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22Writing Library Makefiles in ON
23===============================
24
25 Copyright 2004 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
26 Use is subject to license terms.
27
28ident	"%Z%%M%	%I%	%E% SMI"
29
30Introduction
31------------
32
33This document guides you through the gnarly process of writing library
34Makefiles for the ON consolidation.  It assumes that you're comfortable with
35make(1) and are somewhat familiar with the ON Makefile standards outlined in
36/shared/ON/general_docs/make_std.txt.
37
38Makefile Overview
39-----------------
40
41Your library should consist of a hierarchical collection of Makefiles:
42
43	lib/<library>/Makefile:
44
45	  This is your library's top-level Makefile.  It should contain rules
46	  for building any ISA-independent targets, such as installing header
47	  files and building message catalogs, but should defer all other
48	  targets to ISA-specific Makefiles.
49
50	lib/<library>/Makefile.com
51
52	  This is your library's common Makefile.  It should contain rules
53	  and macros which are common to all ISAs. This Makefile should never
54	  be built explicitly, but instead should be included (using the make
55	  include mechanism) by all of your ISA-specific Makefiles.
56
57	lib/<library>/<isa>/Makefile
58
59	  These are your library's ISA-specific Makefiles, one per ISA
60	  (usually sparc and i386, and sometimes sparcv9 and ia64).  These
61	  Makefiles should include your common Makefile and then provide any
62	  needed ISA-specific rules and definitions, perhaps overriding those
63	  provided in your common Makefile.
64
65To simplify their maintenance and construction, $(SRC)/lib has a handful of
66provided Makefiles that yours must include; the examples provided throughout
67the document will show how to use them.  Please be sure to consult these
68Makefiles before introducing your own custom build macros or rules.
69
70	lib/Makefile.lib:
71
72	  This contains the bulk of the macros for building shared objects.
73
74	lib/Makefile.lib.64
75
76	  This contains macros for building 64-bit objects, and should be
77	  included in Makfiles for 64-bit native ISAs.
78
79	lib/Makefile.rootfs
80
81	  This contains macro overrides for libraries that install into /lib
82	  (rather than /usr/lib).
83
84	lib/Makefile.targ
85
86	  This contains rules for building shared objects.
87
88The remainder of this document discusses how to write each of your Makefiles
89in detail, and provides examples from the libinetutil library.
90
91The Library Top-level Makefile
92------------------------------
93
94As described above, your top-level library Makefile should contain
95rules for building ISA-independent targets, but should defer the
96building of all other targets to ISA-specific Makefiles.  The
97ISA-independent targets usually consist of:
98
99	install_h
100
101	  Install all library header files into the proto area.  Can be
102	  omitted if your library has no header files.
103
104	check
105
106	  Check all library header files for hdrchk compliance.  Can be
107	  omitted if your library has no header files.
108
109	_msg
110
111	  Build and install a message catalog.  Can be omitted if your
112	  library has no message catalog.
113
114Of course, other targets are (such as `cstyle') are fine as well, as long as
115they are ISA-independent.
116
117The ROOTHDRS and CHECKHDRS targets are provided in lib/Makefile.lib to make
118it easy for you to install and check your library's header files.  To use
119these targets, your Makefile must set the HDRS to the list of your library's
120header files to install and HDRDIR to the their location in the source tree.
121In addition, if your header files need to be installed in a location other
122than $(ROOT)/usr/include, your Makefile must also set ROOTHDRDIR to the
123appropriate location in the proto area.  Once HDRS, HDRDIR and (optionally)
124ROOTHDRDIR have been set, your Makefile need only contain
125
126	  install_h: $(ROOTHDRS)
127
128	  check: $(CHECKHDRS)
129
130to bind the provided targets to the standard `install_h' and `check' rules.
131
132Similar rules are provided (in $(SRC)/Makefile.msg.targ) to make it easy for
133you to build and install message catalogs from your library's source files.
134
135To install a catalog into the catalog directory in the proto area, define the
136POFILE macro to be the name of your catalog, and specify that the _msg target
137depends on $(MSGDOMAINPOFILE).  The examples below should clarify this.
138
139To build a message catalog from arbitrarily many message source files, use
140the BUILDPO.msgfiles macro.
141
142	  include ../Makefile.lib
143
144	  POFILE =	  libfoo.po
145	  MSGFILES =	  $(OBJECTS:%.o=%.i)
146
147	  # ...
148
149	  $(POFILE): $(MSGFILES)
150		$(BUILDPO.msgfiles)
151
152	  _msg: $(MSGDOMAINPOFILE)
153
154	  include $(SRC)/Makefile.msg.targ
155
156Note that this example doesn't use grep to find message files, since that can
157mask unreferenced files, and potentially lead to the inclusion of unwanted
158messages or omission of intended messages in the catalogs.  As such, MSGFILES
159should be derived from a known list of objects or sources.
160
161It is usually preferable to run the source through the C preprocessor prior
162to extracting messages.  To do this, use the ".i" suffix, as shown in the
163above example.  If you need to skip the C preprocessor, just use the native
164(.[ch]) suffix.
165
166The only time you shouldn't use BUILDPO.msgfiles as the preferred means of
167extracting messages in when you're extracting them from shell scripts; in
168that case, you can use the BUILDPO.pofiles macro as explained below.
169
170To build a message catalog from other message catalogs, or from source files
171that include shell scripts, use the BUILDPO.pofiles macro:
172
173	  include ../Makefile.lib
174
175	  SUBDIRS =	  $(MACH)
176
177	  POFILE =	  libfoo.po
178	  POFILES =	  $(SUBDIRS:%=%/_%.po)
179
180	  _msg :=	  TARGET = _msg
181
182	  # ...
183
184	  $(POFILE): $(POFILES)
185		$(BUILDPO.pofiles)
186
187	  _msg: $(MSGDOMAINPOFILE)
188
189	  include $(SRC)/Makefile.msg.targ
190
191The Makefile above would work in conjunction with the following in its
192subdirectories' Makefiles:
193
194	  POFILE =	  _thissubdir.po
195	  MSGFILES =	  $(OBJECTS:%.o=%.i)
196
197	  $(POFILE):	  $(MSGFILES)
198		  $(BUILDPO.msgfiles)
199
200	  _msg:		  $(POFILE)
201
202	  include $(SRC)/Makefile.msg.targ
203
204Since this POFILE will be combined with those in other subdirectories by the
205parent Makefile and that merged file will be installed into the proto area
206via MSGDOMAINPOFILE, there is no need to use MSGDOMAINPOFILE in this Makefile
207(in fact, using it would lead to duplicate messages in the catalog).
208
209When using any of these targets, keep in mind that other macros, like
210XGETFLAGS and TEXT_DOMAIN may also be set in your Makefile to override or
211augment the defaults provided in higher-level Makefiles.
212
213As previously mentioned, you should defer all ISA-specific targets to your
214ISA-specific Makefiles.  You can do this by:
215
216	1. Setting SUBDIRS to the list of directories to descend into:
217
218		SUBDIRS = $(MACH)
219
220	   Note that if your library is also built 64-bit, then you should
221	   also specify
222
223		$(BUILD64)SUBDIRS += $(MACH64)
224
225	   so that SUBDIRS contains $(MACH64) if and only if you're compiling
226	   on a 64-bit ISA.
227
228	2. Providing a common "descend into SUBDIRS" rule:
229
230		spec $(SUBDIRS): FRC
231			@cd $@; pwd; $(MAKE) $(TARGET)
232
233		FRC:
234
235	3. Providing a collection of conditional assignments that set TARGET
236	   appropriately:
237
238		all	:= TARGET= all
239		clean	:= TARGET= clean
240		clobber := TARGET= clobber
241		install := TARGET= install
242		lint	:= TARGET= lint
243
244	   The order doesn't matter, but alphabetical is preferable.
245
246	4. Having the aforementioned targets depend on SUBDIRS:
247
248		all clean clobber install: spec .WAIT $(SUBDIRS)
249
250		lint: $(SUBDIRS)
251
252	   A few notes are in order here:
253
254		* The `all' target must be listed first; the others might as
255		  well be listed alphabetically.
256
257		* The `lint' target is listed separately because there is
258		  nothing to lint in the spec subdirectory.
259
260		* The .WAIT between spec and $(SUBDIRS) is suboptimal but
261		  currently required to make sure that two different make
262		  invocations don't simultaneously build the mapfiles.  It
263		  will likely be replaced with a more sophisticated
264		  mechanism in the future.
265
266As an example of how all of this goes together, here's libinetutil's
267top-level library Makefile (copyright omitted):
268
269		include ../Makefile.lib
270
271		HDRS =		libinetutil.h
272		HDRDIR =	common
273		SUBDIRS =	$(MACH)
274		$(BUILD64)SUBDIRS += $(MACH64)
275
276		all :=		TARGET = all
277		clean :=	TARGET = clean
278		clobber :=	TARGET = clobber
279		install :=	TARGET = install
280		lint :=		TARGET = lint
281
282		.KEEP_STATE:
283
284		all clean clobber install: spec .WAIT $(SUBDIRS)
285
286		lint:		$(SUBDIRS)
287
288		install_h:	$(ROOTHDRS)
289
290		check:		$(CHECKHDRS)
291
292		$(SUBDIRS) spec: FRC
293			@cd $@; pwd; $(MAKE) $(TARGET)
294
295		FRC:
296
297		include ../Makefile.targ
298
299The Common Makefile
300-------------------
301
302In concept, your common Makefile should contain all of the rules and
303definitions that are the same on all ISAs.  However, for reasons of
304maintainability and cleanliness, you're encouraged to place even
305ISA-dependent rules and definitions, as long you express them in an
306ISA-independent way (e.g., by using $(MACH), $(TRANSMACH), and their kin).
307
308The common Makefile can be conceptually split up into four sections:
309
310	1. A copyright and comments section.  Please see the prototype
311	   files in usr/src/prototypes for examples of how to format the
312	   copyright message properly.  For brevity and clarity, this
313	   section has been omitted from the examples shown here.
314
315	2. A list of macros that must be defined prior to the inclusion of
316	   Makefile.lib.  This section is conceptually terminated by the
317	   inclusion of Makefile.lib, followed, if necessary, by the
318	   inclusion of Makefile.rootfs (only if the library is to be
319	   installed in /lib rather than the default /usr/lib).
320
321	3. A list of macros that need not be defined prior to the inclusion
322	   of Makefile.lib (or which must be defined following the inclusion
323	   of Makefile.lib, to override or augment its definitions).  This
324	   section is conceptually terminated by the .KEEP_STATE directive.
325
326	4. A list of targets.
327
328The first section is self-explanatory.  The second typically consists of the
329following macros:
330
331	LIBRARY
332
333	  Set to the name of the static version of your library, such
334	  as `libinetutil.a'.  You should always specify the `.a' suffix,
335	  since pattern-matching rules in higher-level Makefiles rely on it,
336	  even though static libraries are not normally built in ON, and
337	  are never installed in the proto area.  Note that the LIBS macro
338	  (described below) controls the types of libraries that are built
339	  when building your library.
340
341	  If you are building a loadable module (i.e., a shared object that
342	  is only linked at runtime with dlopen(3dl)), specify the name of
343	  the loadable module with a `.a' suffix, such as `devfsadm_mod.a'.
344
345	VERS
346
347	  Set to the version of your shared library, such as `.1'.  You
348	  actually do not need to set this prior to the inclusion of
349	  Makefile.lib, but it is good practice to do so since VERS and
350	  LIBRARY are so closely related.
351
352	OBJECTS
353
354	  Set to the list of object files contained in your library, such as
355	  `a.o b.o'.  Usually, this will be the same as your library's source
356	  files (except with .o extensions), but if your library compiles
357	  source files outside of the library directory itself, it will
358	  differ.  We'll see an example of this with libinetutil.
359
360The third section typically consists of the following macros:
361
362	LIBS
363
364	  Set to the list of the types of libraries to build when building
365	  your library.  For dynamic libraries, you should set this to
366	  `$(DYNLIB) $(LINTLIB)' so that a dynamic library and lint library
367	  are built.  For loadable modules, you should just list DYNLIB,
368	  since there's no point in building a lint library for libraries
369	  that are never linked at compile-time.
370
371	  If your library needs to be built as a static library (typically
372	  to be used in other parts of the build), you should set LIBS to
373	  `$(LIBRARY)'.  However, you should do this only when absolutely
374	  necessary, and you must *never* ship static libraries to customers.
375
376	ROOTLIBDIR (if your library installs to a nonstandard directory)
377
378	  Set to the directory your 32-bit shared objects will install into
379	  with the standard $(ROOTxxx) macros.  Since this defaults to
380	  $(ROOT)/usr/lib ($(ROOT)/lib if you included Makefile.rootfs),
381	  you usually do not need to set this.
382
383	ROOTLIBDIR64 (if your library installs to a nonstandard directory)
384
385	  Set to the directory your 64-bit shared objects will install into
386	  with the standard $(ROOTxxx64) macros.  Since this defaults to
387	  $(ROOT)/usr/lib/$(MACH64) ($(ROOT)/lib/$(MACH64) if you included
388	  Makefile.rootfs), you usually do not need to set this.
389
390	SRCDIR
391
392	  Set to the directory containing your library's source files, such
393	  as `../common'.  Because this Makefile is actually included from
394	  your ISA-specific Makefiles, make sure you specify the directory
395	  relative to your library's <isa> directory.
396
397	SRCS (if necessary)
398
399	  Set to the list of source files required to build your library.
400	  This defaults to $(OBJECTS:%.o=$(SRCDIR)/%.c) in Makefile.lib, so
401	  you only need to set this when source files from directories other
402	  than SRCDIR are needed.  Keep in mind that SRCS should be set to a
403	  list of source file *pathnames*, not just a list of filenames.
404
405	LINTLIB-specific SRCS (required if building a lint library)
406
407	  Set to a special "lint stubs" file to use when constructing your
408	  library's lint library.  The lint stubs file must be used to
409	  guarantee that programs that link against your library will be able
410	  to lint clean.  To do this, you must conditionally set SRCS to use
411	  your stubs file by specifying `LINTLIB := SRCS= $(SRCDIR)/$(LINTSRC)'
412	  in your Makefile.  Of course, you do not need to set this if your
413	  library does not build a lint library.
414
415	LDLIBS
416
417	  Appended with the list of libraries and library directories needed
418	  to build your library; minimally "-lc".  Note that this should
419	  *never* be set, since that will inadvertently clear the library
420	  search path, causing the linker to look in the wrong place for
421	  the libraries.
422
423	  Since lint targets also make use of LDLIBS, LDLIBS *must* only
424	  contain -l and -L directives; all other link-related directives
425	  should be put in DYNFLAGS (if they apply only to shared object
426	  construction) or LDFLAGS (if they apply in general).
427
428	MAPDIR
429
430	  Set to the directory in which your library mapfile is built.  If
431	  your library builds its mapfile from specfiles, set this to
432	  `../spec/$(TRANSMACH)' (TRANSMACH is the same as MACH for
433	  32-bit targets, and the same as MACH64 for 64-bit targets).
434
435	MAPFILE (required if your mapfile is under source control)
436
437	  Set to the path to your library mapfile.  If your library builds
438	  its mapfile from specfiles, this need not be set.  If you set this,
439	  you must also set DYNFLAGS to include `-M $(MAPFILE)' and set
440	  DYNLIB to depend on MAPFILE.
441
442	SPECMAPFILE (required if your mapfile is generated from specfiles)
443
444	  Set to the path to your generated mapfile (usually
445	  `$(MAPDIR)/mapfile').  If your library mapfile is under source
446	  control, you need not set this. Setting this triggers a number of
447	  features in higher-level Makefiles:
448
449		* Your shared library will automatically be linked with
450		  `-M $(SPECMAPFILE)'.
451
452		* A `make clobber' will remove $(SPECMAPFILE).
453
454		* Changes to $(SPECMAPFILE) will cause your shared library
455		  to be rebuilt.
456
457		* An attempt to build $(SPECMAPFILE) will automatically
458		  cause a `make mapfile' to be done in MAPDIR.
459
460	CPPFLAGS (if necessary)
461
462	   Appended with any flags that need to be passed to the C
463	   preprocessor (typically -D and -I flags).  Since lint macros use
464	   CPPFLAGS, CPPFLAGS *must* only contain directives known to the C
465	   preprocessor.  When compiling MT-safe code, CPPFLAGS *must*
466	   include -D_REENTRANT.  When compiling large file aware code,
467	   CPPFLAGS *must* include -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64.
468
469	CFLAGS
470
471	   Appended with any flags that need to be passed to the C compiler.
472	   Minimally, append `$(CCVERBOSE)'.  Keep in mind that you should
473	   add any C preprocessor flags to CPPFLAGS, not CFLAGS.
474
475	CFLAGS64 (if necessary)
476
477	   Appended with any flags that need to be passed to the C compiler
478	   when compiling 64-bit code.  Since all 64-bit code is compiled
479	   $(CCVERBOSE), you usually do not need to modify CFLAGS64.
480
481 	COPTFLAG (if necessary)
482
483	   Set to control the optimization level used by the C compiler when
484	   compiling 32-bit code.  You should only set this if absolutely
485	   necessary, and it should only contain optimization-related
486	   settings (or -g).
487
488 	COPTFLAG64 (if necessary)
489
490	   Set to control the optimization level used by the C compiler when
491	   compiling 64-bit code.  You should only set this if absolutely
492	   necessary, and it should only contain optimization-related
493	   settings (or -g).
494
495	LINTFLAGS (if necessary)
496
497	   Appended with any flags that need to be passed to lint when
498	   linting 32-bit code.  You should only modify LINTFLAGS in
499	   rare instances where your code cannot (or should not) be fixed.
500
501	LINTFLAGS64 (if necessary)
502
503	   Appended with any flags that need to be passed to lint when
504	   linting 64-bit code.  You should only modify LINTFLAGS64 in
505	   rare instances where your code cannot (or should not) be fixed.
506
507Of course, you may use other macros as necessary.
508
509The fourth section typically consists of the following targets:
510
511	all
512
513	  Build all of the types of the libraries named by LIBS.  Must always
514	  be the first real target in common Makefile.  Since the
515	  higher-level Makefiles already contain rules to build all of the
516	  different types of libraries, you can usually just specify
517
518		all: $(LIBS)
519
520	  though it should be listed as an empty target if LIBS is set by your
521	  ISA-specific Makefiles (see above).
522
523	lint
524
525	  Use the `lintcheck' rule provided by lib/Makefile.targ to lint the
526	  actual library sources.  Historically, this target has also been
527	  used to build the lint library (using LINTLIB), but that usage is
528	  now discouraged.  Thus, this rule should be specified as
529
530		lint: lintcheck
531
532Conspicuously absent from this section are the `clean' and `clobber' targets.
533These targets are already provided by lib/Makefile.targ and thus should not
534be provided by your common Makefile.  Instead, your common Makefile should
535list any additional files to remove during a `clean' and `clobber' by
536appending to the CLEANFILES and CLOBBERFILES macros.
537
538Once again, here's libinetutil's common Makefile, which shows how many of
539these directives go together.  Note that Makefile.rootfs is included to
540cause libinetutil.so.1 to be installed in /lib rather than /usr/lib:
541
542		LIBRARY =	libinetutil.a
543		VERS =		.1
544		OBJECTS =	octet.o inetutil4.o ifspec.o
545
546		include ../../Makefile.lib
547		include ../../Makefile.rootfs
548
549		LIBS =		$(DYNLIB) $(LINTLIB)
550		SRCS =		$(COMDIR)/octet.c $(SRCDIR)/inetutil4.c \
551				$(SRCDIR)/ifspec.c
552		$(LINTLIB):=	SRCS = $(SRCDIR)/$(LINTSRC)
553		LDLIBS +=	-lsocket -lc
554
555		SRCDIR =	../common
556		COMDIR =	$(SRC)/common/net/dhcp
557		MAPDIR =	../spec/$(TRANSMACH)
558		SPECMAPFILE =	$(MAPDIR)/mapfile
559
560		CFLAGS +=	$(CCVERBOSE)
561		CPPFLAGS +=	-I$(SRCDIR)
562
563		.KEEP_STATE:
564
565		all: $(LIBS)
566
567		lint: lintcheck
568
569		pics/%.o: $(COMDIR)/%.c
570			$(COMPILE.c) -o $@ $<
571			$(POST_PROCESS_O)
572
573		include ../../Makefile.targ
574
575Note that for libinetutil, not all of the object files come from SRCDIR.  To
576support this, an alternate source file directory named COMDIR is defined, and
577the source files listed in SRCS are specified using both COMDIR and SRCDIR.
578Additionally, a special build rule is provided to build object files from the
579sources in COMDIR; the rule uses COMPILE.c and POST_PROCESS_O so that any
580changes to the compilation and object-post-processing phases will be
581automatically picked up.
582
583The ISA-Specific Makefiles
584--------------------------
585
586As the name implies, your ISA-specific Makefiles should contain macros and
587rules that cannot be expressed in an ISA-independent way.  Usually, the only
588rule you will need to put here is `install', which has different dependencies
589for 32-bit and 64-bit libraries.  For instance, here are the ISA-specific
590Makefiles for libinetutil:
591
592	sparc/Makefile:
593
594		include ../Makefile.com
595
596		install: all $(ROOTLIBS) $(ROOTLINKS) $(ROOTLINT)
597
598	sparcv9/Makefile:
599
600		include ../Makefile.com
601		include ../../Makefile.lib.64
602
603		install: all $(ROOTLIBS64) $(ROOTLINKS64)
604
605	i386/Makefile:
606
607		include ../Makefile.com
608
609		install: all $(ROOTLIBS) $(ROOTLINKS) $(ROOTLINT)
610
611Observe that there is no .KEEP_STATE directive in these Makefiles, since all
612of these Makefiles include libinetutil/Makefile.com, and it already has a
613.KEEP_STATE directive.  Also, note that the 64-bit Makefile also includes
614Makefile.lib.64, which overrides some of the definitions contained in the
615higher level Makefiles included by the common Makefile so that 64-bit
616compiles work correctly.
617
618CTF Data in Libraries
619---------------------
620
621By default, all position-indepedent objects are built with CTF data using
622ctfconvert, which is then merged together using ctfmerge when the shared
623object is built.  All C-source objects processed via ctfmerge need to be
624processed via ctfconvert or the build will fail.  Objects built from non-C
625sources (such as assembly or C++) are silently ignored for CTF processing.
626
627Filter libraries that have no source files will need to explicitly disable
628CTF by setting CTFMERGE_LIB to ":"; see libw/Makefile.com for an example.
629
630More Information
631----------------
632
633Other issues and questions will undoubtedly arise while you work on your
634library's Makefiles.  To help in this regard, a number of libraries of
635varying complexity have been updated to follow the guidelines and practices
636outlined in this document:
637
638	lib/libdhcputil
639
640	  Example of a simple 32-bit only library.
641
642	lib/libdhcpagent
643
644	  Example of a simple 32-bit only library that obtains its sources
645	  from multiple directories.
646
647	lib/ncad_addr
648
649	  Example of a simple loadable module.
650
651	lib/libipmp
652
653	  Example of a simple library that builds a message catalog.
654
655	lib/libdhcpsvc
656
657	  Example of a Makefile hierarchy for a library and a collection
658	  of related pluggable modules.
659
660	lib/lvm
661
662	  Example of a Makefile hierarchy for a collection of related
663	  libraries and pluggable modules.
664
665	  Also an example of a Makefile hierarchy that supports the
666	  _dc target for domain and category specific messages.
667
668Of course, if you still have questions, please do not hesitate to send email
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