New build system update

[Gedare Bloom]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 6:14 AM Sebastian Huber
<sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> as a follow up of the issues mentioned here
>
> https://lists.rtems.org/pipermail/devel/2020-April/059472.html
>
> I modified the build system specification to remove the use of
> Doorstop-specific features. This includes the following attributes:
>
> * active
> * derived
> * header
> * level
> * normative
> * ref
> * reviewed
>
> Sometimes also the "text" attribute.
>
> I changed how links are specified. Links are now an ordered list as
> specified by the specification item editor. Each list element is a
> dictionary with two required keys: "uid" and "role". For the build
> system, the role is "build-dependency". The UID can be absolute or
> relative. Items are stored with their absolute UID in a dictionary.
> Relative links are converted to absolute UIDs using the Python os.path
> module functions. With relative UIDs it is easy to write localized
> specification items:
>
> https://git.rtems.org/sebh/rtems.git/tree/spec/build/bsps/sparc/leon3/grp.yml?h=build
>
> Since links remain now in the order specified by the item editor, I was
> able to remove the "order" attribute and also the "top-level" group
> attribute.
>
> A Doorstop installation is no longer required. The build specification
> can be maintained with a text editor. It could be useful to add a "./waf
> verify-spec" command to verify that the build specification items are sane.
>
I suggest opening a ticket for verify-spec at 6.1 or open-ended. It is
a good idea.

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