Meson is a modern build system that has seen a rise in adoption and some
version of it is available in almost every platform supported.
Compared to automake, meson has the following advantages:
* Meson provides a significant boost to the build and configuration time
by better exploiting parallelism.
* Meson is subjectively considered to be better in readability.
These merits alone justify experimenting with meson as a way of
improving development time and ergonomics. However, there are some
compromises to ensure the transition goes relatively smooth:
* The system tests currently rely on various files within the source
directory. Changing this requirement is a non-trivial task that can't
be currently justified. Currently the last compiled build directory
writes into the source tree which is in turn used by pytest.
* The minimum version supported has been fixed at 0.61. Increasing this
value will require choosing a baseline of distributions that can
package with meson. On the contrary, there will likely be an attempt
to decrease this value to ensure almost universal support for building
BIND 9 with meson.
With the introduction of the generated changelog, the CHANGES file
became a symlink to doc/arm/changelog.rst. After the changes made in
!9549, the changelog file transitioned from being a wholly generated
file to one that includes versioned changelog files, which are
themselves generated. However, while implementing !9549, we overlooked
that the CHANGES file is copied to a release directory on an FTP server
and contains just "include" directives, not the changelog itself.
Therefore, in the same fashion as the "RELEASE-NOTES*.html" file, create
a "CHANGELOG*.html" file that redirects to the Changelog appendix of the
ARM.
Read the Docs is capable of building the PDF version of the BIND 9 ARM
using just the contents of the doc/arm/ directory - it does not need the
build system to facilitate that. Since the BIND 9 ARM is also built in
other formats when "make doc" is run, drop the parts of the build system
that enable building the PDF version as they pull in complexity without
bringing much added value in return. Update related files accordingly.
To follow current best practices, create a short SECURITY.md file in the
root of the repository that contains information about the project's
security policy and guidelines for reporting potential security issues.
Replace the relevant bits of text in other files with references to the
new SECURITY.md file, so that the relevant information only needs to be
maintained in one place.
Replace all occurrences of the generic security-officer@isc.org email
with a dedicated address for reporting BIND 9 security issues,
bind-security@isc.org.
This commit converts the license handling to adhere to the REUSE
specification. It specifically:
1. Adds used licnses to LICENSES/ directory
2. Add "isc" template for adding the copyright boilerplate
3. Changes all source files to include copyright and SPDX license
header, this includes all the C sources, documentation, zone files,
configuration files. There are notes in the doc/dev/copyrights file
on how to add correct headers to the new files.
4. Handle the rest that can't be modified via .reuse/dep5 file. The
binary (or otherwise unmodifiable) files could have license places
next to them in <foo>.license file, but this would lead to cluttered
repository and most of the files handled in the .reuse/dep5 file are
system test files.
The native PKCS#11 support has been removed in favour of better
maintained, more performance and easier to use OpenSSL PKCS#11 engine
from the OpenSC project.
This commit adds two new autoconf options `--enable-doh` (enabled by
default) and `--with-libnghttp2` (mandatory when DoH is enabled).
When DoH support is disabled the library is not linked-in and support
for http(s) protocol is disabled in the netmgr, named and dig.
We should drop the HISTORY file because it's confusing and the same
information is covered by the release notes for .0 releases (or at
least they should be).
Remove references to the HISTORY file, update the README to tell
people go look somewhere else.
The Windows support has been completely removed from the source tree
and BIND 9 now no longer supports native compilation on Windows.
We might consider reviewing mingw-w64 port if contributed by external
party, but no development efforts will be put into making BIND 9 compile
and run on Windows again.
While libltdl is a feature-rich library, BIND 9 code only uses its basic
capabilities, which are also provided by libuv and which BIND 9 already
uses for other purposes. As libuv's cross-platform shared library
handling interface is modeled after the POSIX dlopen() interface,
converting code using the latter to the former is simple. Replace
libltdl function calls with their libuv counterparts, refactoring the
code as necessary. Remove all use of libltdl from the BIND 9 source
tree.
The rewrite of BIND 9 build system is a large work and cannot be reasonable
split into separate merge requests. Addition of the automake has a positive
effect on the readability and maintainability of the build system as it is more
declarative, it allows conditional and we are able to drop all of the custom
make code that BIND 9 developed over the years to overcome the deficiencies of
autoconf + custom Makefile.in files.
This squashed commit contains following changes:
- conversion (or rather fresh rewrite) of all Makefile.in files to Makefile.am
by using automake
- the libtool is now properly integrated with automake (the way we used it
was rather hackish as the only official way how to use libtool is via
automake
- the dynamic module loading was rewritten from a custom patchwork to libtool's
libltdl (which includes the patchwork to support module loading on different
systems internally)
- conversion of the unit test executor from kyua to automake parallel driver
- conversion of the system test executor from custom make/shell to automake
parallel driver
- The GSSAPI has been refactored, the custom SPNEGO on the basis that
all major KRB5/GSSAPI (mit-krb5, heimdal and Windows) implementations
support SPNEGO mechanism.
- The various defunct tests from bin/tests have been removed:
bin/tests/optional and bin/tests/pkcs11
- The text files generated from the MD files have been removed, the
MarkDown has been designed to be readable by both humans and computers
- The xsl header is now generated by a simple sed command instead of
perl helper
- The <irs/platform.h> header has been removed
- cleanups of configure.ac script to make it more simpler, addition of multiple
macros (there's still work to be done though)
- the tarball can now be prepared with `make dist`
- the system tests are partially able to run in oot build
Here's a list of unfinished work that needs to be completed in subsequent merge
requests:
- `make distcheck` doesn't yet work (because of system tests oot run is not yet
finished)
- documentation is not yet built, there's a different merge request with docbook
to sphinx-build rst conversion that needs to be rebased and adapted on top of
the automake
- msvc build is non functional yet and we need to decide whether we will just
cross-compile bind9 using mingw-w64 or fix the msvc build
- contributed dlz modules are not included neither in the autoconf nor automake
With the introduction of dnssec-policy, the aforementioned tools were
either rendered obsolete, or they will be replaced with dnssec-policy
based tools. Remove the tools and the requirement to have Python
installed. Python 3 is still being used for tests, so keep the autoconf
test, but make it much simpler.
The files configure.ac and version are already up to date.
Updated CHANGES with 9.17.0 release line.
Fixed CHANGES by adding GitLab reference to entry 5357 and fix
grammar mistakes.
Add missing /util/check-make-install.in to .gitattributes.
The lib/*/api are already updated to match the new ranges.
I listed two new features under BIND 9.17 features that to me
seemed noteworthy.
The release notes look good to me.
Bring the files describing Windows-specific aspects of building and
installing BIND up to date. Remove the parts which are either outdated
(e.g. 32-bit build instructions), already included elsewhere (e.g. the
list of Windows systems BIND is known to run on), or inconvenient to
keep up to date in the long run (e.g. ARM chapter numbers).
Fixing typos, typographical glitches. Added backticks around binaries,
modules, and libraries so it's more consistent. Added a paragraph with
ISC Security Policy.
For newer versions of Xcode, "xcode-select --install" no longer installs
system headers into /usr/include (instead, they are installed in the
Xcode directory tree), so do not mention that path in the macOS section
of README to prevent confusion.
Previously the autoconf script set sysconfdir to /etc and localstatedir to /var
if they were not explicitly set in the ./configure invocation. This MR reverts
the override and make it more in line with default and generally expected
autoconf behavior.
