Retire WITHOUT_CXX option

[emaste]

Summary

Several important base system components are written in C++, and the
WITHOUT_CXX option is not regularly tested and breaks often. Accept
this, and remove the option to build without C++ support.

[jhb]

Agree with the idea in general.

Makefile.inc1

2986

Should this move up into the initial list a few lines earlier instead?

3154

Similarly, just merge this into the list above?

lib/Makefile

187

Should references to these libraries (e.g. ${_libcxxrt}) now just be expanded inline instead?

lib/libproc/Makefile

21

Maybe merge this with the LIBADD below?

tools/build/mk/OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc

3722

I'm a bit surprised there isn't a MK_TOOLCHAIN that covers removing these still? Maybe that would just remove clang though anyway, and not the libraries and headers.

[emaste]

Update with @jhb feedback (except OptionalObsoleteFiles)

[emaste]

Makefile.inc1

3154

done with rewrapping

tools/build/mk/OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc

3722

Hmm, need to double-check.

[emaste]

tools/build/mk/OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc

3722

I think there's no knob other than MK_CXX. These will now be installed always and will be just like libc or other /usr/include headers.

4273–4274

but maybe we need to add these somewhere for turning off lib32

[emaste]

tools/build/mk/OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc

4273–4274

No - ${MK_LIB32} == no is handled using find below

[emaste]

Posted a link to this review on the freebsd-hackers@ mailing list.

[emaste]

Discussed libc++ on IRC with @jrtc27. As a followup we may want to move libc++.so.1 from /usr/lib to /lib, and then stop linking devd statically. (See R10:9a4e73fe5ea6f6fe518de8cb3d23cf6e397c8896)

[jhb]

I think moving libc++ to /lib is fine, but should probably be a separate change. Fixing the lack of working MK_TOOLCHAIN in OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc also seems like it would be a separate change?

Hmm, on the OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc front, it does seem that MK_TOOLCHAIN=no does handle some of this as things like MK_CLANG have handling in OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc. It's true that we don't support MK_INCLUDES in OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc, but it might be nice to not regress 'make WITHOUT_TOOLCHAIN=yes delete-old' at least in terms of binaries like /usr/bin/CC and /usr/bin/c++. It may just mean moving those into the MK_CLANG block? Those two are installed today by usr.bin/clang/clang/Makefile. The cc1plus and g++ binaries are specific to GCC and should just be listed in the unconditional ObsoleteFiles.inc if they aren't already. (I just checked and the GCC ones are already handled correctly in ObsoleteFiles.inc).

[emaste]

I think moving libc++ to /lib is fine, but should probably be a separate change.

That one's D33123.

Fixing the lack of working MK_TOOLCHAIN in OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc also seems like it would be a separate change?

Yes, could be. I cleaned up cc1plus and g++ just now, in 1b9344add475.

We have the following groups of files to deal with:

1. usr/bin/{CC,c++}
2. lib/libcxxrt.so.1
3. usr/{lib,lib32}/libc++*
4. usr/{lib,lib32}/libcxxrt.*
5. usr/include/c++/v1/*

MK_TOOLCHAIN indeed seems correct for #1. We can move #5 to a new MK_INCLUDES (with a comment that it's only the C++ includes at present). This leaves only the runtime lib components libcxxrt and libc++, in various combinations.

[jhb]

In D33108#750297, @emaste wrote:

Yes, could be. I cleaned up cc1plus and g++ just now, in 1b9344add475.

We have the following groups of files to deal with:

1. usr/bin/{CC,c++}
2. lib/libcxxrt.so.1
3. usr/{lib,lib32}/libc++*
4. usr/{lib,lib32}/libcxxrt.*
5. usr/include/c++/v1/*

MK_TOOLCHAIN indeed seems correct for #1. We can move #5 to a new MK_INCLUDES (with a comment that it's only the C++ includes at present). This leaves only the runtime lib components libcxxrt and libc++, in various combinations.

I would just move #1 to MK_CLANG since that if you build WITHOUT_CLANG they don't get installed (so they really should be part of MK_CLANG). #2-#4 I'm fine with losing. Maybe someday if we add MK_INCLUDES support that would cover #5. I don't think we need to fix #5 for now though. I would just move #1 into MK_CLANG in this commit and then call it a day.

[emaste]

Rebase

[emaste]

tools/build/mk/OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc

1609–1610

This one is already included in ${MK_TOOLCHAIN}

[emaste]

tools/build/mk/OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc

1609–1610

Now removed in c3f345ae3c0f

[emaste]

rebase

[emaste]

Rebase

[brooks]

It was mentioned on IRC that one reason to keep this is to reduce FS size. IMO if you're at the point wehre this makes a meaningful difference it's time to switch from a subtractive image creation process to an additive one.

It is very occasionally useful to be able to disable CXX things for bootstrapping a new platform with an immature compiler, but there aren't so many things that it's hard to just hack them out of the tree on a temporary basis.

lib/Makefile

217–218

[kevans]

In D33108#868474, @brooks wrote:

It was mentioned on IRC that one reason to keep this is to reduce FS size. IMO if you're at the point wehre this makes a meaningful difference it's time to switch from a subtractive image creation process to an additive one.

+1

[ceri]

UPDATING and src.conf.5 updates too?

[emaste]

UPDATING and src.conf.5 updates too?

Staged locally now