NAME

Mpp::BuildCheck -- Interface definition for various signature classes

USAGE

Derive a package from this package.

DESCRIPTION

The Mpp::BuildCheck package specifies how makepp uses the file signatures and other information in order to compute whether a file needs to be rebuilt or not. Each rule can have a different build check associated with it, if necessary. In the makefile, the signature class is specified by using the :build_check modifier, like this:

   %.o : %.c
           : build_check special_build
           $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c $(FIRST_DEPENDENCY) -o $(TARGET)

This causes the signature class Mpp::BuildCheck::special_build to be used for this particular rule.

Only one object from each different buildcheck class is actually created; the object has no data, and its only purpose is to contain a blessed reference to the package that actually implements the functions. Each rule contains a reference to the build check object that is appropriate for it. The object is found by the name of the build check class. For example, the above rule uses the object referenced by $Mpp::BuildCheck::special_build::special_build. (The purpose of this naming scheme is to make it impossible to inherit accidentally a singleton object, which would cause the wrong Mpp::Signature class to be used.)

The build check class is independent of the signature class. In general, any signature method may be used with any build check. (An exception is the target_newer build check class, which by definition works only with file dates.)

build_check

  if ($build_check_method->build_check($tinfo, \@all_dependencies,
             $build_command, $build_cwd, $signature_method, \%env)) {
    ...
  }

Returns undef if the given target does not need rebuilding, or the true if a rebuild is needed. If the only reason a rebuild is needed is that dependencies are changed, then the special value "DEPENDENCIES" should be returned, as this permits optimizations related to scanning.

$tinfo is the Mpp::File structure for one of the targets that this rule can make. build_check should be called for each target.

@all_dependencies is an array that contains all dependencies (including ones that we detected automatically, such as include files). The dependencies should already have been built. The list should be sorted in the final order we'll put them into the build information, and duplicates should be removed.

$build_command is the command string that we are going to execute (after all variables have been expanded) if any files are out of date.

$build_cwd is the directory that the command should be executed in if it needs to be executed.

$signature_method is a reference to the Mpp::Signature class object that should be used to compute signatures. See Mpp/Signature.pm for details.

%env is a hash mapping names of environment variables which affect the target to values. If the name is of the form /(.+) in (\S+)/, then $1 is taken as a filename to search for in the value of the environment variable named by $2 (directories separated by colons), and the value is the name of the first directory in which it is found.

The build_check subroutine should pay attention to the ASSUME_CHANGED and ASSUME_UNCHANGED members of the Mpp::File structure. Implemented by classes which inherit from this.

build_check_from_build_info($build_info_hash, \@all_dependencies, $build_command, $build_cwd, $signature_method, \%env)

  if ($build_check_method->build_check_from_build_info($bc_entry,
        \@all_dependencies, $build_command, $build_cwd,
        $signature_method, \%env)) {
    ...
  }

This subroutine does exactly the same thing as build_check() except that it accepts either a repository entry or a build cache entry. It may only look at the build info (the stuff that's stored in the .makepp file) to see if the file can be used. Since the $bc_entry argument may be either a build cache entry or a fileinfo describing a file in the repository, you should access the build info by calling <$bc_entry-build_info_string("BUILD_INFO_ENTRY_NAME")>>. You should not call any other methods of the object. Implemented by classes which inherit from this.

changed_dependencies

   @changed_files = $sigobj->
      changed_dependencies($tinfo, $signature_method, $build_cwd,
                           @all_dependencies);

Returns a list of the dependencies which have been changed since the last time the target was updated. "Changed" means changed so that the signature method cares. For example, if your signature method simply compares the dates to see if any of the dependencies are newer (the target_newer method), then this is a list of dependencies whose file date is newer than the target.

This is only used to avoid rescanning for include files unnecessarily, and also for the $(changed_inputs) variable. It is not used for the decision of whether to build a file.

build_cache_key

   $build_cache_key = $self->build_cache_key($tinfo, \@all_dependencies,
                                             $build_command, $build_cwd,
                                             $signature_method, \%env);

Returns a key for looking up this target in the build cache. The arguments are the same as for build_check.

If undef is returned, then we do not look at the file in the build cache. This is the default behavior; you must override it if you want to enable the build cache.

NOTE: Build cache key equality must imply substitutability (barring a vanishingly improbable event such as an accidental MD5 alias), because we don't do a build_check after getting a cache hit. In addition to improving efficiency, this is necessary to combat the fact that it is impossible to guarantee that a build cache target and its build info actually go together when the build cache is on an NFS volume.

update_dep_sigs

    $self->update_dep_sigs($tinfo, $rule);

If build_cache_key returns a defined value, then this is called after importing from the build cache to make the DEP_SIGS in the target's build info match the signatures of its dependencies (rather than that of the dependencies in the build cache), so that its build check will pass on the next makepp run unless something has actually changed. Implemented by classes which inherit from this.

cpanm Mpp

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Mpp