Document that the hints file is created in little-endian byte-order
by default now. The -B option can be used to create a big-endian hints
file. Currently, both formats are accepted by the run-time linker on
all architectures.
MFC after: 3 days
Relnotes: yes
Remove the test for building on a big-endian architecture, which
preserved the previous default of creating the ELF hints file in
native byte-order of the respective architecture.
Support for little-endian hints files has been added to the
run-time linker and the pkg command.
This is a step towards architecture independent little-endian hints
files, but support for big-endian hints files shall only be removed
from the run-time linker (and ldconfig and pkg) when the last release
that defaulted to hints files in host-byte has been declared EOL.
Reviewed by: kib
Tested by: tuexen
MFC after: 3 days
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D44734
Swap which side of a comparison is byte-swapped by be32toh()
on little-endian architectures.
The be32toh() macro just returns the operand and big-endian
architectures and returns it byte-swapped on little-endian
architectures.
When operating on a constant argument, the compiler can perform
the swap operation at build time instead of swapping the data
read from the hints file at run time.
Reviewed by: kib
Tested by: tuexen
MFC after: 3 days
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D44734
The -v option used to print useful information when operating on a.out
format libraries. After the removal of a.out support, it was accepted
but did not have any effect.
Remove the option and update the man-page.
While here mention the set of historic options that are accepted but
ignored: "-elf", "-s", and "-v".
The FILES section contained outdated information and did not mention
the way library directories of optional ports and packages are
included in the library search path recorded in the hints file.
The description of the "-B" option was incorrect (described a planned
change) for big-endian platforms (powerpc64). These do still default
to big-endian hints files, since the current version of the "pkg"
program expects the hints file to be in native byte-order.
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 1 month
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D44139
Make the ldconfig program accept hints files in little-endian and
big-endian format on all architectures.
The default format is the native byte-order of the respective host.
This is expected to change when a version of the pkg command is
available that implements support for either byte-order in its
internal ldconfig function. (Already committed in the development
tree of the pkg utility, a release is expected at the end of Q1/2024).
This update adds the -B option to the ldconfig program. It enforces
the creation of a big-endian hints file on a little-endian host.
The main purpose to is support of tests with non-native byte-order
files on little-endian hosts. It will be removed when all supported
FreeBSD releases use little-endian hints files by default.
When little-endian hints files are generally used, support of
either byte-order in libexec/rtld can also be removed.
When support for big-endian hints files is no longer required,
the COND_SWAP macro in ldconfig and rtld shall be replaced by
le32toh(), which just return their argument on little-endian
architectures.
Approved by: kib
MFC after: 1 month
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D44093
This will allow the latter to be removed, reducing the boilerplate
needed for a new libcompat.
Reviewed by: kib, brooks, jhb
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D40933
In most cases, usage does not return, so mark them as __dead2. For the
cases where they do return, they have not been marked __dead2.
Reviewed by: imp
Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/735
The SPDX folks have obsoleted the BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD identifier. Catch
up to that fact and revert to their recommended match of BSD-2-Clause.
Discussed with: pfg
MFC After: 3 days
Sponsored by: Netflix
_PATH_LD32_HINTS is unused because it is a.out remnant.
_PATH_ELF32_HINTS is provided by rtld_paths.h already.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Default action for ldconfig is specified as -R AKA 'append', and for
no-args (without options changing default actions), ldconfig should
append empty list of directories to current list. But because the check
was done before options were parsed out, presence of any option turned
off default rescan.
As result, innocently-looked commands like `ldconfig -v' were interpreted
as setting directory hints list to one specified on the command line,
i.e. empty.
Reported by: https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/9592
Reviewed by: emaste
Tested by: jbeich
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D33058
Remove the option from man page and summary. Silently ignore it when
parsing command line for backward compatibility.
Reviewed by: emaste
Tested by: jbeich
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D33058
Use bool.
Use local variables instead of static.
Remove non-functional debugging override of hints file path.
Use explicit exit() instead of return from main.
Minor style tweaks.
Reviewed by: emaste
Tested by: jbeich
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D33058
ELF ldconfig only maintains the search list, there is no hints
Reviewed by: emaste
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30272
aout support in ldconfig hasn't been required since FreeBSD 2.x.
If someone needs to use FreeBSD 2 shared libraries they will be best
served by using a FreeBSD 2 ldconfig as well.
In aa5e1b42e6 we removed the ldconfig a.out invocation from rc.d but
left the support in ldconfig itself. Remove it now.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27481
aout support in ldconfig hasn't been required since FreeBSD 2.x.
Anyone still using FreeBSD 2 shared libraries can also use a FreeBSD 2
ldconfig to generate aout ldconfig hints.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
The previous language did not make it clear that 'Files' are
the files specified above. Clarify it.
Reported by: dana <dana@dana.is>
Reviewed by: dana <dana@dana.is>
MFC After: 1 week
Mainly focus on files that use BSD 2-Clause license, however the tool I
was using misidentified many licenses so this was mostly a manual - error
prone - task.
The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.
No functional change intended.
Off by default, build behaves normally.
WITH_META_MODE we get auto objdir creation, the ability to
start build from anywhere in the tree.
Still need to add real targets under targets/ to build packages.
Differential Revision: D2796
Reviewed by: brooks imp
