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[RFC PATCH v7 4/9] gitweb: Prepare for splitting gitweb

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 22, 2010, 23:56 UTC
Message-ID
<20101222235618.7998.17447.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To
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Prepare gitweb for having been split into modules that are to be installed alongside gitweb in 'lib/' subdirectory, by adding

  use lib __DIR__.'/lib';

to gitweb.perl (to main gitweb script), and preparing for putting modules (relative path) in $(GITWEB_MODULES) in gitweb/Makefile.

This preparatory work allows to add new module to gitweb by simply adding

  GITWEB_MODULES += <module>

to gitweb/Makefile (assuming that the module is in 'gitweb/lib/' directory).

While at it pass GITWEBLIBDIR in addition to GITWEB_TEST_INSTALLED to allow testing installed version of gitweb and installed version of modules (for future tests which would check individual (sub)modules).

Using __DIR__ from Dir::Self module (not in core, that's why currently gitweb includes excerpt of code from Dir::Self defining __DIR__) was chosen over using FindBin-based solution (in core since perl 5.00307, while gitweb itself requires at least perl 5.8.0) because FindBin uses BEGIN block, which is a problem under mod_perl and other persistent Perl environments (thought there are workarounds).

At Pavan Kumar Sankara suggestion gitweb/Makefile uses
  install [OPTION]... SOURCE... DIRECTORY
format (2nd format) with single SOURCE rather than
  install [OPTION]... SOURCE DEST

format (1st format) because of security reasons (race conditions). Modern GNU install has `-T' / `--no-target-directory' option, but we cannot rely that the $(INSTALL) we are using supports this option.

The install-modules target in gitweb/Makefile uses shell 'for' loop, instead of make's $(foreach) function, to avoid possible problem with generating a command line that exceeded the maximum argument list length.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
---
 gitweb/Makefile    |   17 +++++++++++++++--
 gitweb/gitweb.perl |    8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gitweb/Makefile b/gitweb/Makefile
index 0a6ac00..e6029e1 100644
--- a/gitweb/Makefile
+++ b/gitweb/Makefile
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ PERL_PATH  ?= /usr/bin/perl
 bindir_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(bindir))#'
 gitwebdir_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(gitwebdir))#'
 gitwebstaticdir_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(gitwebdir)/static)#'
+gitweblibdir_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(gitwebdir)/lib)#'
 SHELL_PATH_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(SHELL_PATH))#'
 PERL_PATH_SQ  = $(subst ','\'',$(PERL_PATH))#'
 DESTDIR_SQ    = $(subst ','\'',$(DESTDIR))#'
@@ -153,20 +154,32 @@ test:
 
 test-installed:
 	GITWEB_TEST_INSTALLED='$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(gitwebdir_SQ)' \
+	GITWEBLIBDIR='$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(gitweblibdir_SQ)' \
 		$(MAKE) -C ../t gitweb-test
 
 ### Installation rules
 
-install: all
+install: all install-modules
 	$(INSTALL) -d -m 755 '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(gitwebdir_SQ)'
 	$(INSTALL) -m 755 $(GITWEB_PROGRAMS) '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(gitwebdir_SQ)'
 	$(INSTALL) -d -m 755 '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(gitwebstaticdir_SQ)'
 	$(INSTALL) -m 644 $(GITWEB_FILES) '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(gitwebstaticdir_SQ)'
 
+install-modules:
+	install_dirs="$(sort $(dir $(GITWEB_MODULES)))" && \
+	for dir in $$install_dirs; do \
+		test -d '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(gitweblibdir_SQ)'/"$$dir" || \
+		$(INSTALL) -d -m 755 '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(gitweblibdir_SQ)'/"$$dir"; \
+	done
+	gitweb_modules="$(GITWEB_MODULES)" && \
+	for mod in $$gitweb_modules; do \
+		$(INSTALL) -m 644 "lib/$$mod" '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(gitweblibdir_SQ)'/"$$(dirname $$mod)"; \
+	done
+
 ### Cleaning rules
 
 clean:
 	$(RM) gitweb.cgi static/gitweb.min.js static/gitweb.min.css GITWEB-BUILD-OPTIONS
 
-.PHONY: all clean install test test-installed .FORCE-GIT-VERSION-FILE FORCE
+.PHONY: all clean install install-modules test test-installed .FORCE-GIT-VERSION-FILE FORCE
 
diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index e50654b..880fdf2 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
@@ -10,6 +10,14 @@
 use 5.008;
 use strict;
 use warnings;
+
+use File::Spec;
+# __DIR__ is taken from Dir::Self __DIR__ fragment
+sub __DIR__ () {
+	File::Spec->rel2abs(join '', (File::Spec->splitpath(__FILE__))[0, 1]);
+}
+use lib __DIR__ . '/lib';
+
 use CGI qw(:standard :escapeHTML -nosticky);
 use CGI::Util qw(unescape);
 use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
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  2. 1/9 gitweb: Go to DONE_REQUEST rather than DONE_GITWEB in die_errorJakub Narebski, Dec 22, 2010
  3. Jonathan NiederDec 23, 2010
  4. Jakub NarebskiDec 25, 2010
  5. diff: funcname and word patterns for perlJonathan Nieder, Dec 26, 2010
  6. Jakub NarebskiDec 26, 2010
  7. Junio C HamanoDec 27, 2010
  8. Jakub NarebskiDec 27, 2010
  9. Jeff KingDec 28, 2010
  10. Jonathan NiederDec 26, 2010
  11. Jakub NarebskiDec 26, 2010
  12. 2/9 gitweb: use eval + die for error (exception) handlingJakub Narebski, Dec 22, 2010
  13. Jonathan NiederDec 23, 2010
  14. Jakub NarebskiDec 25, 2010
  15. 5/9 gitweb: Make die_error just die, and use send_error to create error pagesJakub Narebski, Jan 4, 2011
  16. 3/9 gitweb: Introduce %actions_info, gathering information about actionsJakub Narebski, Dec 22, 2010
  17. 4/9 gitweb: Prepare for splitting gitwebJakub Narebski, Dec 22, 2010
  18. Jonathan NiederDec 24, 2010
  19. Jakub NarebskiDec 26, 2010
  20. 5/9 t/test-lib.sh: Export also GIT_BUILD_DIR in test_externalJakub Narebski, Dec 22, 2010
  21. 6/9 gitweb/lib - Simple output capture by redirecting STDOUT to fileJakub Narebski, Dec 22, 2010
  22. Jonathan NiederDec 24, 2010
  23. Jakub NarebskiDec 26, 2010
  24. 7/9 gitweb/lib - Very simple file based cacheJakub Narebski, Dec 22, 2010
  25. 8/9 gitweb/lib - Cache captured output (using compute_fh)Jakub Narebski, Dec 22, 2010
  26. 9/9 gitweb: Add optional output cachingJakub Narebski, Dec 22, 2010
  27. 10/9 gitweb: Background cache generation and progress indicatorJakub Narebski, Dec 31, 2010
  28. 11/9 [PoC] gitweb/lib - tee, i.e. print and capture during cache entry generationJakub Narebski, Jan 3, 2011
  29. J.H.Jan 3, 2011
  30. Jakub NarebskiJan 4, 2011
  31. Jakub NarebskiJan 4, 2011
  32. 11/9 [PoC] gitweb/lib - HTTP-aware output cachingJakub Narebski, Jan 5, 2011
  33. Jonathan NiederDec 26, 2010
  34. Jonathan NiederDec 26, 2010

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