Re: [PATCH 2/4] Generate makefile file lists from a script

Demi Marie Obenour
2025-09-08T18:45:46Z

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On 9/8/25 05:59, Alyssa Ross wrote:
> Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> The script will always get them right, whereas humans (the author of
>> this commit included) generally will not.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour@gmail.com>
>
> I like the idea!
>
>> ---
>> Documentation/development/built-in-vms.adoc | 7 ++
>> host/rootfs/Makefile | 107 ++------------------------
>> host/rootfs/file-list.mk | 100 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> img/app/Makefile | 74 +++---------------
>> img/app/file-list.mk | 65 ++++++++++++++++
>> lib/common.mk | 1 +
>> scripts/genfiles.awk | 115 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> vm/sys/net/Makefile | 51 +++---------
>> vm/sys/net/file-list.mk | 41 ++++++++++
>> 9 files changed, 357 insertions(+), 204 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/development/built-in-vms.adoc b/Documentation/development/built-in-vms.adoc
>> index e90009ee5a3c2c254a7ae11e36121576b819eee7..82d78705a6020bbdb06fbc123a32dbdd6fd50085 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/development/built-in-vms.adoc
>> +++ b/Documentation/development/built-in-vms.adoc
>> @@ -44,6 +44,13 @@ NOTE: As a special convenience, it's not necessary to run `make clean`
>> if the only change to the Nix files is modifying the packages
>> installed in the VM.
>>
>> +The list of files used for the VM image is stored in a separate file,
>> +`file-lists.mk`. You can edit it manually when developing. However,
>> +after each commit that adds or removes files from it, you should run
>> +`make update-file-list`, which will regenerate it from the output of
>> +`git ls-files`. Any changes you made will be lost. This ensures
>> +that the file lists are always in sync with the git repository.
>> +
>
> TBH editing it manually and then losing your changes is probably going
> to be more of a footgun than anything else. You can get the same result
> by staging new files and rerunning the script, so I'd avoid mentioning
> the manual editing option, especially given you have a "DO NOT EDIT"
> comment.
>
>> -$(dest): ../../scripts/make-erofs.sh $(PACKAGES_FILE) $(addprefix image/,$(FILES)) $(BUILD_FILES) build/empty build/fifo
>> +$(dest): ../../scripts/make-erofs.sh $(PACKAGES_FILE) $(addprefix image/,$(FILES)) $(BUILD_FILES) build/empty build/fifo file-list.mk
>
> Given that we don't include Makefile as a dependency, it probably
> doesn't make sense to depend on other included Makefile fragments
> either?

If the user regenerates the file lists, it is more convenient for
them to not need to call 'make clean', and having the dependency is
harmless.

>> @@ -207,6 +111,11 @@ debug:
>> $(VMLINUX)
>> .PHONY: debug
>>
>> +update-file-list:
>> + ../../scripts/genfiles.awk image > file-list.mk
>> +
>> +.PHONY: update-file-list
>> +
>
> Given this doesn't use any features of Make, it probably makes more
> sense to just run the script directly. It could output into
> file-list.mk by default for ergonomics.

Makes sense.

>> run: build/live.img $(EXT_FS) build/rootfs.verity.roothash
>> @set -x && \
>> ext="$$(mktemp build/spectrum-rootfs-extfs.XXXXXXXXXX.img)" && \
>> diff --git a/host/rootfs/file-list.mk b/host/rootfs/file-list.mk
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0817887d0bb25ab47e777f6a130a3b6214b25f0f
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/host/rootfs/file-list.mk
>> @@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
>> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0
>> +# SPDX-FileCopyRightText: Not Copyrightable (machine-written)
>
> SPDX-FileCopy*r*ightText, and should probably say that you're the owner,
> for consistency with e.g. lib/nixpkgs.default.nix, which is also
> generated. You at least made the template.

Makes sense.

>> +# Generated by scripts/genfile.awk, DO NOT EDIT!
>> +override FILES ::= \
>
> Our Makefiles are POSIX. (Mostly because it's the only sensible way to
> draw the line, and keep all the really advanced easy to misuse GNU stuff
> out.)

This is going to make factoring out common logic more difficult.
I'll go into detail in the reply to your review to the next patch.

>> diff --git a/lib/common.mk b/lib/common.mk
>> index 277c3544036d9a9057f8ba4ad37fe2207548cc59..0a03ff440cc671264d2b859a2ae048db9252d047 100644
>> --- a/lib/common.mk
>> +++ b/lib/common.mk
>> @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
>> # SPDX-License-Identifier: EUPL-1.2+
>> # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021, 2023, 2025 Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>
>> +# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour@gmail.com>
>>
>> BACKGROUND = background
>> CPIO = cpio
>
> This change looks like an accident?

Should have gone in the next patch.

>> diff --git a/scripts/genfiles.awk b/scripts/genfiles.awk
>> new file mode 100755
>> index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..62863e78f157f1d9a0f6dbdb0f4380db9c9d48cb
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/scripts/genfiles.awk
>> @@ -0,0 +1,115 @@
>> +#!/usr/bin/env -S LC_ALL=C LANGUAGE=C awk -E
>> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: EUPL-1.2+
>> +# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour@gmail.com>
>> +function check_status(status) {
>> + if (status < 0) {
>> + printf "FATAL: getline: %s\n", status > "/dev/stderr";
>> + exit 1;
>> + }
>> + return status;
>> +}
>> +
>> +function check_close(value, status) {
>> + status = check_status(close(value));
>> + if (status != 0) {
>> + printf "FATAL: command exited with status %d\n", status > "/dev/stderr";
>> + exit status;
>> + }
>> +}
>> +
>> +function shell_quote(command) {
>> + gsub(/'/, "'\\\\&'", command);
>> + return ("'" command "'");
>> +}
>> +
>> +function get(command, line, path, array_index, inode_type, mode, modes, symlink_count, symlinks, file_count, files, rc_count, rc_files, is_license, is_rc) {
>> + file_count = 0;
>> + symlink_count = 0;
>> + rc_count = 0;
>> + modes["120000"] = "symlink";
>> + modes["040644"] = "directory";
>> + modes["040755"] = "directory";
>> + modes["100644"] = "regular";
>> + modes["100755"] = "regular";
>> + print "# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0";
>> + print "# SPDX-FileCopyRightText: Not Copyrightable (machine-written)";
>> + print "# Generated by scripts/genfile.awk, DO NOT EDIT!";
>> + while (check_status(command | getline line)) {
>> + if (line !~ /^[0-7]{6}\t/) {
>> + # this is a git bug
>> + print "FATAL: git ls-files output didn't start with a valid mode" > "/dev/stderr";
>> + exit 1;
>> + }
>> + path = substr(line, 8);
>> + if (path !~ /^[ -~]+$/) {
>> + # also a git bug
>> + print "FATAL: git ls-files didn't quote properly" > "/dev/stderr";
>> + exit 1;
>> + }
>> + if (path ~ /^\/|((^|\/)\.{0,2}($|\/))/) {
>> + # also a git bug
>> + printf "FATAL: git ls-files output non-canonical path '%s'\n", path > "/dev/stderr";
>> + exit 1;
>> + }
>> + if (path !~ /^[[:alnum:]_.+@/-]+$/) {
>> + printf "FATAL: filename '%s' has forbidden characters\n", path > "/dev/stderr";
>> + exit 1;
>> + }
>
> I feel like this could be a lot nicer if we ran git ls-files outside
> awk, and could then use its nice top-level matching syntax?

That would work, but would need a wrapper script.

>> + mode = modes[substr(line, 1, 6)];
>> + is_license = path ~ /\.license$/;
>> + is_rc = path ~ /^etc\/s6-rc\//;
>> + if (mode == "regular") {
>> + if (is_license) {
>> + continue;
>> + }
>> + if (is_rc) {
>> + rc_count += 1;
>> + rc_files[rc_count] = path;
>> + } else {
>> + file_count += 1;
>> + files[file_count] = path;
>> + }
>> + continue;
>> + }
>> + if (mode == "symlink") {
>> + if (is_rc) {
>> + printf "FATAL: symlink in s6-rc-compile input: %s\n", path;
>> + exit 1;
>> + }
>> + symlink_count += 1;
>> + symlinks[symlink_count] = path;
>> + } else if (mode != "directory") {
>> + printf "FATAL: file %s has unknown mode %s\n", path, substr(line, 1, 6) > "/dev/stderr";
>> + exit 1;
>> + }
>> + if (is_license) {
>> + printf "FATAL: %s (type %s) ends in .license\n", path, mode > "/dev/stderr";
>> + exit 1;
>> + }
>> + }
>> + check_close(command);
>> +
>> + printf "override FILES ::=";
>> + for (array_index = 1; array_index <= file_count; array_index += 1) {
>> + printf " \\\n\t%s", files[array_index];
>> + }
>> + printf ("\n\n" \
>> +"# These are separate because they need to be included, but putting\n" \
>> +"# them as make dependencies would confuse make.\n" \
>> +"override LINKS ::=");
>> + for (array_index = 1; array_index <= symlink_count; array_index += 1) {
>> + printf " \\\n\t%s", symlinks[array_index];
>> + }
>> + printf "\n\noverride S6_RC_FILES ::=";
>> + for (array_index = 1; array_index <= rc_count; array_index += 1) {
>> + printf " \\\n\t%s", rc_files[array_index];
>> + }
>> + printf "\n"
>> +}
>> +
>> +BEGIN {
>> + RS = "\n";
>> + FS = "\t";
>> + get("set -euo pipefail && { git -c core.quotePath=true -C " shell_quote(ARGV[1]) " ls-files '--format=%(objectmode)\t%(path)' -- .|sort -t '\t' -k 2;}");
>> + exit 0;
>> +}
--
Sincerely,
Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)

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