One sentence summary of this PR (This should go in the CHANGELOG!)
Add PatchMaker option to auto-choose a linux cross-compiler header include path
PatchFromSourceModifier and FunctionReplaceModifier automatically include cross-compile headers for target system
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Please describe the changes in your request.
Automatically include the linux cross-compile headers. These headers are necessary for any patch which would need to use things defined in these headers; because we can install the standard headers and pretty easily determine which set of headers we need, and it would be a pain for a user to figure out on their own (you get errors about headers being missing, most google results will suggest you install gcc-multilib which actually uninstalls all of our GNU toolchains), I think it's very much worth adding. Including these headers makes it much more likely a user's patch "just works."
That option currently defaults to False (don't auto-include these headers). However, the PatchFromSourceModifier and FunctionReplaceModifier always use it.
Also note that it is a PatchMaker option, not a Toolchain option. I'm willing to move it to ToolchainConfig, but I wanted to test the waters for moving some options out of ToolchainConfig and into PatchMaker. My thoughts are that some options are much more related to the "meta" workings of PatchMaker than the actual object files being built. Some other options that I believe would more naturally fit in PatchMaker.init and not ToolchainConfig are:
create_map_files
check_overlap
userspace_dynamic_linker (not too sure about this option)
perhaps debug_info
These are options that are not so much concerned with that actual code in the object files, but additional functionality/features that may be generated in addition to the code.
Anyone you think should look at this, specifically?
One sentence summary of this PR (This should go in the CHANGELOG!)
PatchFromSourceModifier
andFunctionReplaceModifier
automatically include cross-compile headers for target systemLink to Related Issue(s)
Please describe the changes in your request.
Automatically include the linux cross-compile headers. These headers are necessary for any patch which would need to use things defined in these headers; because we can install the standard headers and pretty easily determine which set of headers we need, and it would be a pain for a user to figure out on their own (you get errors about headers being missing, most google results will suggest you install gcc-multilib which actually uninstalls all of our GNU toolchains), I think it's very much worth adding. Including these headers makes it much more likely a user's patch "just works."
That option currently defaults to False (don't auto-include these headers). However, the PatchFromSourceModifier and FunctionReplaceModifier always use it.
Also note that it is a PatchMaker option, not a Toolchain option. I'm willing to move it to ToolchainConfig, but I wanted to test the waters for moving some options out of ToolchainConfig and into PatchMaker. My thoughts are that some options are much more related to the "meta" workings of PatchMaker than the actual object files being built. Some other options that I believe would more naturally fit in PatchMaker.init and not ToolchainConfig are:
These are options that are not so much concerned with that actual code in the object files, but additional functionality/features that may be generated in addition to the code.
Anyone you think should look at this, specifically?