Daniel P Berrange writes: > On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 03:36:56PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote: >> On 4 February 2016 at 15:32, Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote: >> > On 02/04/2016 07:55 AM, Peter Maydell wrote: >> >> On 4 February 2016 at 14:39, Lluís Vilanova <vilan...@ac.upc.edu> wrote: >> >>> Dynamically detects the files used to generate QAPI code, thus ensuring >> >>> it's never out of sync with the sources. >> >>> >> >>> Signed-off-by: Lluís Vilanova <vilan...@ac.upc.edu> >> >>> --- >> >>> Makefile | 6 ++---- >> >>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) >> >>> >> >>> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile >> >>> index d0de2d4..627f772 100644 >> >>> --- a/Makefile >> >>> +++ b/Makefile >> >>> @@ -269,10 +269,8 @@ $(SRC_PATH)/qga/qapi-schema.json >> >>> $(SRC_PATH)/scripts/qapi-commands.py $(qapi-py) >> >>> $(gen-out-type) -o qga/qapi-generated -p "qga-" $<, \ >> >>> " GEN $@") >> >>> >> >>> -qapi-modules = $(SRC_PATH)/qapi-schema.json >> >>> $(SRC_PATH)/qapi/common.json \ >> >>> - $(SRC_PATH)/qapi/block.json >> >>> $(SRC_PATH)/qapi/block-core.json \ >> >>> - $(SRC_PATH)/qapi/event.json >> >>> $(SRC_PATH)/qapi/introspect.json \ >> >>> - $(SRC_PATH)/qapi/crypto.json >> >>> +qapi-modules = $(SRC_PATH)/qapi-schema.json >> >>> +qapi-modules += $(shell find $(SRC_PATH)/qapi -name "*.json") >> >> >> >> All the .json files are in the same directory, so I don't think we should >> >> need to use find here. Does >> >> >> >> qapi-modules += $(wildcard $(SRC_PATH)/qapi/*.json)) >> >> >> >> work ? >> > >> > Does this wildcard affect what goes into a tarball? I'm worried that we >> > may run the risk of a stale .json file on one developer's machine >> > causing an unreproducible build on other machines where the file is not >> > found; explicit lists tend to be safer than wildcards. >> > >> > I won't reject the patch if others like it, but I won't approve it myself. >> >> You need to ask Mike Roth about our tarball generation process, not me. >> >> I do agree that this patch needs to make the case for why .json source >> files are special and should be wildcarded, when for instance all our >> C source files are explicitly listed in makefiles.
> Yes, normal practice is that the files are listed in a Makefile that lives > in the same dir as the file. The qapi json files are not following that > since they live in a dir above. I'd be inclined to say any patch should > take us in line with source files, and thus look more like this: > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile > index b7b0f24..5481b57 100644 > --- a/Makefile > +++ b/Makefile > @@ -161,7 +161,8 @@ dummy := $(call unnest-vars,, \ > qom-obj-y \ > io-obj-y \ > common-obj-y \ > - common-obj-m) > + common-obj-m \ > + qapi-modules) > ifneq ($(wildcard config-host.mak),) > include $(SRC_PATH)/tests/Makefile > @@ -269,10 +270,7 @@ $(SRC_PATH)/qga/qapi-schema.json > $(SRC_PATH)/scripts/qapi-commands.py $(qapi-py) > $(gen-out-type) -o qga/qapi-generated -p "qga-" $<, \ > " GEN $@") > -qapi-modules = $(SRC_PATH)/qapi-schema.json $(SRC_PATH)/qapi/common.json \ > - $(SRC_PATH)/qapi/block.json $(SRC_PATH)/qapi/block-core.json \ > - $(SRC_PATH)/qapi/event.json $(SRC_PATH)/qapi/introspect.json \ > - $(SRC_PATH)/qapi/crypto.json > +qapi-modules += $(SRC_PATH)/qapi-schema.json > qapi-types.c qapi-types.h :\ > $(qapi-modules) $(SRC_PATH)/scripts/qapi-types.py $(qapi-py) > diff --git a/qapi/Makefile.objs b/qapi/Makefile.objs > index 2278970..a644a69 100644 > --- a/qapi/Makefile.objs > +++ b/qapi/Makefile.objs > @@ -4,3 +4,10 @@ util-obj-y += string-input-visitor.o string-output-visitor.o > util-obj-y += opts-visitor.o > util-obj-y += qmp-event.o > util-obj-y += qapi-util.o > + > +qapi-modules += common.json > +qapi-modules += block.json > +qapi-modules += block-core.json > +qapi-modules += event.json > +qapi-modules += introspect.json > +qapi-modules += crypto.json Moving it into the qapi directory is definitely an improvement (regardless of whether it uses an explicit list or find/wildcard). I guess you're missing a: qapi-modules += qapi/ somewhere on the top-level makefiles. Cheers, Lluis