The find_realexec_path function was used for finding the toolchain path mostly
because of two reasons:
1) We couldn't really use CXX or CC variables because the user could set those
from the OS's environment and Waf wouldn't look for the executable file in
that case.
2) Our CI configuration sets up symlinks for ccache and find_realexec_path
works around that issue.
The bad side about using find_realexec_path() is that, besides working aroung
symlinks, it does the same thing that is done by Waf. This patch removes the
dependency for such a function by addressing each of the reasons above stated:
1) We create a local copy of os.environ and, if there's a variable with the
same name we are using, we remove it from the local copy.
2) As done before, we are looking for the cross ar program instead of gcc
program, since that is not used for ccache symlinks.
This is a better approach than checking command line options
--check-cxx-compiler and --check-c-compiler. Those values expect a list of
compilers to try instead of the compiler to use.
The benefits of this approach are:
- Allowing correct use of options --check-cxx-compiler and --check-c-compiler.
- Allowing user to pass CXX and CC environment variables, which is a common
way of selecting the compiler.
- Configuration is done *and committed* only for the specific compiler.
This is a better approach than checking command line options
--check-cxx-compiler and --check-c-compiler. Those values expect a list of
compilers to try instead of the compiler to use.
The benefits of this approach are:
- Allowing correct use of options --check-cxx-compiler and --check-c-compiler.
- Allowing user to pass CXX and CC environment variables, which is a common
way of selecting the compiler.
- Configuration is done *and committed* only for the specific compiler.
It makes more sense the toolchain Waf tool to be responsible of loading the
compilers. Furthermore, that allows toolchain tool to have control on doing
configuration before and after loading compiler tools.
- Use early return and reduce one indentation level.
- Set AR for both GNU compilers and clang just once and reduce redundancy.
- Reduce indentation level for clang-specific setup. There's no need to nest it
inside check if compilers are GNU or clang.
PX4 isn't supported at the moment and sitltest always use GCC, so we include the only ones that build
Travis has old LLVM installed and old Clang in a strange path (not a package) which interfere with the use of clang-3.7
Copy the program library to the place where PX4Firmware CMake build will look
for and trigger the firmware build. There isn't really a real output defined
for px4_copy_lib because Waf would complain about multiple tasks having same
output when building multiple programs.
After the firmware build, copy it to the correct place (from program group and
name perspective) and add git hashes.
Since the place where the library is placed is shared by different target
programs, we need to synchronize the firmware build, that's why the use of
_firmware_semaphorish_tasks. That variable is set as a list because of the
upcoming upload task.
Recursively collect objects from dependency libraries and create a single
library. That way we just need to pass down one single library to PX4Firmware
build system.
In the upcoming build for PX4 boards, we will pass down the program a single
static library to PX4 Firmware's cmake build system. This patch is partially
providing a way to do that: the configuration for PX4 will define the
AP_PROGRAM_AS_STLIB environment variable.
The function ap_program() was the only one that was using it, so let's just
inline it. Besides, the name was misleading, since the (only) feature added was
for programs instead of general task generators.
