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.
The lock-file configuration (both from configuration file and -X
argument to named) has better alternatives nowadays. Modern process
supervisor should be used to ensure that a single named process is
running on a given configuration.
Alternatively, it's possible to wrap the named with flock(1).
The old name "common" clashes with the convention of system test
directory naming. It appears as a system test directory, but it only
contains helper files.
To reduce confusion and to allow automatic detection of issues with
possibly missing test files, rename the helper directory to "_common".
The leading underscore indicates the directory is different and the its
name can no longer be confused with regular system test directories.
The "uname -o" command is harmful on OpenBSD because this platform does
not know about the "-o" option. It is a permanent failure since system
tests are started with "set -e".
When the TCP test is run on the busy server, the server might take a
while to wind the server down because it might still be processing all
that 300k invalid XFR requests.
Increate the rncd wait time to 120 seconds, the SIGTERM time to 300
seconds, and reduce the time to wait for ans servers from 1200 second
to just 120 seconds.
- Removed all code that only runs under CYGWIN, and made all
code that doesn't run under CYGWIN non-optional.
- Removed the $TP variable which was used to add optional
trailing dots to filenames; they're no longer optional.
- Removed references to pssuspend and dos2unix.
- No need to use environment variables for diff and kill.
- Removed uses of "tr -d '\r'"; this was a workaround for
a cygwin regex bug that is no longer needed.
Commit c787a539d2a931ba9023677c1c269ed191455512 fixed a certain class of
intermittent system test failures caused by named instances unable to
restart. The root cause was bin/tests/system/stop.pl returning without
waiting for a named instance to remove its lock file.
Later on, it turned out that the above change causes other issues on
Windows due to the way named handles signals on that platform. Commit
761ba4514f7eceab8019d71dc9cabd269d274597 intended to address those
issues by making the server_lock_file() subroutine in
bin/tests/system/stop.pl return an empty value on Windows, in order to
prevent the script for waiting for lock file cleanup on that platform.
Note, however, that Windows detection in that subroutine is limited to
checking whether the CYGWIN environment variable is set.
While that environment variable was not set on Unix-like systems before
commit 761ba4514f7eceab8019d71dc9cabd269d274597, another commit
(a33237f070c95480f581d85b0169f41ce5a12017, merged a few weeks later)
changed that by setting the CYGWIN environment variable to an empty
value on Unix-like systems. This made the defined($ENV{'CYGWIN'}) check
in server_lock_file() return true, inadvertently preventing
bin/tests/system/stop.pl from waiting for lock file removal before
exiting on Unix-like systems and therefore reintroducing the original
issue.
Fix by making server_lock_file() only return an empty value when the
CYGWIN environment variable is set to a non-empty value (which is what
bin/tests/system/conf.sh.win32 does). Adjust a similar check in the
pid_file_exists() subroutine in the same way for consistency.
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 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
- restore support for tcp-initial-timeout, tcp-idle-timeout,
tcp-keepalive-timeout and tcp-advertised-timeout configuration
options, which were ineffective previously.
As signals are currently not handled by named on Windows, instances
terminated using signals are not able to perform a clean shutdown, which
involves e.g. removing the lock file. Thus, waiting for a given
instance's lock file to be removed beforing assuming it is shut down
is pointless on Windows, so do not even attempt it.
bin/tests/system/stop.pl only waits for the PID file to be cleaned up
while named cleans up the lock file after the PID file. Thus, the
aforementioned script may consider a named instance to be fully shut
down when in fact it is not.
Fix by also checking whether the lock file exists when determining a
given instance's shutdown status. This change assumes that if a named
instance uses a lock file, it is called "named.lock".
Also rename clean_pid_file() to pid_file_exists(), so that it is called
more appropriately (it does not clean up the PID file itself, it only
returns the server's identifier if its PID file is not yet cleaned up).
On Unix systems, the CYGWIN environment variable is not set at all when
BIND system tests are run. If a named instance crashes on shutdown or
otherwise fails to clean up its pidfile and the CYGWIN environment
variable is not set, stop.pl will print an uninitialized value warning
on standard error. Prevent this by using defined().
When an inline-signed zone is loaded, the master file for its signed
version is loaded and then a rollforward of the journal for the signed
version of the zone is performed. If DNS_JOURNALOPT_RESIGN is not set
during the latter phase, signatures loaded from the journal for the
signed version of the zone will not be scheduled for refresh. Fix the
conditional expression determining which flags should be used for the
dns_journal_rollforward() call so that DNS_JOURNALOPT_RESIGN is set when
zone_postload() is called for the signed version of an inline-signed
zone.
Extend bin/tests/system/stop.pl so that it can use "rndc halt" instead
of "rndc stop" as the former allows master file flushing upon shutdown
to be suppressed.
- add CHANGES note
- update copyrights and license headers
- add -j to the make commands in .gitlab-ci.yml to take
advantage of parallelization in the gitlab CI process
4708. [cleanup] Legacy Windows builds (i.e. for XP and earlier)
are no longer supported. [RT #45186]
4707. [func] The lightweight resolver daemon and library (lwresd
and liblwres) have been removed. [RT #45186]
4706. [func] Code implementing name server query processing has
been moved from bin/named to a new library "libns".
Functions remaining in bin/named are now prefixed
with "named_" rather than "ns_". This will make it
easier to write unit tests for name server code, or
link name server functionality into new tools.
[RT #45186]
