genode/repos/libports
Norman Feske 556a5c8086 libc: clean up 'clock_gettime' handling
This patch untangles the dependency of VFS operations that need RTC
information from the 'clock_gettime' libc function that must never be
called from the libc kernel context.

- The 'Rtc' class uses the VFS directly for reading the rtc file instead
  of relying on libc functions.

- The 'Rtc' instance has become part of the 'Kernel' instead of
  being construced as a side effect of the first call of
  'clock_gettime'.

- Changed 'Rtc::read' to return a timespec value, which has a higher
  precision than the formerly used time_t value.

- The 'Rtc::read' returns a value with the relative 'current_time'
  already applied. The former handling of subsequent rtc-value
  updates has been rewritten to become more logical.

- The 'Vfs_plugin' no longer calls 'clock_gettime' but the new
  kernel-level 'Current_real_time' interface.

Issue #2635
2020-08-25 11:50:10 +02:00
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doc tool: remove deprecated 'make prepare' mechanism 2016-03-17 17:02:04 +01:00
include qt5_component: support arguments and environment from config 2020-08-25 11:50:09 +02:00
lib Move atexit handling from base lib to libc 2020-08-25 11:50:09 +02:00
ports Move atexit handling from base lib to libc 2020-08-25 11:50:09 +02:00
recipes Move atexit handling from base lib to libc 2020-08-25 11:50:09 +02:00
run Move drivers/input/spec/ps2 to drivers/ps2 2020-08-25 11:50:09 +02:00
src libc: clean up 'clock_gettime' handling 2020-08-25 11:50:10 +02:00
README README update 2016-08-30 17:24:00 +02:00

This directory contains ports of popular 3rd-party software to Genode.


Usage
-----

The tool './tool/ports/prepare_port' in the toplevel directory automates the
task of downloading and preparing the library source codes. You can select
individual packages that have to be prepared by specifying their base names
(without the version number) as command-line argument. For example, the
following command prepares both the C library and the Freetype library:
! ./tool/ports/prepare_port libc freetype

To compile and link against 3rd-party libraries of the 'libports' repository,
you have to include the repository into the build process by appending it to the
'REPOSITORIES' declaration of your '<build-dir>/etc/build.conf' file.


Under the hood
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For each library, there is a file contained in the 'libports/ports/'
subdirectory. The file is named after the library and contains the
library-specific rules for downloading the source code and installing header
files.


How does 'libports' relate to the other repositories?
-----------------------------------------------------

Most libraries hosted in the 'libports' repository expect a complete C library,
which is provided with the 'libc' package. Please do not forget to prepare the
libc package when using any of the other libports packages. The libc, in turn,
depends on the 'os' repository for its back end. Because the 'os' repository is
the home of the dynamic linker, libraries contained in 'libports' are safe to
assume the presence of the dynamic linker and, thus, should be built as shared
libraries.