From: <Randy.MacLeod@windriver.com>
To: <openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Cc: <alex.kanavin@gmail.com>, <Liezhi.Yang@windriver.com>,
<peter.kjellerstedt@axis.com>, <ross.burton@arm.com>,
<skandigraun@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v6] gawk: disable persistent memory allocator due to licensing
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2025 16:46:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251007204613.329420-1-Randy.MacLeod@windriver.com> (raw)
From: Randy MacLeod <Randy.MacLeod@windriver.com>
In gawk-5.2, a feature that allows gawk to preserve memory between runs:
https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Persistent-Memory.html
was added. The files that implement this, support/pma.[ch], are licensed
under the AGPL3 which some entities perfer to avoid. Force people to knowingly
opt into using this feature and license using:
PACKAGECONFIG:append:pn-gawk = " pma-if-64bit"
where pma is an abbreviation for persistent memory allocator and the
"-if-64bit" suffix is a indicator to users that the feature only works
for 64 bit targets. Also add AGPL to LICENSE and LICENSE:${PN}, when using pma.
Correct the license to be AGPL-3.0-or-later. There hasn't been a change in
the license terms, at least for main.c, haven't changed significantly in
the last 15 years:
License-Update: Reflects conditional AGPL use and more as described above.
Testing requires a non-root account and following the example in the link above:
$ truncate -s <size> data.pma
$ chmod 0600 data.pma
$ GAWK_PERSIST_FILE=data.pma gawk 'BEGIN { print ++i }'
1
$ GAWK_PERSIST_FILE=data.pma gawk 'BEGIN { print ++i }'
2
$ GAWK_PERSIST_FILE=data.pma gawk 'BEGIN { print ++i }'
3
This works on qemu[x86-|arm|riscv]64 but not on qemu[arm|x86] where the
--enable-pma is ignored because there is a requirement and build-time test
for 8 byte void pointers in m4/pma.m4:
if test "$SKIP_PERSIST_MALLOC" = no && test $ac_cv_sizeof_void_p -eq 8
Finally, remove an old comment about GPLv2, GPLv3 versions of gawk
since this is no longer important as the GPLv2 version is not maintained.
Signed-off-by: Randy MacLeod <Randy.MacLeod@windriver.com>
---
meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.3.2.bb | 15 +++++++++++----
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.3.2.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.3.2.bb
index 833fe78bf9..0448d90ba7 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.3.2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.3.2.bb
@@ -6,14 +6,21 @@ HOMEPAGE = "https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/"
BUGTRACKER = "bug-gawk@gnu.org"
SECTION = "console/utils"
-# gawk <= 3.1.5: GPL-2.0-only
-# gawk >= 3.1.6: GPL-3.0-only
-LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-or-later & AGPL-3.0-or-later"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504 \
+ file://support/pma.c;md5=bb0026ee5e8b950e67d670dd2d60cc93;beginline=8;endline=19 \
+ file://support/pma.h;md5=bb0026ee5e8b950e67d670dd2d60cc93;beginline=8;endline=19"
+
+LICENSE:${PN} = "GPL-3.0-or-later"
+LICENSE:${PN}:append = " ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'pma-if-64bit', ' & AGPL-3.0-or-later', '', d)}"
PACKAGECONFIG ??= "readline mpfr"
PACKAGECONFIG[readline] = "--with-readline,--without-readline,readline"
PACKAGECONFIG[mpfr] = "--with-mpfr,--without-mpfr, mpfr"
+# pma: persistent memory allocator:
+# Disabled by default due to AGPL license.
+# Note that PMA works only for 64-bit targets and is automatically disabled at configure time otherwise.
+PACKAGECONFIG[pma-if-64bit] = "--enable-pma,--disable-pma, "
SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/gawk/gawk-${PV}.tar.gz \
file://run-ptest \
--
2.34.1
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