd generates build environment for a crunched binary
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34.Nm \&crunchgen
35.Op Fl fql
36.Op Fl h Ar makefile-header-name
37.Op Fl m Ar makefile-name
38.Op Fl c Ar c-file-name
39.Op Fl e Ar exec-file-name
40.Op Ar conf-file
41.Sh DESCRIPTION
42
43A crunched binary is a program made up of many other programs linked
44together into a single executable.  The crunched binary main()
45function determines which component program to run by the contents of
46argv[0].  The main reason to crunch programs together is for fitting
47as many programs as possible onto an installation or system recovery
48floppy.
49
50.Pp
51.Nm Crunchgen
52reads in the specifications in
53.Ar conf-file
54for a crunched binary, and generates a Makefile and accompanying
55top-level C source file that when built create the crunched executable
56file from the component programs.  For each component program,
57.Nm crunchgen
58can optionally attempt to determine the object (.o) files that make up
59the program from its source directory Makefile.  This information is
60cached between runs.
61.Nm Crunchgen
62uses the companion program
63.Nm crunchide
64to eliminate link-time conflicts between the component programs by
65hiding all unnecessary symbols.
66
67.Pp
68After
69.Nm
70is run, the crunched binary can be built by running ``make -f
71<conf-name>.mk''.  The component programs' object files must already
72be built.  A ``objs'' target, included in the output makefile, will
73run make in each component program's source dir to build the object
74files for the user.  This is not done automatically since in release
75engineering circumstances it is generally not desirable to be
76modifying objects in other directories.
77
78.Pp
79The options are as follows:
80.Bl -tag -width indent
81.It Fl c Ar c-file-name
82Set output C file name to
83.Ar c-file-name .
84The default name is ``<conf-name>.c''.
85.It Fl e Ar exec-file-name
86Set crunched binary executable file name to
87.Ar exec-file-name .
88The default name is ``<conf-name>''.
89.It Fl f
90Flush cache.  Forces the recalculation of cached parameters.
91.It Fl l
92List names.  Lists the names this binary will respond to.
93.It Fl h Ar makefile-header-name
94Set the name of a file to be included at the beginning of the
95Makefiles generated by
96.Nm crunchgen .
97This is useful to define some make variables such as
98.Ar RELEASE_CRUNCH
99or similar, which might affect the behaviour of make and
100are annoying to pass through environment variables.
101.It Fl m Ar makefile-name
102Set output Makefile name to
103.Ar makefile-name .
104The default name is ``<conf-name>.mk''.
105.It Fl q
106Quiet operation.  Status messages are suppressed.
107.El
108.Sh CRUNCHGEN CONFIGURATION FILE COMMANDS
109
110.Nm Crunchgen
111reads specifications from the
112.Ar conf-file
113that describe the components of the crunched binary.  In its simplest
114use, the component program names are merely listed along with the
115top-level source directories in which their sources can be found.
116.Nm Crunchgen
117then calculates (via the source makefiles) and caches the
118list of object files and their locations.  For more specialized
119situations, the user can specify by hand all the parameters that
120.Nm
121needs.
122.Pp
123The
124.Ar conf-file
125commands are as follows:
126.Bl -tag -width indent
127.It Nm srcdirs Ar dirname ...
128A list of source trees in which the source directories of the
129component programs can be found.  These dirs are searched using the
130BSD ``<source-dir>/<progname>/'' convention.  Multiple
131.Nm srcdirs
132lines can be specified.  The directories are searched in the order
133they are given.
134.It Nm progs Ar progname ...
135A list of programs that make up the crunched binary.  Multiple
136.Nm progs
137lines can be specified.
138.It Nm libs Ar libspec ...
139A list of library specifications to be included in the crunched binary link.
140Multiple
141.Nm libs
142lines can be specified.
143.It Nm ln Ar progname linkname
144Causes the crunched binary to invoke
145.Ar progname
146whenever
147.Ar linkname
148appears in argv[0].  This allows programs that change their behavior when
149run under different names to operate correctly.
150.El
151
152To handle specialized situations, such as when the source is not
153available or not built via a conventional Makefile, the following
154.Nm special
155commands can be used to set
156.Nm
157parameters for a component program.
158.Bl -tag -width indent
159.It Nm special Ar progname Nm srcdir Ar pathname
160Set the source directory for
161.Ar progname .
162This is normally calculated by searching the specified
163.Nm srcdirs
164for a directory named
165.Ar progname .
166.It Nm special Ar progname Nm objdir Ar pathname
167Set the obj directory for
168.Ar progname .
169This is normally calculated by looking for a directory named
170.Dq Pa obj
171under the
172.Ar srcdir ,
173and if that is not found, the
174.Ar srcdir
175itself becomes the
176.Ar objdir .
177.It Nm special Ar progname Nm objs Ar object-file-name ...
178Set the list of object files for program
179.Ar progname .
180This is normally calculated by constructing a temporary makefile that includes
181.Dq Nm srcdir / Pa Makefile
182and outputs the value of $(OBJS).
183.It Nm special Ar progname Nm objpaths Ar full-pathname-to-object-file ...
184Sets the pathnames of the object files for program
185.Ar progname .
186This is normally calculated by prepending the
187.Nm objdir
188pathname to each file in the
189.Nm objs
190list.
191.It Nm special Ar progname Nm objvar Ar variable_name
192Sets the name of the Make variable which holds the list of
193object files for program
194.Ar progname .
195This is normally
196.Nm OBJS
197but some Makefiles might like to use other conventions or
198prepend the program's name to the variable, e.g.
199.Nm SSHD_OBJS .
200.It Nm special Ar progname Nm keep Ar symbol-name ...
201Add specified list of symbols to the keep list for program
202.Ar progname .
203An underscore is prepended to each symbol and it becomes the argument to a
204.Fl k
205option for the
206.Xr crunchide 1
207phase.
208This option is to be used as a last resort as its use can cause a
209symbol conflict, however in certain instances it may be the only way to
210have a symbol resolve.
211.El
212
213.Pp
214Only the
215.Nm objpaths
216parameter is actually needed by
217.Nm crunchgen ,
218but it is calculated from
219.Nm objdir
220and
221.Nm objs ,
222which are in turn calculated from
223.Nm srcdir ,
224so is sometimes convenient to specify the earlier parameters and let
225.Nm
226calculate forward from there if it can.
227
228.Pp
229The makefile produced by
230.Nm
231contains an optional
232.Ar objs
233target that will build the object files for each component program by
234running make inside that program's source directory.  For this to work the
235.Nm srcdir
236and
237.Nm objs
238parameters must also be valid.  If they are not valid for a particular program, that
239program is skipped in the
240.Ar objs
241target.
242.Sh EXAMPLE
243Here is an example
244.Nm
245input conf file, named
246.Dq Pa kcopy.conf :
247.Pp
248.nf
249	srcdirs /usr/src/bin /usr/src/sbin
250
251	progs test cp echo sh fsck halt init mount umount myinstall
252	ln test [       # test can be invoked via [
253	ln sh -sh       # init invokes the shell with "-sh" in argv[0]
254
255	special myprog objpaths /homes/leroy/src/myinstall.o # no sources
256
257	libs -lutil -lcrypt
258.fi
259.Pp
260This conf file specifies a small crunched binary consisting of some
261basic system utilities plus a homegrown install program ``myinstall'',
262for which no source directory is specified, but its object file is
263specified directly with the
264.Nm special
265line.
266.Pp
267The crunched binary ``kcopy'' can be built as follows:
268.Pp
269.nf
270	% crunchgen -m Makefile kcopy.conf    # gen Makefile and kcopy.c
271	% make objs             # build the component programs' .o files
272	% make                  # build the crunched binary kcopy
273	% kcopy sh              # test that this invokes a sh shell
274	$			# it works!
275.fi
276.Pp
277At this point the binary ``kcopy'' can be copied onto an install floppy
278and hard-linked to the names of the component programs.
279.Sh SEE ALSO
280.Xr crunchide 1
281.Sh CAVEATS
282While
283.Nm crunch
284takes care to eliminate link conflicts between the component programs
285of a crunched binary, conflicts are still possible between the
286libraries that are linked in.  Some shuffling in the order of
287libraries may be required, and in some rare cases two libraries may
288have an unresolvable conflict and thus cannot be crunched together.
289.Pp
290Some versions of the BSD build environment do not by default build the
291intermediate object file for single-source file programs.  The ``make
292objs'' target must then be used to get those object files built, or
293some other arrangements made.
294.Sh AUTHORS
295.Nm Crunch
296was written by
297.An James da Silva Aq jds@cs.umd.edu .
298Copyright (c) 1994 University of Maryland.  All Rights Reserved.
299