xbmkdir checks if a directory exists, before running
mkdir, and then still uses -p
i was testing xbmk on arch linux today, and noticed
that it errored out when a directory already exists.
i'm mitigating against buggy or differently behaving
mkdir implementations this way, by wrapping around
it.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
this way, the clean version can be placed inside the
release tarball.
there is a make clean option in sbase, but we should
not really on this.
the design of xbmk is that a clean src tarball is
created. there must not be build artifications in it.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
the symlink check is what made me use eval, but the
symlink check is not required, since i check every
entry that goes in nuke.list anyway.
not having that symlink check is safer than having
an eval statement on that line.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
i will eventually find a way to remove them all,
while still leaving the code completely clean.
in practise, i never use the contents of a file
for eval and the inputs are carefully checked.
however, over-use of eval is always a bad idea
in shell scripting.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
be a bit less pedantic about if else clauses. leave the
big ones still with then on separate lines, where else
is specified.
also unroll a few condensed code lines where i missed
a few.
sloccount 2303 in lbmk. that's still only slightly bigger
than libreboot 20260907 which was 2180, and still much
smaller than libreboot 20230625 which was 3322.
this is *without* the condensed codelines, so now the only
thing that's reduced is the overall amount of logic present
in the build system.
and i should clarify that lbmk is presently much more powerful
than both of those two versions (20160907/20230625).
the 2016 one is useful for comparison historically, since that
was the last major version of libreboot prior to the great
second coming of leah in 2021; and the 2023 june release was
basically the last one before the great audits of 2023 to
2025 began.
not to brag (not much anyway), but all of this means that lbmk
is an insanely efficient build system, considering all the
features it has and what it does.
i unrolled the condensed code style in lbmk, making the scripts
a lot easier to read, because i received complainst about the
condensed style previously used; nicholas chin and alper nebi
yasak both told me that it sucked, and riku viitanen had hinted
at that same fact several months prior.
so hopefully now, lbmk is a bit nicer. those and other people
often find it challenging to challenge me because for reason
they assume i'll get upset and fly off the handle, but it's the
opposite. i want constant criticism, so that i know to improve!
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
use the new functionality in err(), whereby a given
function name and arguments can be provided, for
debugging purposes.
something similar was already done in a few places,
and replaced with this unified functionality.
this patch will make xbmk much easier to debug, under
fault conditions.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
the newer way handles escaped characters better, and it
can be nested more easily. it's also more readable.
personally, i prefer the old way, because it's more
minimalist, but it occurs to me that a lot of people
nowadays don't know about backticks, but they do know
of the modern way.
to make the code more readable, i have modernised it.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
XBMK_CACHE is meant for permanent cached files, not
temporarily files.
the temporary release files are copied upon successful
return, to their rightful place under release/
this new change also reduces the chance of race
conditions, if multiple xbmk instances are used; while
not yet supported as a use-case, this is a goal for a
future design change.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
this removes the current hackiness, preventing
build errors since xbtmp is now based on xbmkpwd,
which changes when we're in the release dir.
XBMK_RELEASE is still set accordingly, so this
will still work the same way.
this is also cleaner in general.
XBMK_CACHE is still the same, so the release work
directory still re-uses files from the main work
directory, rather than re-creating them.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
this lets you change the directory for outputted
release files, versus the default "release" directory.
this code is buggy, because it could let you overwrite
a part of xbmk or worse - and checking for such bad
usage would require a lot more code.
knobs are for nobs.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
we need to copy the main lock file, rather than creating
a new, empty one. this is because the new lock file
handling requires it, and the release lock file will
be used during release builds.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
Don't copy the files directly, because we might be doing
this from a work directory that has no files; in this case,
generic "unknown" variables are used, without generating
any files, so the current logic would produce an error.
However, we do need to create those dot files, because
we then rely on them for building release binaries.
The new logic maintains current behaviour, while fixing
this technical edge-case scenario via mitigation.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
Otherwise, an "unknown" version number is created.
This regression was caused by the recent optimisation
that reduces the amount of extra work done by init.sh
on child instances of xbmk.
As a result of those changes, now release.sh has to
do some minor initialisation of its own, such as this.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
i wasn't ok having that variable initialisation and
then the commands on the same line. it looks messy.
having the commands on a separate line makes the code nice
to read, so let's separate them.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
we really only need it there, because the context is
for release archives. normal use of the git repository
doesn't matter in the context of deletions, because that
will not be distributed. only the result of ./mk release
will be distributed.
the builds produced will not change as a result of this,
for people using the normal git repository, because the
files in question are never used anyway, in our configs.
this is being done to make working on local repos easier.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
otherwise, ./mk -b (without argument) will fail, on release
archives. also, perhaps i should add an mkhelper to build it?
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
The result of the printf statement is sorted, making
it do binaries first, which results in a lot of junk
files then being present inside the source archive.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
don't move to the real directory until the work
is done.
that way, a re-try can be done, while analysing
the old files. it is created based on the tmpdir,
under XBMK_CACHE/
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
We don't need to call it from git.sh, because it's
only being done when building a release anyway,
and we already run rmgit when doing a release.
The function itself is only two simple fx_ calls,
so we can just do that from build_release().
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
many places in lbmk used err, because older versions
of x_ did not handle globbing properly.
however, use of x_ is preferable on trivial commands.
the only time err() should be called is what it has
to be, when x_ can't work, or when a more useful error
message is needed, for context.
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
The idea with mk is that it's meant to basically be a
stub for running everything else, while mainly having
the trees logic within it (what was once script/trees).
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
