From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Mark Johnston <markj(at)freebsd(dot)org>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: DTrace build dependency rules |
Date: | 2015-08-18 16:08:16 |
Message-ID: | 20150818160816.GF5232@alvherre.pgsql |
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Robert Haas wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 6:45 PM, Mark Johnston <markj(at)freebsd(dot)org> wrote:
> > The bug is in src/backend/Makefile. probes.o, the dtrace(1)-generated
> > object file, depends on the objfiles.txt for each of the backend
> > subdirs. These files depend in turn on the object files themselves; if
> > objfiles.txt is out of date with respect to one of its object files, the
> > mtime of objfiles.txt is updated with "touch" (see backend/common.mk).
> > The problem is that dtrace -G, which runs at the end of the build,
> > modifies a number of object files (it overwrites their probe sites with
> > NOPs), thus making their corresponding objfiles.txt out of date. Then,
> > when "make install" traverses the backend subdirs, it updates
> > objfiles.txt, which causes probes.o to be rebuilt, resulting in an error
> > from dtrace(1).
>
> Gosh, that's pretty ugly. I would have thought it would be a real
> no-no to update the .o file once it got generated. If nothing else, a
> modification to the .c file concurrent with a make invocation might
> lead to the .o not getting rebuilt the next time make is run.
I had the same thought, and wondered for a bit whether we should instead
have the compilation rules produce some intermediate file (prior to
dtrace fumbling), then emit the .o from dtrace -G. OTOH this might be
more trouble than is worth for a feature that doesn't see a lot of use.
> > The attached patch fixes the problem by having probes.o depend on object
> > files directly, rather than on objfiles.txt. I've tested it with
> > PostgreSQL 9.0-9.4 on FreeBSD CURRENT.
>
> I don't see a particular reason not to make this change, though.
I wanted to test it on Linux yesterday but didn't get any further than
installing a couple of packages.
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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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