On Sat, 2019-12-07 at 07:39 -0700, Jeff Law wrote:
> On Fri, 2019-11-15 at 20:23 -0500, David Malcolm wrote:
> > This patch adds support for "in-tree" plugins i.e. GCC plugins that
> > live
> > in the GCC source tree and are shipped as part of the GCC tarball.
> >
> > The patch adds Makefile/configure machinery for handling in-tree
> > GCC
> > plugins, adapted from how we support frontends.
> >
> > Each in-tree plugin should provide a Make-plugin.in and config-
> > plugin.in,
> > analogous to the Make-lang.in and config-lang.in provided by a
> > frontend;
> > they can also supply options via a plugin.opt, analogous to a
> > frontend's
> > lang.opt.
> >
> > The patch adds a --enable-plugins=[LIST OF PLUGIN NAMES] configure
> > option,
> > analogous to --enable-languages. The default is for no such
> > plugins
> > to be
> > enabled.
> >
> > ChangeLog:
> > * configure.ac: Handle --enable-plugins.
> >
> > gcc/ChangeLog:
> > * Makefile.in (CONFIG_PLUGINS): New.
> > (SUBDIRS, subdirs): Generalize to cover plugins as well as
> > languages.
> > (plugin_opt_files): New.
> > (ALL_OPT_FILES): Add plugin_opt_files.
> > (ALL_HOST_PLUGIN_OBJS): New.
> > (ALL_HOST_OBJS): Add ALL_HOST_PLUGIN_OBJS.
> > (plugin_hooks): New.
> > (PLUGIN_MAKEFRAGS): New; include them.
> > (Makefile): Add dependency on PLUGIN_MAKEFRAGS.
> > (all.cross): Add dependency on plugin.all.cross.
> > (start.encap): Add plugin.start.encap.
> > (rest.encap): Add plugin.rest.encap.
> > (SELFTEST_TARGETS): Add selftest_plugins.
> > (info): Add dependency on lang.info.
> > (dvi): Add dependency on plugin.dvi.
> > (pdf): Add dependency on plugin.pdf.
> > (HTMLS_BUILD): Add plugin.html.
> > (man): Add plugin.man.
> > (mostlyclean): Add plugin.mostlyclean.
> > (clean): Add plugin.clean.
> > (distclean): Update for renaming of Make-hooks to Make-lang-
> > hooks;
> > add Make-plugin-hooks. Add plugin.distclean dependency.
> > (maintainer-clean): Add plugin.maintainer-clean.
> > (install-plugin): Add plugin.install-plugin.
> > (install-common): Add plugin.install-common.
> > (install-info): Add plugin.install-info.
> > (install-pdf): Add plugin.install-pdf.
> > (install-html): Add plugin.install-html.
> > (install-man): Add plugin.install-man.
> > (uninstall): Add plugin.uninstall.
> > (TAGS): Add plugin.tags.
> > * configure.ac (Make-hooks): Rename to Make-lang-hooks.
> > (plugin_opt_files): New.
> > (plugin_specs_files): New.
> > (plugin_tree_files): New.
> > (all_plugins): New.
> > (all_plugin_makefrags): New.
> > (all_selected_plugins): New.
> > (plugin_hooks): New.
> > ("Plugin hooks"): New section. Iterate through config-
> > plugin.in,
> > analogously to config-lang.in.
> > (check_plugins): New.
> > (selftest_plugins): New.
> > (Make-plugin-hooks): Emit.
> > * doc/install.texi (--enable-plugins): New option.
> So do we want to push on the concept of in-tree plugins for somethign
> like annobin? If not, given the general desire to not use plugins
> for
> teh analyzer, would we still want this?
>
> jeff
As this becomes orthogonal to the analyzer work, I've dropped this
patch from v3 of the kit, but someone else is welcome to pick this up
and run with it.
Dave
