This makes the build tree more organized, which is good for adding new
stuff. Now, it's useful for example for adding manual pages in man3/,
but it may be useful in the future for example for extending the build
system to run linters (e.g., clang-tidy(1), Clang analyzer, ...) on the
C source code.
Previously, the build tree was quite flat, and looked like this (after
`./configure && make`):
$ tree -I src build
build
├── Makefile
├── autoconf.data
├── autoconf.err
├── echo
├── libnxt.a
├── nxt_auto_config.h
├── nxt_version.h
├── unitd
└── unitd.8
1 directory, 9 files
And after this patch, it looks like this:
$ tree -I src build
build
├── Makefile
├── autoconf.data
├── autoconf.err
├── bin
│ └── echo
├── include
│ ├── nxt_auto_config.h
│ └── nxt_version.h
├── lib
│ ├── libnxt.a
│ └── unit
│ └── modules
├── sbin
│ └── unitd
├── share
│ └── man
│ └── man8
│ └── unitd.8
└── var
├── lib
│ └── unit
├── log
│ └── unit
└── run
└── unit
17 directories, 9 files
It also solves one issue introduced in
5a37171f73 ("Added default values for pathnames."). Before that
commit, it was possible to run unitd from the build system
(`./build/unitd`). Now, since it expects files in a very specific
location, that has been broken. By having a directory structure that
mirrors the installation, it's possible to trick it to believe it's
installed, and run it from there:
$ ./configure --prefix=./build
$ make
$ ./build/sbin/unitd
Fixes: 5a37171f73 ("Added default values for pathnames.")
Reported-by: Liam Crilly <liam@nginx.com>
Reviewed-by: Konstantin Pavlov <thresh@nginx.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Clayton <a.clayton@nginx.com>
Cc: Andrei Zeliankou <zelenkov@nginx.com>
Cc: Zhidao Hong <z.hong@f5.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@nginx.com>
This allows one to simply run `./configure` and expect it to
produce sane defaults for an install.
Previously, without specifying `--prefix=...`, `make install`
would simply fail, recommending to set `--prefix` or `DESTDIR`,
but that recommendation was incomplete at best, since it didn't
set many of the subdirs needed for a good organization.
Setting `DESTDIR` was even worse, since that shouldn't even affect
an installation (it is required to be transparent to the
installation).
/usr/local is the historic Unix standard path to use for
installations from source made manually by the admin of the
system. Some package managers (Homebrew, I'm looking specifically
at you) have abused that path to install their things, but 1) it's
not our fault that someone else incorrectly abuses that path (and
they seem to be fixing it for newer archs; e.g., they started
using /opt/homebrew for Apple Silicon), 2) there's no better path
than /usr/local, 3) we still allow changing it for systems where
this might not be the desired path (MacOS Intel with hombrew), and
4) it's _the standard_.
See a related conversation with Ingo (OpenBSD maintainer):
On 7/27/22 16:16, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Hi Alejandro,
[...]
>
> Alejandro Colomar wrote on Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 07:07:18PM +0200:
>> On 7/24/22 16:57, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
>>> Alejandro Colomar wrote on Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 01:20:46PM +0200:
>
>>>> /usr/local is for sysadmins to build from source;
>
>>> Doing that is *very* strongly discouraged on OpenBSD.
>
>> I guess that's why the directory was reused in the BSDs to install ports
>> (probably ports were installed by the sysadmin there, and by extension,
>> ports are now always installed there, but that's just a guess).
>
> Maybe. In any case, the practice of using /usr/local for packages
> created from ports is significantly older than the recommendation
> to refrain from using upstream "make install" outside the ports
> framework.
>
> * The FreeBSD ports framework was started by Jordan Hubbard in 1993.
> * The ports framework was ported from FreeBSD to OpenBSD
> by Niklas Hallqvist in 1996.
> * NetBSD pkgsrc was forked from FreeBSD ports by Alistair G. Crooks
> and Hubert Feyrer in 1997.
>
> I failed to quickly find Jordan's original version, but rev. 1.1
> of /usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk in OpenBSD (dated Jun 3
> 22:47:10 1996 UTC) already said
>
> LOCALBASE ?= /usr/local
> PREFIX ?= ${LOCALBASE}
>
[...]
>> I had a discussion in NGINX Unit about it, and
>> the decission for now has been: "support prefix=/usr/local for default
>> manual installation through the Makefile, and let BSD users adjust to
>> their preferred path".
>
> That's an *excellent* solution for the task, thanks for doing it
> the right way. By setting PREFIX=/usr/local by default in the
> upstream Makefile, you are minimizing the work for *BSD porters.
>
> The BSD ports frameworks will typically run the upstreak "make install"
> with the variable DESTDIR set to a custom value, for example
>
> DESTDIR=/usr/ports/pobj/groff-1.23.0/fake-amd64
>
> so if the upstream Makefile sets PREFIX=/usr/local ,
> that's perfect, everything gets installed to the right place
> without an intervention by the person doing the porting.
>
> Of course, if the upstream Makefile would use some other PREFIX,
> that would not be a huge obstacle. All we have to do in that case
> is pass the option --prefix=/usr/local to the ./configure script,
> or something equivalent if the software isn't using GNU configure.
>
>> We were concerned that we might get collisions
>> with the BSD port also installing in /usr/local, but that's the least
>> evil (and considering BSD users don't typically run `make install`, it's
>> not so bad).
>
> It's not bad at all. It's perfect.
>
> Of course, if a user wants to install *without* the ports framework,
> they have to provide their own --prefix. But that's not an issue
> because it is easy to do, and installing without a port is discouraged
> anyway.
===
Directory variables should never contain a trailing slash (I've
learned that the hard way, where some things would break
unexpectedly). Especially, make(1) is likely to have problems
when things have double slashes or a trailing slash, since it
treats filenames as text strings. I've removed the trailing slash
from the prefix, and added it to the derivate variables just after
the prefix. pkg-config(1) also expects directory variables to have
no trailing slash.
===
I also removed the code that would set variables as depending on
the prefix if they didn't start with a slash, because that is a
rather non-obvious behavior, and things should not always depend
on prefix, but other dirs such as $(runstatedir), so if we keep
a similar behavior it would be very unreliable. Better keep
variables intact if set, or use the default if unset.
===
Print the real defaults for ./configure --help, rather than the actual
values.
===
I used a subdirectory under the standard /var/lib for NXT_STATE,
instead of a homemade "state" dir that does the same thing.
===
Modified the Makefile to create some dirs that weren't being
created, and also remove those that weren't being removed in
uninstall, probably because someone forgot to add them.
===
Add new options for setting the new variables, and rename some to be
consistent with the standard names. Keep the old ones at configuration
time for compatibility, but mark them as deprecated. Don't keep the old
ones at exec time.
===
A summary of the default config is:
Unit configuration summary:
bin directory: ............. "/usr/local/bin"
sbin directory: ............ "/usr/local/sbin"
lib directory: ............. "/usr/local/lib"
include directory: ......... "/usr/local/include"
man pages directory: ....... "/usr/local/share/man"
modules directory: ......... "/usr/local/lib/unit/modules"
state directory: ........... "/usr/local/var/lib/unit"
tmp directory: ............. "/tmp"
pid file: .................. "/usr/local/var/run/unit/unit.pid"
log file: .................. "/usr/local/var/log/unit/unit.log"
control API socket: ........ "unix:/usr/local/var/run/unit/control.unit.sock"
Link: <https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Directory-Variables.html>
Link: <https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/index.html>
Reviewed-by: Artem Konev <a.konev@f5.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Clayton <a.clayton@nginx.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Clayton <a.clayton@nginx.com>
Reviewed-by: Konstantin Pavlov <thresh@nginx.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@nginx.com>
Configuration and building example:
./configure
./configure python
./configure php
./configure go
make all
or
./configure
make nginext
./configure python
make python
./configure php
make php
./configure go
make go
Modules configuration options and building examples:
./configure python --module=python2 --config=python2.7-config
make python2
./configure php --module=php7 --config=php7.0-config
--lib-path=/usr/local/php7.0
make php7
./configure go --go=go1.6 --go-path=${HOME}/go1.6
make go1.6
