Optionally traverse srcs and deps for run-time dependencies#3466
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There are circumstances under which a target might want to inherit the run-time dependencies of certain build-time dependencies, because the target's output is built in such a way that its dependencies don't have their own run-time dependencies resolved. An example of this is the shell-rules plugin's `sh_binary` rule: a `sh_binary` is a zip file of its dependencies (`deps`) concatenated onto a shell script preamble that extracts those dependencies into a temporary directory during initialisation. If one of those `deps` happens to have its own run-time dependencies, Please will not resolve them, and they will therefore not be built before the target runs (and will not be sent to the remote worker along with the target's output). Add two parameters to `build_rule` - `runtime_deps_from_srcs` and `runtime_deps_from_deps` - that indicate to Please that run-time dependencies should additionally be collected from the target's `srcs` and `deps` respectively. This allows build definitions to inherit the run-time dependencies of their sources and/or build-time dependencies if they know they will be needed when running the target they generate.
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Rebased to fix the FreeBSD Cirrus CI job (#3467). |
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Is it worth putting this loop inside a conditional on t.RuntimeDependenciesFromSources || t.RuntimeDependenciesFromDependencies? Or is this just not run enough for it to matter?
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It's a good point - that iteration over t.dependencies is entirely unnecessary for most targets. I'll gate it.
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There are circumstances under which a target might want to inherit the run-time dependencies of certain build-time dependencies, because the target's output is built in such a way that its dependencies don't have their own run-time dependencies resolved. An example of this is the shell-rules plugin's
sh_binaryrule: ash_binaryis a zip file of its dependencies (deps) concatenated onto a shell script preamble that extracts those dependencies into a temporary directory during initialisation. If one of thosedepshappens to have its own run-time dependencies, Please will not resolve them, and they will therefore not be built before the target runs (and will not be sent to the remote worker along with the target's output).Add two parameters to
build_rule-runtime_deps_from_srcsandruntime_deps_from_deps- that indicate to Please that run-time dependencies should additionally be collected from the target'ssrcsanddepsrespectively. This allows build definitions to inherit the run-time dependencies of their sources and/or build-time dependencies if they know they will be needed when running the target they generate.