Quite often when we generate objects some fields should only be
generated in some conditions. Let's add high-level support for that.
Matching the existing JSON_BUILD_PAIR() this adds
JSON_BUILD_PAIR_CONDITIONAL() which is very similar, but takes an
additional parameter: a boolean condition. If "true" this acts like
JSON_BUILD_PAIR(), but if false then the whole pair is suppressed.
This sounds simply, but requires a tiny bit of complexity: when complex
sub-variants are used in fields, then we also need to suppress them.
This doesn't have much effect on the final build, because we link libbasic.a
into libsystemd-shared.so, so in the end, all the object built from basic/
end up in libsystemd-shared. And when the static library is linked into binaries,
any objects that are included in it but are not used are trimmed. Hence, the
size of output artifacts doesn't change:
$ du -sb /var/tmp/inst*
54181861 /var/tmp/inst1 (old)
54207441 /var/tmp/inst1s (old split-usr)
54182477 /var/tmp/inst2 (new)
54208041 /var/tmp/inst2s (new split-usr)
(The negligible change in size is because libsystemd-shared.so is bigger
by a few hundred bytes. I guess it's because symbols are named differently
or something like that.)
The effect is on the build process, in particular partial builds. This change
effectively moves the requirements on some build steps toward the leaves of the
dependency tree. Two effects:
- when building items that do not depend on libsystemd-shared, we
build less stuff for libbasic.a (which wouldn't be used anyway,
so it's a net win).
- when building items that do depend on libshared, we reduce libbasic.a as a
synchronization point, possibly allowing better parallelism.
Method:
1. copy list of .h files from src/basic/meson.build to /tmp/basic
2. $ for i in $(grep '.h$' /tmp/basic); do echo $i; git --no-pager grep "include \"$i\"" src/basic/ 'src/lib*' 'src/nss-*' 'src/journal/sd-journal.c' |grep -v "${i%.h}.c";echo ;done | less
This makes working with complexly structured documents easy
and more reliable as the parser is not susceptible to
element re-ordering.
Also fixes a bug when the tokenizer would choke after reading
a number.
This patch removes includes that are not used. The removals were found with
include-what-you-use which checks if any of the symbols from a header is
in use.
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek