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author | Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1995-10-18 08:53:40 +0000 |
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committer | Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1995-10-18 08:53:40 +0000 |
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diff --git a/distrib/crunch/crunchgen/crunchgen.1 b/distrib/crunch/crunchgen/crunchgen.1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..0e3f4bf4c2f --- /dev/null +++ b/distrib/crunch/crunchgen/crunchgen.1 @@ -0,0 +1,274 @@ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1994 University of Maryland +.\" All Rights Reserved. +.\" +.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its +.\" documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that +.\" the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that +.\" copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting +.\" documentation, and that the name of U.M. not be used in advertising or +.\" publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without specific, +.\" written prior permission. U.M. makes no representations about the +.\" suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" +.\" without express or implied warranty. +.\" +.\" U.M. DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING ALL +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS, IN NO EVENT SHALL U.M. +.\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES +.\" WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN +.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR +.\" IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. +.\" +.\" Author: James da Silva, Systems Design and Analysis Group +.\" Computer Science Department +.\" University of Maryland at College Park +.\" +.Dd June 14, 1994 +.Dt CRUNCHGEN 1 +.Os BSD 4 +.Sh NAME +.Nm \&crunchgen +.Nd generates build environment for a crunched binary +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm \&crunchgen +.Op Fl fq +.Op Fl m Ar makefile-name +.Op Fl c Ar c-file-name +.Op Fl e Ar exec-file-name +.Op Fl D Ar src-root +.Op Fl L Ar lib-dir +.Op Ar conf-file +.Sh DESCRIPTION + +A crunched binary is a program made up of many other programs linked +together into a single executable. The crunched binary main() +function determines which component program to run by the contents of +argv[0]. The main reason to crunch programs together is for fitting +as many programs as possible onto an installation or system recovery +floppy. + +.Pp +.Nm Crunchgen +reads in the specifications in +.Ar conf-file +for a crunched binary, and generates a Makefile and accompanying +top-level C source file that when built create the crunched executable +file from the component programs. For each component program, +.Nm crunchgen +can optionally attempt to determine the object (.o) files that make up +the program from its source directory Makefile. This information is +cached between runs. +.Nm Crunchgen +uses the companion program +.Nm crunchide +to eliminate link-time conflicts between the component programs by +hiding all unnecessary symbols. + +.Pp +After +.Nm crunchgen +is run, the crunched binary can be built by running ``make -f +<conf-name>.mk''. The component programs' object files must already +be built. A ``objs'' target, included in the output makefile, will +run make in each component program's source dir to build the object +files for the user. This is not done automatically since in release +engineering circumstances it is generally not desireable to be +modifying objects in other directories. + +.Pp +The options are as follows: +.Bl -tag -width indent +.It Fl c Ar c-file-name +Set output C file name to +.Ar c-file-name . +The default name is ``<conf-name>.c''. +.It Fl e Ar exec-file-name +Set crunched binary executable file name to +.Ar exec-file-name . +The default name is ``<conf-name>''. +.It Fl f +Flush cache. Forces the recalculation of cached parameters. +.It Fl m Ar makefile-name +Set output Makefile name to +.Ar makefile-name . +The default name is ``<conf-name>.mk''. +.It Fl q +Quiet operation. Status messages are suppressed. +.It Fl D Ar src-root +Assume that relative source directory specifications begin with +.Ar srt-root . +.It Fl L Ar lib-dir +Try to obtain libraries from +.Ar lib-dir . +.El +.Sh CRUNCHGEN CONFIGURATION FILE COMMANDS + +.Nm Crunchgen +reads specifications from the +.Ar conf-file +that describe the components of the crunched binary. In its simplest +use, the component program names are merely listed along with the +top-level source directories in which their sources can be found. +.Nm Crunchgen +then calculates (via the source makefiles) and caches the +list of object files and their locations. For more specialized +situations, the user can specify by hand all the parameters that +.Nm crunchgen +needs. +.Pp +The +.Ar conf-file +commands are as follows: +.Bl -tag -width indent +.It Nm srcdirs Ar dirname ... +A list of source trees in which the source directories of the +component programs can be found. These dirs are searched using the +BSD ``<source-dir>/<progname>/'' convention. Multiple +.Nm srcdirs +lines can be specified. The directories are searched in the order +they are given. +.It Nm progs Ar progname ... +A list of programs that make up the crunched binary. Multiple +.Nm progs +lines can be specified. +.It Nm libs Ar libspec ... +A list of library specifications to be included in the crunched binary link. +Multiple +.Nm libs +lines can be specified. +.It Nm ln Ar progname linkname +Causes the crunched binary to invoke +.Ar progname +whenever +.Ar linkname +appears in argv[0]. This allows programs that change their behavior when +run under different names to operate correctly. +.El + +To handle specialized situations, such as when the source is not +available or not built via a conventional Makefile, the following +.Nm special +commands can be used to set +.Nm crunchgen +parameters for a component program. +.Bl -tag -width indent +.It Nm special Ar progname Nm srcdir Ar pathname +Set the source directory for +.Ar progname . +This is normally calculated by searching the specified +.Nm srcdirs +for a directory named +.Ar progname . +.It Nm special Ar progname Nm objdir Ar pathname +Set the obj directory for +.Ar progname . +This is normally calculated by looking for a directory named +.Dq Pa obj +under the +.Ar srcdir , +and if that is not found, the +.Ar srcdir +itself becomes the +.Ar objdir . +.It Nm special Ar progname Nm objs Ar object-file-name ... +Set the list of object files for program +.Ar progname . +This is normally calculated by constructing a temporary makefile that includes +.Dq Nm srcdir / Pa Makefile +and outputs the value of $(OBJS). +.It Nm special Ar progname Nm objpaths Ar full-pathname-to-object-file ... +Sets the pathnames of the object files for program +.Ar progname . +This is normally calculated by prepending the +.Nm objdir +pathname to each file in the +.Nm objs +list. +.El + +.Pp +Only the +.Nm objpaths +parameter is actually needed by +.Nm crunchgen , +but it is calculated from +.Nm objdir +and +.Nm objs , +which are in turn calculated from +.Nm srcdir , +so is sometimes convenient to specify the earlier parameters and let +.Nm crunchgen +calculate forward from there if it can. + +.Pp +The makefile produced by +.Nm crunchgen +contains an optional +.Ar objs +target that will build the object files for each component program by +running make inside that program's source directory. For this to work the +.Nm srcdir +and +.Nm objs +parameters must also be valid. If they are not valid for a particular program, that +program is skipped in the +.Ar objs +target. +.Sh EXAMPLE +Here is an example +.Nm crunchgen +input conf file, named +.Dq Pa kcopy.conf : +.Pp +.nf + srcdirs /usr/src/bin /usr/src/sbin + + progs test cp echo sh fsck halt init mount umount myinstall + ln test [ # test can be invoked via [ + ln sh -sh # init invokes the shell with "-sh" in argv[0] + + special myprog objpaths /homes/leroy/src/myinstall.o # no sources + + libs -lutil -lcrypt +.fi +.Pp +This conf file specifies a small crunched binary consisting of some +basic system utilities plus a homegrown install program ``myinstall'', +for which no source directory is specified, but its object file is +specified directly with the +.Nm special +line. +.Pp +The crunched binary ``kcopy'' can be built as follows: +.Pp +.nf + % crunchgen -m Makefile kcopy.conf # gen Makefile and kcopy.c + % make objs # build the component progams' .o files + % make # build the crunched binary kcopy + % kcopy sh # test that this invokes a sh shell + $ # it works! +.fi +.Pp +At this point the binary ``kcopy'' can be copied onto an install floppy +and hard-linked to the names of the component programs. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr crunchide 1 +.Sh CAVEATS +While +.Nm crunch +takes care to eliminate link conflicts between the component programs +of a crunched binary, conflicts are still possible between the +libraries that are linked in. Some shuffling in the order of +libraries may be required, and in some rare cases two libraries may +have an unresolveable conflict and thus cannot be crunched together. +.Pp +Some versions of the BSD build environment do not by default build the +intermediate object file for single-source file programs. The ``make +objs'' target must then be used to get those object files built, or +some other arrangements made. +.Sh AUTHOR +.Nm Crunch +was written by James da Silva <jds@cs.umd.edu>. +.sp 0 +Copyright (c) 1994 University of Maryland. All Rights Reserved. |