On Tue, 26 Mar 2024 at 16:42, Jens Remus <jre...@linux.ibm.com> wrote: > > Am 15.03.2024 um 09:50 schrieb Christophe Lyon: > > On Thu, 14 Mar 2024 at 19:10, Simon Marchi <sim...@simark.ca> wrote: > >> On 2024-03-13 04:02, Christophe Lyon via Gdb wrote: > ... > >> There's just the issue of files that are generated using tools that are > >> compiled. When experimenting with maintainer mode the other day, I > >> stumbled on the opcodes/i386-gen, for instance. I don't have a good > >> solution to that, except to rewrite these tools in a scripting language > >> like Python. > > > > So for opcodes, it currently means rewriting such programs for i386, > > aarch64, ia64 and luckily msp430/rl78/rx share the same opc2c > > generator. > > Not sure how to find volunteers? > > Why are those generated source files checked into the repository and not > generated at build-time? Would there be a reason for s390 do so as well > (opcodes/s390-opc.tab is generated at build-time from > opcodes/s390-opc.txt using s390-mkopc built from opcodes/s390-mkopc.c)? > I remember someone mentioned a requirement of being able to rebuild with the sources on a read-only filesystem. I don't know if there's a requirement that such generated files should be part of the source tree though. Is opcodes/s390-opc.tab in builddir or in srcdir?
I think there are other motivations but I can't remember them at the moment :-) Thanks, Christophe > Thanks and regards, > Jens > -- > Jens Remus > Linux on Z Development (D3303) and z/VSE Support > +49-7031-16-1128 Office > jre...@de.ibm.com > > IBM > > IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH; Vorsitzender des > Aufsichtsrats: Wolfgang Wendt; Geschäftsführung: David Faller; Sitz der > Gesellschaft: Böblingen; Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 243294 > IBM Data Privacy Statement: https://www.ibm.com/privacy/
