Re: Help needed with maintainer-mode

[Christophe Lyon <christophe.lyon@linaro.org>]

On Fri, 1 Mar 2024 at 14:08, Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Christophe,
>
> On Thu, 2024-02-29 at 18:39 +0100, Christophe Lyon wrote:
> > On Thu, 29 Feb 2024 at 12:00, Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org> wrote:
> > > That python script works across gcc/binutils/gdb:
> > > https://sourceware.org/cgit/builder/tree/builder/containers/autoregen.py
> > >
> > > It is installed into a container file that has the exact autoconf and
> > > automake version needed to regenerate the autotool files:
> > > https://sourceware.org/cgit/builder/tree/builder/containers/Containerfile-autotools
> > >
> > > And it was indeed done this way because that way the files are
> > > regenerated in a reproducible way. Which wasn't the case when using --enable-maintainer-mode (and autoreconfig also doesn't work).
> >
> > I see. So it is possibly incomplete, in the sense that it may lack
> > some of the steps that maintainer-mode would perform?
> > For instance, gas for aarch64 has some *opcodes*.c files that need
> > regenerating before committing. The regeneration step is enabled in
> > maintainer-mode, so I guess the autoregen bots on Sourceware would
> > miss a problem with these files?
>
> Yes, it is certainly incomplete. But it is done this way because it is
> my understanding that even the gcc release maintainers do the
> automake/autoconf invocations by hand instead of running with configure
> --enable-maintainer-mode.

Indeed, I've just discovered that earlier today :-)

>
> Note that another part that isn't caught at the moment are the
> regeneration of the opt.urls files. There is a patch for that pending:
Indeed. I hadn't thought of it either. And just noticed it requires
the D frontend, which we don't build in CI.

> https://inbox.sourceware.org/buildbot/20231215005908.GC12145@gnu.wildebeest.org/
>
> But that is waiting for the actual opt.urls to be regenerated correctly
> first:
> https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc-patches/20240224174258.GD1353@gnu.wildebeest.org/
> Ping David?
>
> It would be nice to have all these "regeneration targets" in one script
> that could be used by both the pre-commit and post-commit checkers.
>
Agreed.

> Cheers,
>
> Mark