This is a hackish way to allow waf running on windows. In some
combinations of the tools the python interpreter seems to be crashing on
windows:
Found 180 MAVLink message types in 2 XML files
Generating C implementation in directory /tmp/ArduPlane.build/libraries/GCS_MAVLink/include/mavlink/v1.0/ardupilotmega
Generating C implementation in directory /tmp/ArduPlane.build/libraries/GCS_MAVLink/include/mavlink/v1.0/common
Copying fixed headers
last line in mavgen.py
Aborted (core dumped)
michael@WIN-3NBOUTHN4TN /cygdrive/c/Users/michael/Desktop/DIYDrones/ardupilot/ArduPlane
$ echo $?
134
Here we check the return code to be greater than 128 since that means the
interpreter received a signal. In this case we clear the return code.
With this change, there's no need to verify if the submodule is initialized,
because the submodules in GIT_SUBMODULES are automatically initialized and
updated if necessary before the build tasks are performed.
One downside of this change is that Google Benchmark configuration is now done
only during build. However that is minor, since now there are easy ways to
separately build different targets and program groups, so that a fail in
benchmark build doesn't really affect the other targets.
The configure function was reorganized for:
- removing variables that are not used
- making it more general, i.e., not relying in ardupilotmega.xml, so that this
tool can be used for generating other headers in the future
The option target for the waf task generator is meant for actual files that are
going to be build. Since our target files are dynamic, let's change the code to
use a new parameter output_dir instead.
By setting env.env during configure time makes changes be for the whole build
system scope and persistently, which may cause problems for other tasks and
tools.
Since the output list for mavgen is dynamic, in the sense that we don't have
the information of what files will be generated by the task, that is not
captured by default by waf and post_run can't save the task signature for those
files. Although that doesn't cause build errors, the build time increase
significantly for when tasks that use the generate files are included (for
example, vehicles builds).
This patch search for the headers that were created by the task and set the
task signature for them. Using ant_glob isn't a very good solution, since there
may be stray file in the local build directory, but let's use that for now
until we find a better approach.
Andrew Tridgell
Gustavo Jose de Sousa
Lucas De Marchi
Siddharth Bharat Purohit