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24
25This directory contains the tools used to do a full build of the
26OS/Net workspace.  They usually live in the /opt/onbld directory on build
27machines. From here, 'make install' will build and install the tools
28in $ROOT/opt/onbld.
29
30Layout of /opt/onbld
31--------------------
32
33/opt/onbld/etc/abi
34	contains Solaris ABI database (ABI_*.db) and exceptions
35	for ABI Auditing tool (interface_check, interface_cmp).
36
37/opt/onbld/bin
38	basic bin directory - contains scripts.
39
40/opt/onbld/bin/${MACH}
41	architecture-specific bin directory for binaries.
42
43/opt/onbld/env
44	build environment files.
45
46/opt/onbld/lib
47	libraries used by the build tools.
48
49/opt/onbld/lib/python<version>/
50	python modules used by the build tools.
51
52/opt/onbld/lib/python<version>/onbld/hgext
53	Mercurial extensions.
54
55/opt/onbld/lib/python/
56        symlink to the modules directory of the currently preferred
57        python version.  This exists to retain compatibility both for
58        tools expecting only one supported version of python, and for
59        user .hgrc files that expect to find cdm.py in
60        /opt/onbld/lib/python/onbld/hgext.
61
62/opt/onbld/man
63	rudimentary man pages for some of the tools.
64
65
66Tool Summary
67------------
68
69bldenv
70	companion to 'nightly.' Takes the same environment file you
71	used with 'nightly,' and starts a shell with the environment
72	set up the same way as 'nightly' set it up. This is useful
73	if you're trying to quickly rebuild portions of a workspace
74	built by 'nightly'. 'ws' should not be used for this since it
75	sets the environment up differently and may cause everything
76	to rebuild (because of different -I or -L paths).
77
78build_cscope
79	builds cscope databases in the uts, the platform subdirectories
80	of uts, and in usr/src. Uses cscope-fast.
81
82cdm
83	A Mercurial extension providing various commands useful for ON
84	development
85
86check_rtime
87	checks ELF attributes used by ELF dynamic objects in the proto area.
88	Used by 'nightly's -r option, to check a number of ELF runtime
89	attributes for consistency with common build rules.  nightly uses
90	the -o option to simplify the output for diffing with previous
91	build results.  It also uses the -i option to obtain NEEDED and RUNPATH
92	entries, which help detect changes in software dependencies and makes
93	sure objects don't have any strange runpaths like /opt/SUNWspro/lib.
94
95codereview
96	Given two filenames, creates a postscript file with the file
97	differences highlighted.
98
99codesign
100	Tools for signing cryptographic modules using the official
101	Sun release keys stored on a remote signing server. This
102	directory contains signit, a client program for signing
103	files with the signing server; signproto, a shell script
104	that finds crypto modules in $ROOT and signs them using
105	signit; and codesign_server.pl, the code that runs on the
106	server. The codesign_server code is not used on an ON
107	build machine but is kept here for source control purposes.
108
109copyrightchk
110	Checks that files have appropriate SMI copyright notices.
111	Primarily used by wx
112
113cscope-fast
114	The fast version of cscope that we use internally. Seems to work,
115	but may need more testing before it's placed in the gate. The source
116	just really needs to be here.
117
118cstyle
119	checks C source for compliance with OS/Net guidelines.
120
121ctfconvert
122	Convert symbolic debugging information in an object file to the Compact
123	ANSI-C Type Format (CTF).
124
125ctfdump
126	Decode and display CTF data stored in a raw file or in an ELF file.
127
128ctfmerge
129	Merge the CTF data from one or more object files.
130
131elfcmp
132	Compares two ELF modules (e.g. .o files, executables) section by
133	section.  Useful for determining whether "trivial" changes -
134	cstyle, lint, etc - actually changed the code.  The -S option
135	is used to test whether two binaries are the same except for
136	the elfsign signature.
137
138find_elf
139	Search a directory tree for ELF objects, and produce one line of
140	output per object. Used by check_rtime and interface_check to locate
141	the objects to examine.
142
143findunref
144	Finds all files in a source tree that have access times older than a
145	certain time and are not in a specified list of exceptions.  Since
146	'nightly' timestamps the start of the build, and findunref uses its
147	timestamp (by default), this can be used to find all files that were
148	unreferenced during a nightly build).  Since some files are only used
149	during a SPARC or Intel build, 'findunref' needs to be run on
150	workspaces from both architectures and the results need to be merged.
151	For instance, if $INTELSRC and $SPARCSRC are set to the usr/src
152	directories of your Intel and SPARC nightly workspaces, then you
153	can merge the results like so:
154
155	$ findunref $INTELSRC $INTELSRC/tools/findunref/exception_list | \
156	  sort > ~/unref-i386.out
157	$ findunref $SPARCSRC $SPARCSRC/tools/findunref/exception_list | \
158	  sort > ~/unref-sparc.out
159	$ comm -12 ~/unref-i386.out ~/unref-sparc.out > ~/unref.out
160
161hdrchk
162	checks headers for compliance with OS/Net standards (form, includes,
163	C++ guards).
164
165hgsetup
166	creates a basic Mercurial configuration for the user.
167
168hg-active
169	helper used by webrev to generate file lists for Mercurial
170	workspaces.
171
172install.bin
173	binary version of /usr/sbin/install. Used to be vastly faster
174	(since /usr/sbin/install is a shell script), but may only be a bit
175	faster now. One speedup includes avoiding the name service for the
176	well-known, never-changing password entries like 'root' and 'sys.'
177
178interface_check
179	detects and reports invalid versioning in ELF objects.
180	Optionally generates an interface description file for
181	the workspace.
182
183interface_cmp
184	Compares two interface description files, as produced by
185	interface_check, and flags invalid deviations in ELF object
186	versioning between them. interface_cmp can be used between Solaris
187	gates to ensure that older releases remain compatible with the
188	development gate. It can also be used to validate new changes to
189	the development gate before they are integrated.
190
191lintdump
192	dumps the contents of one or more lint libraries; see lintdump(1)
193
194ndrgen
195	Network Data Language (NDL) RPC protocol compiler to support DCE
196	RPC/MSRPC and SMB/CIFS.  ndrgen takes an input protocol definition
197	file (say, proto.ndl) and generates an output C source file
198	(proto_ndr.c) containing the Network Data Representation (NDR)
199	marshalling routines to implement the RPC protocol.
200
201nightly
202	nightly build script. Takes an environment (or 'env') file describing
203	such things as the workspace, the parent, and what to build. See
204	env/developer and env/gatekeeper for sample, hopefully well-commented
205	env files.
206
207protocmp
208	compares proto lists and the package definitions. Used by nightly
209	to determine if the proto area matches the packages, and to detect
210	differences between a childs proto area and a parents.
211
212protocmp.terse
213	transforms the output of protocmp into something a bit more friendly
214
215protolist
216	create a list of what's in the proto area, to feed to protocmp.
217
218
219ws
220	creates a shell with the environment set up to build in the given
221	workspace. Used mostly for non-full-build workspaces, so it sets up
222	to pull headers and libraries from the proto area of the parent if
223	they aren't in the childs proto area.
224
225tokenize
226	Used to build the sun4u boot block.
227
228webrev
229	Generates a set of HTML pages that show side-by-side diffs of
230	changes in your workspace, for easy communication of code
231	review materials.  Can automagically find edited files or use a
232	manually-generated list; knows how to use wx's active file for
233	lists of checked-out files and proposed SCCS comments.
234
235which_scm
236	Reports the current Source Code Management (SCM) system in use
237	and the top-level directory of the workspace.
238
239wsdiff
240	Detect object differences between two ON proto areas. Used by
241	nightly(1) to determine what changed between two builds. Handy
242	for identifying the set of built objects impacted by a given
243	source change. This information is needed for patch construction.
244
245
246How to do a full build
247----------------------
248
2491. Find an environment file that might do what you want to do. If you're just
250   a developer wanting to do a full build in a child of the gate, copy the
251   'developer' environment file to a new name (private to you and/or the
252   work being done in this workspace, to avoid collisions with others). Then
253   edit the file and tailor it to your workspace. Remember that this file
254   is a shell script, so it can do more than set environment variables.
255
2562. Run 'nightly' and give it your environment file as an
257   option. 'nightly' will first look for your environment file in
258   /opt/onbld/env, and if it's not there then it will look for it as an
259   absolute or relative path. Some people put their environment files in
260   their workspace to keep them close.
261
2623. When 'nightly' is complete, it will send a summary of what happened to
263   $MAILTO. Usually, the less info in the mail the better. If you have failures,
264   you can go look at the full log of what happened, generally in
265   $CODEMGR_WS/log/log.<date>/nightly.log (the mail_msg it sent and the proto
266   list are there too). You can also find the individual build logs, like
267   'make clobber' and 'make install' output in $SRC, under names like
268   clobber-${MACH}.out and install-${MACH}.out (for a DEBUG build). These
269   will be smaller than nightly.log, and maybe more searchable.
270
271Files you have to update to add a tool
272--------------------------------------
273
2741.  Add the tool in its appropriate place.
2752.  Update the Makefile as required.
2763.  Update usr/src/pkg/manifests/developer-build-onbld.mf
2774.  Update usr/src/tools/README.tools (this file).
2785.  Repeat 1-4 for any man pages.
279