What is the best practice for installing external dependencies in a Coq project? - coq

I understand what I believe is the essence of the official utilties doc https://coq.inria.fr/refman/practical-tools/utilities.html#building-a-coq-project:
one creates a _CoqProject with arguments to coqc and the file names to compile (hopefully in an order that takes into account dependencies)
then one make an automatic CoqMakefile with coq_makefile -f _CoqProject -o CoqMakefile
Then you use their recommended Makefile to run the automatically generated make file.
But then if we need other dependencies, it doesn't say how to install them (or uninstall) them. What is the standard way to do that?
My guess is that one likely adds a target to your Makefile at the end of it and do some sort of opam install?
e.g.
# KNOWNTARGETS will not be passed along to CoqMakefile
KNOWNTARGETS := CoqMakefile
# KNOWNFILES will not get implicit targets from the final rule, and so
# depending on them won't invoke the submake. TODO: Not sure what this means
# Warning: These files get declared as PHONY, so any targets depending
# on them always get rebuilt -- or better said, any rules which those names will have their cmds be re-ran (which is
# usually rebuilding functions since that is what make files are for)
KNOWNFILES := Makefile _CoqProject
# Runs invoke-coqmakefile rule if you do run make by itself. Sets the default goal to be used if no targets were specified on the command line.
.DEFAULT_GOAL := invoke-coqmakefile
# Depends on two files to run this, itself and our _CoqProject
CoqMakefile: Makefile _CoqProject
$(COQBIN)coq_makefile -f _CoqProject -o CoqMakefile
# Note make knows what is the make file in this case thanks to -f CoqMakefile
invoke-coqmakefile: CoqMakefile install_external_dependencies
$(MAKE) --no-print-directory -f CoqMakefile $(filter-out $(KNOWNTARGETS),$(MAKECMDGOALS))
#
.PHONY: invoke-coqmakefile $(KNOWNFILES)
####################################################################
## Your targets here ##
####################################################################
# This should be the last rule, to handle any targets not declared above
%: invoke-coqmakefile
#true
# I know this is not a good coq dependency example but just to make it concrete wrote some opam command
install_external_dependencies:
opam install coq-serapi
I think I wrote the install_external_dependencies in the right place but I'm not sure. Is that correct? Anyone has a real example?
For all the code see: https://github.com/brando90/ultimate-utils/tree/master/tutorials_for_myself/my_makefile_playground/beginner_coq_project_with_makefiles/debug_proj
related: question on official tutorial for building coq projects https://coq.discourse.group/t/official-place-to-learn-how-to-setup-coq-make-files-for-beginner/1682
Btw,
I don't understand the last like in the makefile yet.
# This should be the last rule, to handle any targets not declared above
%: invoke-coqmakefile
#true
i.e.
%true in the make file template coq gave us.
% in the name of the rule.
What does that line do?
Update
I'm seeking an end-to-end small demo of how to install all dependencies with whatever the recommended approach when using _CoqProject and coq_makefile as shown in the utilities doc https://coq.inria.fr/refman/practical-tools/utilities.html. The ideal answer would contain a single script to install and compile everything in one go -- say in a install_project_name.sh. Including opam switches etc.
Related:
How does one install a new version of Coq when it cannot find the repositories in a new Mac M1 machine?
Installing packages for Coq using OPAM
https://coq.discourse.group/t/official-place-to-learn-how-to-setup-coq-make-files-for-beginner/1682

The simplest setup is to install external dependencies manually with opam.
opam install packages-needed-by-my-project
Then they will be immediately available to build your own project.
The next level of organization is to package up your project. Refer to the following Coq community resources:
Coq community templates
Recommended Project Structure
The main thing immediately relevant to your question is to have a *.opam file at the root of your project which lists its dependencies (possibly with version requirements). Then you can install them using opam install . --deps-only.
The Makefile part of your question is about a bit of overengineering for passing options seamlessly to CoqMakefile. I'm not sure how it works off-hand, but it's not important anyway, especially because Dune is superseding make as the recommended build system for Coq project.

Related

How does one automatically make a `COQ_PROJ.opam` install script automatically from a Coq Project/Package?

I have a very long list of coq projects I want to automatically install with opam pin/install. I'd like to install them with opam because I am using this python tool (PyCoq) that uses opam pin/install. How can I automatically create a COQ_PROJ.opam / *.opam file given a coq project that I can install with make?
For example, a format of a coq project/package (proj/pkg) that works for me is this: https://github.com/IBM/pycoq/tree/main/pycoq/test/lf
An idea is that in pip one can easily create a pip requirements file from a python project that is already installed (Automatically create requirements.txt). Thus, one possible solution could be:
install the coq project with make (or it's instructions)
run the equivalent of pip freeze > requirements.txt but for coq.
How does one do that?
sample list of coq projs:
[
{
"project_name": "constructive-geometry",
"train_files": [
"problems.v",
"affinity.v",
"basis.v",
"orthogonality.v",
"part1.v",
"part3.v",
"part2.v"
],
"test_files": [],
"switch": "coq-8.10"
},
{
"project_name": "higman-s",
"train_files": [
"inductive_wqo.v",
"higman_aux.v",
"higman.v",
"list_embeding.v",
"tree.v"
],
"test_files": [],
"switch": "coq-8.10"
},
{
"project_name": "int-map",
"train_files": [
"Mapcanon.v",
"Mapc.v",
"Mapaxioms.v",
"Map.v",
"Adalloc.v",
"Fset.v",
"Mapsubset.v",
"Mapfold.v",
"Maplists.v",
"Lsort.v",
"Mapcard.v",
"Allmaps.v",
"FMapIntMap.v",
"Mapiter.v"
],
...
I do know about opam switch export/import/create but I doubt it works due to this reason:
I think opam switch export assumes that everything I've installed so far was already available in your opam switch already: Save the current switch state to a file.. Thus I think it assumes that you've installed everything so far with opam which is not always true for every coq project afaik and if it were I wouldn't have this issue in the first place -- since I would have used opam pin/install in the first place to install the coq proj/pkg. I think some coq projects/packages use a coq_makefile -f _CoqProject -o CoqMakefile followed by a make command (ref: https://coq.inria.fr/refman/practical-tools/utilities.html#building-a-coq-project, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72586352/what-is-the-best-practice-for-installing-external-dependencies-in-a-coq-project). Those that use make are my target. I know make can run arbitrary code but I am hoping there is a standard way to install things in coq that will help me connect it with opam...or python...
though I could try running make and then opam switch export though I don't know how opam would know how make compiled and got dependencies if make uses only coqc or something else that doesn't install it to opam...any ideas?
Perhaps useful self contained coq proj/pkg: https://github.com/brando90/pycoq/tree/main/debug_proj though it uses no external dependencies for now :(, help extending it for even the simplest depedency for the sake of example is welcomed!
references:
proverbot's discussion: https://github.com/UCSD-PL/proverbot9001/issues/27
question/discussion in the original coq-gym repo: https://github.com/princeton-vl/CoqGym/discussions/77
coq projects: https://github.com/UCSD-PL/proverbot9001/tree/master/coq-projects
useful reference for install coq projs: What is the best practice for installing external dependencies in a Coq project?
gitissue in my PyCoq fork: https://github.com/brando90/pycoq/issues/4
https://coq.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/252087-Machine-learning-and-automation/topic/Installation.20of.20a.20diverse.20set.20of.20Coq.20package.20for.20ML/near/294876190

how to make bitbake print options of do_configure

I'm having trouble cross compiling Qt5 for beaglebone using openembedded with bitbake. I think in step do_configure not everything is passed from my *.bbappend and no platform plugins are installed (I need 'linuxfb').
My question will be: how to make bitbake print list of arguments it passes to ./configure?
There's a few ways to get that info, I would suggest looking in the recipe work directory:
temp/log.do_configure contains the configure task log which should list exact ./configure-command
build/ contains the projects own build system artefacts
bitbake -e <recipe> | grep <VARIABLE> is very useful if you want to know what variable values end up as (check e.g. PACKAGECONFIG and PACKAGECONFIG_CONFARGS values if you're modifying packageconfig).

cpanspec option --filter-requires fails to remove :MODULE_COMPAT

I would like to make a rpm which can install on RHEL5,6 and 7.
[p4474668#rhel7dev source]$ cpanspec webmin-ajax-0.00.tar.gz -d '' --force --filter-requires 'perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.16.3)' -b
(... lots of infos here ...)
[p4474668#rhel7dev source]$ rpm -qpR noarch/perl-webmin-ajax-0.00-1.noarch.rpm
perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.16.3)
perl(DST::System)
perl(WebminCore)
perl(lib)
perl(strict)
perl(warnings)
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
rpmlib(FileDigests) <= 4.6.0-1useless
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
rpmlib(PayloadIsXz) <= 5.2-1
Since the dependancy is not removed, it cannot be installed on a RHEL5.
How to remove the perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.16.3) not required dependency?
This feature is under-documented, and doesn't (IMHO) do all of what its name implies.
What it does is:
along with the .spec file it creates a filter script file (some sed in a .sh script), this is referenced in the .spec file and is required during rpmbuild. The dependencies written to the .spec file are not affected by filtering.
that sed filter script is rewritten by sed during rpmbuild to invoke the correct perl.req.
the filter script is applied only to the output of perl.req (which is normally only invoked by find-requires)
(As far as I can tell, perl.req predates explicitly listed dependencies in Makefile.PL and/or the META files. What it does is look for likely use and require directives in perl code with some logic and regex's, the implementation of which is exactly as attractive as you'd expect).
To be honest I'm not entirely sure in what circumstances perl.req and find-requires are or are not invoked (cursory testing by setting AutoReq didn't have an effect for me), but cpanspec reads and processes META.yml directly if found in any case. The only other dependency-related functionality is (rudimentary) processing of Makefile.PL to extract modules references in PREREQ_PM and add those as BuildRequires
Normally you can patch up your .spec file to add something like
%filter_from_requires /XSLoader/d
%filter_setup
However, :MODULE_COMPAT_xxx is a special-case dependency in cpanspec, you can turn it off with the -o option to create "compatible" RPMs that work on older systems. This has other effects too, so it might be less problematic to build in discrete steps so that you can tweak the build:
cpanspec [...] yourmodule
sed -i'.bak' '/^Requires.*:MODULE_COMPAT.*/d' yourmodule.spec
rpmbuild -ba yourmodule.spec
(especially since cpanspec warns that -b is not guaranteed to work always).
Of course the final package may not work as expected, cpanspec is being cautious, but there might be a real API requirement for this constraint (in your case the "noarch" build may limit the scope for problems, I think). The rule of thumb is that API/ABI's try to be backward compatible, not forward compatible (a related problem occurs if you try to build binaries to work with a glibc older than the one you compile against).
You may have better luck building on a CentOS 5 system (or investigate Mock for a more complete solution).

Coq: manage LoadPath in project with subdirectories

I have a Coq project with its libraries organised into subdirectories, something like:
…/MyProj/Auxiliary/Aux.v
…/MyProj/Main/Main.v (imports Auxiliary/Aux.v)
When I compile the files, I expect to do so from working directory MyProj (via a makefile). But I also want to work on the files using Proof General/Coqtop, in which case the working directory is by default the directory in which the file lives.
But this means that the LoadPath is different between the two contexts, and so the logical path needed for the library import is different. How do I set up the coqc invocation, the LoadPath, and the import declarations so that they work in both contexts?
Each approach I have tried, something goes wrong. For instance, if I compile Aux.v by invoking
coqc -R "." "MyProj" Auxiliary/Aux.v
and import it in Main.v as
Require Import MyProj.Auxiliary.Aux.
then this works when I compile Main.v with
coqc -R "." "MyProj" Main/Main.v
but fails in Coqtop, with Error: Cannot find library MyProj.Auxiliary.Aux in loadpath. On the other hand, if before the Require Import I add
Add LoadPath ".." as MyProj.
then this works in Coqtop, but fails under coqc -R "." "MyProj" Main/Main.v, with
Error: The file […]/MyProj/Auxiliary/Aux.vo contains library
MyProj.Auxiliary.Aux and not library MyProj.MyProj.Auxiliary.Aux
I’m looking for a solution that’s robust for a library that’s shared with collaborators (and hopefully eventually with users), so in particular it can’t use absolute file paths. The best I have found for now is to add emacs local variables to set the LoadPath up when Proof General invokes Coqtop:
((coq-mode . ((coq-prog-args . ("-R" ".." "MyProj" "-emacs")))))
but this (a) seems a little hacky, and (b) only works for Proof General, not in Coqide or plain Coqtop. Is there a better solution?
Allow me to side-step your question by suggesting an alternative process, hinted at by Tiago.
Assuming that your project's tree looks like this:
MyProj/Auxiliary/Aux.v
MyProj/Main/Main.v
In MyProj, write a _CoqProject file listing all your Coq files
-R . ProjectName
Auxiliary/Aux.v
Main/Main.v
When you open one of these Coq files, emacs will look for the _CoqProject and do-the-right-thing (tm).
As shown by Tiago, coq_makefile will also give you a Makefile for free.
I know you explicitly asked for something that works across different platforms, but there's already a Proof-General-specific solution that is less hacky than the one you have. Proof General has a special variable called coq-load-path that you can set with local variables, much like you did for coq-prog-args. The advantage is that you don't have to worry about any other arguments that need to be passed to coqtop (such as -emacs in your example). Thus, your .dir-locals.el file could have a line like this:
((coq-mode . ((coq-load-path . ((".." "MyProj"))))))
Unfortunately, I am not aware of anything that works across platforms, although I'm pretty sure that something specific for CoqIDE must exist. If this is the case, maybe you could set up a script to keep these configuration files updated across different platforms?
If you use coq_makefile you can install the library in your system.
Without OPAM
To initialize your project:
coq_makefile -f _CoqProject -o Makefile
Share your library with other projects:
make install
With OPAM
Assuming you have OPAM installed, you can use coq-shell to help you take care of dependencies.
To setup your project:
coq_shell_url="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gares/opam-coq-shell/master/src/opam-coq"
curl -s "${coq_shell_url}" | bash /dev/stdin init 8.4 # Install Coq and its dependencies
eval `opam config env --switch=coq-shell-8.4` # Setup the environment
coq_makefile -f _CoqProject -o Makefile # Generates the makefile
opam pin add coq:YOURLIBRARY . # Add your library to OPAM
When you update your library you should do:
opam upgrade coq:YOURLIBRARY
Here is an example of a project that uses the OPAM method:
https://bitbucket.org/cogumbreiro/aniceto-coq/src

Solaris package upgrade

I'm having a lot of trouble wrapping my head around how Solaris 11 does packaging. I understand that there is a yum type packaging approach, but I would expect there to be a rpm -i and rpm -U approach that allows a package to be delivered and then installed or upgrade.
For now I have tracked down how to make a package, ie pkgmk and pkgtrans. Given this I can create a "foo_1.0.pkg" file that can be installed like this:
pkgadd -d foo_1.0.pkg
However I can not figure out how to upgrade this package with "foo_2.0.pkg":
root#hostname # pkgadd -d foo_2.0.pkg
The following packages are available:
1 foo foo
(x86) private_build
Select package(s) you wish to process (or 'all' to process
all packages). (default: all) [?,??,q]: all
Processing package instance <foo> from </root/foo_2.0.pkg>
foo(x86) private_build
Current administration requires that a unique instance of the <foo>
package be created. However, the maximum number of instances of the
package which may be supported at one time on the same system has
already been met.
No changes were made to the system.
What am I doing wrong? It would appear that i should use pkg update, but this seems to imply that I need to release my pkg in a repo.
First, you aren't using Solaris 11 packaging (IPS) but the legacy SVR4 packaging.
With the latter, you cannot upgrade a custom package. The only way is then simply to remove the old package and install the newer one, which is what rpm -U is doing under the hood anyway.
pkgrm foo
pkgadd -d foo_2.0.pkg foo
I had the same problem, but I was able to workaround it by passing a config file into the cmd. This is especially useful in a script when used with the "echo |" as it bypasses the confirmation prompt as well. The config file overwrites the default install properties which are located in a file here: /var/sadm/install/admin/default. The key is the instance=overwrite line. I changed some of the others as well, to avoid any other prompts that may come up. As an alternate solution you can change the default file directly and not have to reference the additional config file.
with myprog1.0 (or 2.0) already installed run the following command.
echo | pkgadd -a /opt/myprog/install.conf -d myprog2.0
contents of /opt/myprog/install.conf file:
mail=
instance=overwrite
partial=nocheck
runlevel=nocheck
idepend=nocheck
rdepend=nocheck
space=ask
setuid=ask
conflict=nocheck
action=nocheck
networktimeout=60
networkretries=3
authentication=quit
keystore=/var/sadm/security
proxy=
$UPDATE
This variable does not exist under most installation environments. If it does exist (with the value yes), it means that a PKG with the same name, version and architecture is already installed on the system or that the installing PKG will overwrite an installed PKG. The original BASEDIR is then used.
So, this variable you can use in preinstall or postinstall script for any updation.