Re: How to compile (Linux, Debian or Ubuntu, x86-64) FOX toolkit (snapshot) with -g and -O2 [RefPerSys]

On Fri, 1 Apr 2022 20:51:23 +0200
Basile Starynkevitch <[email protected]> wrote:

>On 01/04/2022 20:28, Basile Starynkevitch wrote:
>>
>> On 01/04/2022 20:02, Basile Starynkevitch wrote:  
>>>
>>> On 01/04/2022 18:39, Jeroen van der Zijp wrote:  
>>>> On Fri, 1 Apr 2022 16:44:37 +0200
>>>> Basile Starynkevitch <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>  
>>>>> On 01/04/2022 14:08, Basile Starynkevitch wrote:  
>>>>>> Hello all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As you probably know,  on recent Linux distributions the recent GCC
>>>>>> <https://gcc.gnu.org/> or Clang <https://clang.llvm.org/> compilers
>>>>>> can be invoked with both -O2 and -g (or even -g3)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For the *RefPerSys* project (symbolic AI, open source, GPLv3+; see
>>>>>> *http://refpersys.org/* <http://refpersys.org/> and source code on
>>>>>> https://github.com/RefPerSys/RefPerSys ...) we are considering using
>>>>>> FOX toolkit, but we need DWARF debugging information for several
>>>>>> important reasons:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    * manual debugging with GDB at first.
>>>>>>    * generation (at "runtime") of C++ code compiled to some dlopen
>>>>>> <https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/dlopen.3.html>-ed plugin.
>>>>>>      The generated C++ code would depend upon some rules entered thru
>>>>>>      the FOX graphical user interface
>>>>>>    * software introspection  and runtime reflection using Ian Lance
>>>>>>      Taylor libbacktrace
>>>>>> <https://github.com/ianlancetaylor/libbacktrace> combioned with
>>>>>>      dladdr <https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/dladdr.3.html>.
>>>>>>    * Hopefully, homoiconicity
>>>>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoiconicity> of the /RefPerSys/
>>>>>>      system and rule language
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I tried several times to configure FOX source tree /fox-1.7.80/ using
>>>>>> ./configure --enable-debug CFLAGS='-O2 -g3' CXXFLAGS='-O2 -g3' but 
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> compilation of FOX did not show any -O flag.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is on Ubuntu 21.10, with g++ being GCC 11.1  
>>>>>
>>>>> It seems (I am not sure) that using make CXXFLAGS='-O2 -g3' in FOX
>>>>> toolkit source tree solved the problem.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I am unhappy of that ugly way to solve  it.  
>>>> Try configure --help to see the options.
>>>>
>>>> For optimized compile:
>>>>
>>>>     configure --enable-release --enable-native  <other options>
>>>>
>>>> The --enable-native tells GCC to generate optimal code for the host;
>>>> do NOT use this option if compiling code for 3rd parties that may have
>>>> different processor than yours. [because GCC will potentially generate
>>>> AVX2, FMA3, etc. instructions and these require late-model x86 cpus to
>>>> be able to work.
>>>>
>>>> You can also use --enable-native=<cpu target>
>>>>
>>>> for instance, --enable-native=ssse4.2
>>>>
>>>> Would tell GCC its OK to target processors capable of SSE4.2 [you 
>>>> can pass
>>>> whatever -march argument would be legal].
>>>>
>>>> Since its a GUI, -O3 will potentially lead to a lot of code-bloat and
>>>> may be only marginally faster, due to the fact that most speed will be
>>>> limited by drawing things on the screen, and these things are done
>>>> in libraries that your compile-options have not much effect on...
>>>>
>>>> So, optimization in --enable-release is set to O2.  
>>>
>>> Thanks Jeoren van der Zijp.
>>>
>>>
>>> But I absolutely need every library used by RefPerSys (see 
>>> http://refpersys.org/ and code on 
>>> https://github.com/RefPerSys/RefPerSys commit b13ac8a1c04650) to be 
>>> compiled with DWARF debugging information. I could accept 
>>> optimization to be only -Og or -O1.
>>>
>>>  (except perhaps libc and libstdc++)
>>>
>>> DWARF debugging information is required  by libbacktrace.
>>>
>>> Basically I want configure --enable-debug --enable-release
>>>
>>> With fox-1.7.79 it fails:
>>>
>>> make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/src/X11/fox-1.7.79/lib'
>>> /bin/bash ../libtool  --tag=CXX   --mode=compile g++ 
>>> -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"fox\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"fox\" 
>>> -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"1.7.79\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"fox\ 1.7.79\" 
>>> -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"[email protected]\" -DPACKAGE_URL=\"\" 
>>> -DPACKAGE=\"fox\" -DVERSION=\"1.7.79\" -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 
>>> -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 
>>> -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_STRINGS_H=1 
>>> -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 
>>> -DHAVE_DLFCN_H=1 -DLT_OBJDIR=\".libs/\" -D__EXTENSIONS__=1 
>>> -D_ALL_SOURCE=1 -D_GNU_SOURCE=1 -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS=1 
>>> -D_TANDEM_SOURCE=1 -DTIME_WITH_SYS_TIME=1 -DHAVE_SYS_WAIT_H=1 
>>> -DHAVE_DIRENT_H=1 -DHAVE_LIBRT=1 -DHAVE_LIBPTHREAD=1 -DHAVE_LIBDL=1 
>>> -DHAVE_LOCALTIME_R=1 -DHAVE_GMTIME_R=1 -DHAVE_GETPWUID_R=1 
>>> -DHAVE_GETGRGID_R=1 -DHAVE_GETPWNAM_R=1 
>>> -DHAVE_PTHREAD_SETAFFINITY_NP=1 -DHAVE_PTHREAD_GETNAME_NP=1 
>>> -DHAVE_PTHREAD_SETNAME_NP=1 -DHAVE_SCHED_GETCPU=1 
>>> -DHAVE_EPOLL_CREATE1=1 -DHAVE_TIMERFD_CREATE=1 -DHAVE_PIPE2=1 
>>> -DHAVE_STATVFS=1 -DHAVE_GETRLIMIT=1 -DHAVE_INOTIFY_INIT1=1 
>>> -DHAVE_SYS_SELECT_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_EPOLL_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TIMERFD_H=1 
>>> -DHAVE_SYS_IPC_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_SHM_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_MMAN_H=1 
>>> -DHAVE_SYS_MOUNT_H=1 -DHAVE_SEMAPHORE_H=1 -DHAVE_DLFCN_H=1 
>>> -DHAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_INOTIFY_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_RESOURCE_H=1 
>>> -DHAVE_IMMINTRIN_H=1 -DHAVE_PNG_H=1 -DHAVE_TIFF_H=1 -DHAVE_ZLIB_H=1 
>>> -DHAVE_BZLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_X11_EXTENSIONS_XSHM_H=1 
>>> -DHAVE_X11_EXTENSIONS_SHAPE_H=1 -DHAVE_X11_XCURSOR_XCURSOR_H=1 
>>> -DHAVE_X11_EXTENSIONS_XRENDER_H=1 -DHAVE_X11_EXTENSIONS_XRANDR_H=1 
>>> -DHAVE_X11_EXTENSIONS_XFIXES_H=1 -DHAVE_X11_EXTENSIONS_XINPUT2_H=1 
>>> -I. -I../include -I../include -I/usr/include/freetype2  -Wall -Wextra 
>>> -Woverloaded-virtual -Wshadow -g -DDEBUG -O2 -DNDEBUG -ffast-math 
>>> -fstrict-aliasing -finline-functions -fomit-frame-pointer 
>>> -DHAVE_JPEG_H=1 -DHAVE_PNG_H=1 -DHAVE_TIFF_H=1 -DHAVE_ZLIB_H=1 
>>> -DHAVE_BZ2LIB_H=1 -DHAVE_XSHM_H=1 -DHAVE_XSHAPE_H=1 
>>> -DHAVE_XCURSOR_H=1 -DHAVE_XRENDER_H=1 -DHAVE_XRANDR_H=1 
>>> -DHAVE_XFIXES_H=1 -DHAVE_XINPUT2_H=1 -DNO_XIM -DHAVE_XFT_H=1 
>>> -DHAVE_XFT_H=1 -DHAVE_GL_H=1 -DHAVE_GLU_H=1 -DHAVE_GLX_H=1 -MT 
>>> FXRex.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/FXRex.Tpo -c -o FXRex.lo FXRex.cpp
>>> libtool: compile:  g++ -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"fox\" 
>>> -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"fox\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"1.7.79\" 
>>> "-DPACKAGE_STRING=\"fox 1.7.79\"" 
>>> -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"[email protected]\" -DPACKAGE_URL=\"\" 
>>> -DPACKAGE=\"fox\" -DVERSION=\"1.7.79\" -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 
>>> -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 
>>> -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_STRINGS_H=1 
>>> -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 
>>> -DHAVE_DLFCN_H=1 -DLT_OBJDIR=\".libs/\" -D__EXTENSIONS__=1 
>>> -D_ALL_SOURCE=1 -D_GNU_SOURCE=1 -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS=1 
>>> -D_TANDEM_SOURCE=1 -DTIME_WITH_SYS_TIME=1 -DHAVE_SYS_WAIT_H=1 
>>> -DHAVE_DIRENT_H=1 -DHAVE_LIBRT=1 -DHAVE_LIBPTHREAD=1 -DHAVE_LIBDL=1 
>>> -DHAVE_LOCALTIME_R=1 -DHAVE_GMTIME_R=1 -DHAVE_GETPWUID_R=1 
>>> -DHAVE_GETGRGID_R=1 -DHAVE_GETPWNAM_R=1 
>>> -DHAVE_PTHREAD_SETAFFINITY_NP=1 -DHAVE_PTHREAD_GETNAME_NP=1 
>>> -DHAVE_PTHREAD_SETNAME_NP=1 -DHAVE_SCHED_GETCPU=1 
>>> -DHAVE_EPOLL_CREATE1=1 -DHAVE_TIMERFD_CREATE=1 -DHAVE_PIPE2=1 
>>> -DHAVE_STATVFS=1 -DHAVE_GETRLIMIT=1 -DHAVE_INOTIFY_INIT1=1 
>>> -DHAVE_SYS_SELECT_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_EPOLL_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TIMERFD_H=1 
>>> -DHAVE_SYS_IPC_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_SHM_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_MMAN_H=1 
>>> -DHAVE_SYS_MOUNT_H=1 -DHAVE_SEMAPHORE_H=1 -DHAVE_DLFCN_H=1 
>>> -DHAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_INOTIFY_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_RESOURCE_H=1 
>>> -DHAVE_IMMINTRIN_H=1 -DHAVE_PNG_H=1 -DHAVE_TIFF_H=1 -DHAVE_ZLIB_H=1 
>>> -DHAVE_BZLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_X11_EXTENSIONS_XSHM_H=1 
>>> -DHAVE_X11_EXTENSIONS_SHAPE_H=1 -DHAVE_X11_XCURSOR_XCURSOR_H=1 
>>> -DHAVE_X11_EXTENSIONS_XRENDER_H=1 -DHAVE_X11_EXTENSIONS_XRANDR_H=1 
>>> -DHAVE_X11_EXTENSIONS_XFIXES_H=1 -DHAVE_X11_EXTENSIONS_XINPUT2_H=1 
>>> -I. -I../include -I../include -I/usr/include/freetype2 -Wall -Wextra 
>>> -Woverloaded-virtual -Wshadow -g -DDEBUG -O2 -DNDEBUG -ffast-math 
>>> -fstrict-aliasing -finline-functions -fomit-frame-pointer 
>>> -DHAVE_JPEG_H=1 -DHAVE_PNG_H=1 -DHAVE_TIFF_H=1 -DHAVE_ZLIB_H=1 
>>> -DHAVE_BZ2LIB_H=1 -DHAVE_XSHM_H=1 -DHAVE_XSHAPE_H=1 
>>> -DHAVE_XCURSOR_H=1 -DHAVE_XRENDER_H=1 -DHAVE_XRANDR_H=1 
>>> -DHAVE_XFIXES_H=1 -DHAVE_XINPUT2_H=1 -DNO_XIM -DHAVE_XFT_H=1 
>>> -DHAVE_XFT_H=1 -DHAVE_GL_H=1 -DHAVE_GLU_H=1 -DHAVE_GLX_H=1 -MT 
>>> FXRex.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/FXRex.Tpo -c FXRex.cpp  -fPIC -DPIC -o 
>>> .libs/FXRex.o
>>> FXRex.cpp:4676:10: fatal error: fxrexdbg.h: No such file or directory
>>>  4676 | #include "fxrexdbg.h"
>>>       |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~
>>> compilation terminated.
>>> make[2]: *** [Makefile:1466: FXRex.lo] Error 1
>>> make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/X11/fox-1.7.79/lib'
>>> make[1]: *** [Makefile:993: all] Error 2
>>> make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/X11/fox-1.7.79/lib'
>>> make: *** [Makefile:496: all-recursive] Error 1
>>>  
>>
>> Etienne  Mollier suggested to edit the configure.ac file of FOX and 
>> put there  near line 57 CXXFLAGS="-O -g"
>>
>>
>> Then I run  autoconf  (version is 2.69) and then I run ./configure 
>> --enable-debug --enable-release, but make fails:
>>
>> rimski.x86_64 src/X11/fox-1.7.79 20:27 .0 % make
>> CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && /bin/bash 
>> /usr/src/X11/fox-1.7.79/missing aclocal-1.15
>> /usr/src/X11/fox-1.7.79/missing: line 81: aclocal-1.15: command not found
>> WARNING: 'aclocal-1.15' is missing on your system.
>>          You should only need it if you modified 'acinclude.m4' or
>>          'configure.ac' or m4 files included by 'configure.ac'.
>>          The 'aclocal' program is part of the GNU Automake package:
>>          <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake>
>>          It also requires GNU Autoconf, GNU m4 and Perl in order to run:
>>          <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf>
>>          <http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/>
>>          <http://www.perl.org/>
>> make: *** [Makefile:415: aclocal.m4] Error 127
>>
>>  
>
>
>
>Event after running  autoreconf  (the -ri faile for autoreconf 2.69 of 
>Ubuntu 21.1) then  ./configure --enable-debug --enable-native  
>--sysconfdir=/etc/local/ CXXFLAGS='-O -g'
>
>(and I also tried double quotes: CXXFLAGS='-O -g' ...) the same error:
>
>libtool: compile:  g++ -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"fox\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"fox\" 
>-DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"1.7.79\" "-DPACKAGE_STRING=\"fox 1.7.79\"" 
>-DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"[email protected]\" -DPACKAGE_URL=\"\" 
>-DPACKAGE=\"fox\" -DVERSION=\"1.7.79\" -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 
>-DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 
>-DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_STRINGS_H=1 
>-DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_DLFCN_H=1 
>-DLT_OBJDIR=\".libs/\" -D__EXTENSIONS__=1 -D_ALL_SOURCE=1 
>-D_GNU_SOURCE=1 -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS=1 -D_TANDEM_SOURCE=1 
>-DTIME_WITH_SYS_TIME=1 -DHAVE_SYS_WAIT_H=1 -DHAVE_DIRENT_H=1 
>-DHAVE_LIBRT=1 -DHAVE_LIBPTHREAD=1 -DHAVE_LIBDL=1 -DHAVE_LOCALTIME_R=1 
>-DHAVE_GMTIME_R=1 -DHAVE_GETPWUID_R=1 -DHAVE_GETGRGID_R=1 
>-DHAVE_GETPWNAM_R=1 -DHAVE_PTHREAD_SETAFFINITY_NP=1 
>-DHAVE_PTHREAD_GETNAME_NP=1 -DHAVE_PTHREAD_SETNAME_NP=1 
>-DHAVE_SCHED_GETCPU=1 -DHAVE_EPOLL_CREATE1=1 -DHAVE_TIMERFD_CREATE=1 
>-DHAVE_PIPE2=1 -DHAVE_STATVFS=1 -DHAVE_GETRLIMIT=1 
>-DHAVE_INOTIFY_INIT1=1 -DHAVE_SYS_SELECT_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_EPOLL_H=1 
>-DHAVE_SYS_TIMERFD_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_IPC_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_SHM_H=1 
>-DHAVE_SYS_MMAN_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_MOUNT_H=1 -DHAVE_SEMAPHORE_H=1 
>-DHAVE_DLFCN_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_INOTIFY_H=1 
>-DHAVE_SYS_RESOURCE_H=1 -DHAVE_IMMINTRIN_H=1 -DHAVE_PNG_H=1 
>-DHAVE_TIFF_H=1 -DHAVE_ZLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_BZLIB_H=1 
>-DHAVE_X11_EXTENSIONS_XSHM_H=1 -DHAVE_X11_EXTENSIONS_SHAPE_H=1 
>-DHAVE_X11_XCURSOR_XCURSOR_H=1 -DHAVE_X11_EXTENSIONS_XRENDER_H=1 
>-DHAVE_X11_EXTENSIONS_XRANDR_H=1 -DHAVE_X11_EXTENSIONS_XFIXES_H=1 
>-DHAVE_X11_EXTENSIONS_XINPUT2_H=1 -I. -I../include -I../include 
>-I/usr/include/freetype2 -g -O -Wall -Wextra -Woverloaded-virtual 
>-Wshadow -g -DDEBUG -march=native -DHAVE_JPEG_H=1 -DHAVE_PNG_H=1 
>-DHAVE_TIFF_H=1 -DHAVE_ZLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_BZ2LIB_H=1 -DHAVE_XSHM_H=1 
>-DHAVE_XSHAPE_H=1 -DHAVE_XCURSOR_H=1 -DHAVE_XRENDER_H=1 
>-DHAVE_XRANDR_H=1 -DHAVE_XFIXES_H=1 -DHAVE_XINPUT2_H=1 -DNO_XIM 
>-DHAVE_XFT_H=1 -DHAVE_XFT_H=1 -DHAVE_GL_H=1 -DHAVE_GLU_H=1 
>-DHAVE_GLX_H=1 -MT FXRex.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/FXRex.Tpo -c FXRex.cpp  
>-fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/FXRex.o
>FXRex.cpp:4676:10: fatal error: fxrexdbg.h: No such file or directory


Please comment out the line in FXRex.cpp like so:

//#define TOPIC_REXDUMP   1014          // Debugging regex code

It is intended for my own debugging code which is not needed by
anyone else.

		-- JVZ


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