From: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
To: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Cc: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3] gn: Add recipe
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2025 08:36:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250929153647.1258488-1-raj.khem@gmail.com> (raw)
gn is a commonly used build tool to generate ninja files, used
in a lot of recipes e.g. chromium, qtwebengine, perfetto, hafnium etc.
these recipes come from different layers e.g. meta-qt6/meta-arm/meta-oe
since not all layers depend on meta-oe ( meta-arm does not ), its not
a possible option.
Given the usecases, putting it in core will benefit the ecosystem
and reduce some duplication. This recipe is taken from meta-arm
Disable maybe-initialized is a gcc specific option as error
Disable format warnings as errors, it adds -Wno-format explictly in
its build system
Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
---
v2:
* Disable shallow clone, build fails gen.py does not work with it
* Add build progress for do_compile
* Update to latest commit on main
v3:
* Make maybe-intialized opton to be gcc specific
* Disable format string warnings as errors
meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc | 1 +
meta/conf/distro/include/security_flags.inc | 1 +
meta/recipes-devtools/gn/gn_git.bb | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 54 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 meta/recipes-devtools/gn/gn_git.bb
diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
index 0988bf50a72..85a9914469b 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
@@ -224,6 +224,7 @@ RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-glibc-scripts = "Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>"
RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-glibc-testsuite = "Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>"
RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-gmp = "Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>"
RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-glslang = "Jose Quaresma <quaresma.jose@gmail.com>"
+RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-gn = "Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>"
RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-gnome-desktop-testing = "Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com>"
RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-gnu-config = "Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com>"
RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-gnu-efi = "Yi Zhao <yi.zhao@windriver.com>"
diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/security_flags.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/security_flags.inc
index f713a994651..824ba2c0e3f 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/security_flags.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/security_flags.inc
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ SECURITY_LDFLAGS:pn-sysklogd = ""
# Recipes which fail to compile when elevating -Wformat-security to an error
SECURITY_STRINGFORMAT:pn-busybox = ""
SECURITY_STRINGFORMAT:pn-gcc = ""
+SECURITY_STRINGFORMAT:pn-gn = ""
TARGET_CC_ARCH:append:class-target = " ${SECURITY_CFLAGS}"
TARGET_LDFLAGS:append:class-target = " ${SECURITY_LDFLAGS}"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/gn/gn_git.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/gn/gn_git.bb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d8896609b19
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/gn/gn_git.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+SUMMARY = "GN is a meta-build system that generates build files for Ninja"
+HOMEPAGE = "https://gn.googlesource.com/gn/"
+LICENSE = "BSD-3-Clause"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=0fca02217a5d49a14dfe2d11837bb34d"
+
+DEPENDS += "ninja-native"
+UPSTREAM_CHECK_COMMITS = "1"
+
+SRC_URI = "git://gn.googlesource.com/gn;protocol=https;branch=main"
+SRCREV = "81b24e01531ecf0eff12ec9359a555ec3944ec4e"
+PV = "0+git"
+
+BB_GIT_SHALLOW = ""
+
+B = "${WORKDIR}/build"
+
+# Map from our _OS strings to the GN's platform values.
+def gn_platform(variable, d):
+ os = d.getVar(variable)
+ if "linux" in os:
+ return "linux"
+ elif "mingw" in os:
+ return "mingw"
+ else:
+ return os
+
+do_configure[cleandirs] += "${B}"
+do_configure() {
+ python3 ${S}/build/gen.py \
+ --platform=${@gn_platform("TARGET_OS", d)} \
+ --out-path=${B} \
+ --no-static-libstdc++ \
+ --no-strip
+}
+
+# Catch build progress from ninja
+do_compile[progress] = "outof:^\[(\d+)/(\d+)\]\s+"
+
+do_compile() {
+ ninja -C ${B} --verbose
+}
+
+do_install() {
+ install -d ${D}${bindir}
+ install ${B}/gn ${D}${bindir}
+}
+
+BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"
+
+COMPATIBLE_HOST = "^(?!riscv32).*"
+
+CFLAGS:append:toolchain-gcc = " -Wno-error=maybe-uninitialized"
next reply other threads:[~2025-09-29 15:36 UTC|newest]
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2025-09-29 15:36 Khem Raj [this message]
2025-10-03 19:08 ` [OE-core] [PATCH v3] gn: Add recipe Jon Mason
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