This makes the build tree more organized, which is good for adding new
stuff. Now, it's useful for example for adding manual pages in man3/,
but it may be useful in the future for example for extending the build
system to run linters (e.g., clang-tidy(1), Clang analyzer, ...) on the
C source code.
Previously, the build tree was quite flat, and looked like this (after
`./configure && make`):
$ tree -I src build
build
├── Makefile
├── autoconf.data
├── autoconf.err
├── echo
├── libnxt.a
├── nxt_auto_config.h
├── nxt_version.h
├── unitd
└── unitd.8
1 directory, 9 files
And after this patch, it looks like this:
$ tree -I src build
build
├── Makefile
├── autoconf.data
├── autoconf.err
├── bin
│ └── echo
├── include
│ ├── nxt_auto_config.h
│ └── nxt_version.h
├── lib
│ ├── libnxt.a
│ └── unit
│ └── modules
├── sbin
│ └── unitd
├── share
│ └── man
│ └── man8
│ └── unitd.8
└── var
├── lib
│ └── unit
├── log
│ └── unit
└── run
└── unit
17 directories, 9 files
It also solves one issue introduced in
5a37171f73 ("Added default values for pathnames."). Before that
commit, it was possible to run unitd from the build system
(`./build/unitd`). Now, since it expects files in a very specific
location, that has been broken. By having a directory structure that
mirrors the installation, it's possible to trick it to believe it's
installed, and run it from there:
$ ./configure --prefix=./build
$ make
$ ./build/sbin/unitd
Fixes: 5a37171f73 ("Added default values for pathnames.")
Reported-by: Liam Crilly <liam@nginx.com>
Reviewed-by: Konstantin Pavlov <thresh@nginx.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Clayton <a.clayton@nginx.com>
Cc: Andrei Zeliankou <zelenkov@nginx.com>
Cc: Zhidao Hong <z.hong@f5.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@nginx.com>
While here, default debhelper compat level bumped to 11 (this is the
version installed out of the box on Ubuntu 18.04 "bionic" which is
the oldest one from supported distros).
Changes introduced in a27532e3a17b effectively broke building of the unit
package due to missed dh_installsystemd script in older debhelper 9.x.
Once Ubuntu 16.04 reach EOL, the following actions should be made:
- this commit should be reverted;
- minimal debhelper version should be increased to 11.
