1 Hacking on Connection Manager
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5 Build tools requirements
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8 When building and testing directly from the repository it is important to
9 have at least automake version 1.10 or later installed. All modern
10 distributions should default to the latest version, but it seems that
11 Debian's default is still an earlier version:
14 # dpkg -l '*automake*'
17 # apt-get install automake1.10
18 # update-alternatives --config automake
21 Working with the source code repository
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24 The repository contains two extra scripts that accomplish the bootstrap
25 process. One is called "bootstrap" which is the basic scripts that uses the
26 autotools scripts to create the needed files for building and installing.
27 It makes sure to call the right programs depending on the usage of shared or
28 static libraries or translations etc.
30 The second program is called "bootstrap-configure". This program will make
31 sure to properly clean the repository, call the "bootstrap" script and then
32 call configure with proper settings for development. It will use the best
33 options and pass them over to configure. These options normally include
34 the enabling the maintainer mode and the debugging features.
36 So while in a normal source project the call "./configure ..." is used to
37 configure the project with its settings like prefix and extra options. In
38 case of bare repositories call "./bootstrap-configure" and it will bootstrap
39 the repository and calls configure with all the correct options to make
42 In case of preparing for a release with "make distcheck", don't use
43 bootstrap-configure since it could export development specific settings.
45 So the normal steps to checkout, build and install such a repository is
49 # git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/connman/connman.git
53 # ./bootstrap-configure
57 # make install DESTDIR=$PWD/x
67 Remove autogenerated files
68 # make maintainer-clean
71 Running from within the source code repository
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74 When using "./configure --enable-maintainer-mode" the automake scripts will
75 use the plugins directly from within the repository. This removes the need
76 to use "make install" when testing "connmand". The "bootstrap-configure"
77 automatically includes this option.
79 Run daemon in foreground with debugging
80 # sudo ./src/connmand -n -d 'plugins/*'
82 The debugging option -d takes an argument. This argument can be a comma
83 separated list of file names like 'plugins/wifi.c,plugins/ethernet.c' to
84 enable debugs in these files. Simple glob style pattern matching is
85 supported in this list.
87 For production installations or distribution packaging it is important that
88 the "--enable-maintainer-mode" option is NOT used.
90 Some times it is important to restrict the available interfaces. For example
91 in cases where testing happens over a network connection. The "-i" command
92 line switch allows to specify a glob pattern for the interface names.
94 Run daemon for wireless interfaces
95 # sudo ./src/connmand -n -i wlan*
98 Debugging the D-Bus interface during runtime
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101 Running the daemon with debugging information in the foreground is quite
102 verbose and sometimes not really helpful. The "monitor-connman" script
103 allows to monitor "PropertyChanged" D-Bus signals from various interfaces.
105 Every "PropertyChanged" signal will generate a line of output. Some of them
106 can get very complex. The first detail inside "{ ... }" is the interface
107 name (without its service name prefix). The second detail inside "[ ... ]"
108 is the object path. And after that it is followed by a key and value of
109 the property that changed.
112 Generating source code documentation
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115 The source code is annotated using the gtk-doc style documentation. This
116 allows an easy way of generating API documentation. The "bootstrap-configure"
117 script will use the "--enable-gtk-doc" configure to enable the generation of
120 To make the gtk-doc process work, the gtk-doc tools need to be installed.
121 Every distribution should provide a package for this, but the naming of the
122 package might be different:
125 # apt-get install gtk-doc-tools
128 # apt-get install gtk-doc-utils
131 # yum install gtk-doc
133 In case "bootstrap-configure" is not used, the manual steps for generating
134 the documentation files are like this:
136 Configuring the repository
137 # ./configure --enable-gtk-doc
139 Generate the documentation
143 # firefox doc/html/index.html