Meson is a far more robust build framework, compared to autotools. This
greatly simplifies adding new features, since it's far easier to
maintain a set of meson.build files vs the autotools mishmash.
DEPRECATION NOTICE: Autotools based build is deprecated and will be
removed in the future.
When the x52d daemon was originally implemented, the inih library was
not bundled with any major distribution, and had to be compiled from
source everytime. However, with recent distributions (starting with
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS), this is no longer an issue, and inih is available in
the distro package manager. As a result, there is no longer a need to
vendor the inih sources with thiis repository.
However, as a result of this change, third party packaging scripts such
as those on the AUR or other similar registries that directly query the
git repository will fail unless they update the dependencies.
BREAKING CHANGE: Packaging scripts (AUR, etc.) need dependency update
The previous commit used the value of `sysconfdir` to store the location
of the daemon configuration file inside the generated documentation.
However, the automatically generated documentation was using the default
values, which meant that the config file was located at
`/usr/local/etc/x52d/x52d.conf`, instead of just `/etc/x52d/x52d.conf`.
Updating the arguments to `./configure` to match that of the release
ensures that it will always stay up to date.
This change eliminates the dependency on rsync to copy the Doxygen
generated files, and instead falls back to using `cp -R -P`. Since the
generated HTML needs no special permissions, `cp` is more than
sufficient, and it's already installed on all Unix systems as a core
utility.
Prior to this change, the user needed to install inih as a dependency,
either from the distribution repositories, or from source. On some
platforms (notably macOS), inih is not available prepackaged, and must
be installed by the user. This tends to cause needless friction.
This change imports the ini.c and ini.h files from the upstream inih
repository into the X52 source tree. This will allow us to build the
repository on any system with the original set of dependencies, and not
have to force the user to install packages themselves.
This workflow runs only if there is a change to the kernel_module path.
Consequently, commits that only impact the kernel_module will be ignored
for the standard userspace driver build.
This commit also updates the CodeQL workflow to only run on a scheduled
basis and on pull requests, but not on every push, since this is a
fairly slow script.
Finally, this commit also removes the obsolete kernel module sources,
since they are no longer maintained, and it also provides a hook for
Github actions to pick up and execute the kernel workflow.
This commit adds workflows to handle the continuous integration builds
as well as the CodeQL analysis on each push. This also adds a workflow
to create a release and upload the orig.tar.gz file when pushing a tag.
nirenjan