Perpetuate a failure to make Windows paths behave reasonably with
path-manipulation functions.
In one case, the new implementation seemed better than the old one, so
I've changed the old implementation (by deleting code) and test cases.
The old code would split "x /y" to "\\?\REL\x " and "y", and the new
one splits to "x /" and "y"; the trailing separator is now enough to
preserve the space character, and it also preserves the directoryness
of the path. Of course, "x /" splits to 'relative and "\\?\REL\x " as
it strips away the trailing "/".
A remaining problem in both implementations: some Windows API
functions implicitly erase a trailing "." in a directory name, making
"x./y" equivalent to "x/y". The Racket path-manipulation functions
don't do that, so splitting and recombining "x./y" does not access the
same path as the original. This apparently hasn't been a problem in
practice, and there are so many terrible hacks already, so I left it
alone.
The new implementation perpetuates also the implementation mistake of
representing paths internally as byte strings. If, in some terrible
universe, I'm forced to do this again, the right choice is probably to
keep the path in a parsed form with enough information to reconstruct
the original, but with the information sorted nicely to make various
normalizations and combinations easy.
This commit merges changes that were developed in the "racket7" repo.
See that repo (which is no longer modified) for a more fine-grained
change history.
The commit includes experimental support for running Racket on Chez
Scheme, but that "CS" variant is not built by default.
In non-cross mode, `-C` needs to go after `-G` and `-X` when setting
up a "bundle" directory to turn into an installer, because that mode
needs to use foreign libraries (such as SQLite) at build time, and it
can use the instances that are being set up for the installer.
Meanwhile, improve the advice for setting `PLAIN_RACKET` to use `-C`
for a cross-platform build mode, even though things tend to work
anyway without it.
Although "macOS" is the correct name for Apple's current desktop OS,
we've decided to go with "Mac OS" to cover all of Apple's Unix-like
desktop OS versions. The label "Mac OS" is more readable, clear in
context (i.e., unlikely to be confused with the Mac OSes that
proceeded Mac OS X), and as likely to match Apple's future OS names
as anything.
The `as-is` target is like the default target, but it skips package
update and installation, so it's suitable for rebuilding after local
changes that might include changes to the core.
The `--enable-natipkg` configuration option adds "-natipkg" to the
platform library subpath. The suffix is intended to trigger the
installation of packages that supply native libraries for supported
platforms (where 64-bit Linux is the supported platform, for now, for
main-distribution packages), instead of relying on libraries installed
via the OS's package manager.
The intended client for "-natipkg" is the package-build service, where
installing packages via the OS package manager would require network
access and either trust or constrained installations. The build
machine is intentionally disconnected from the network and can only
access Racket packages, so repackaging native libraries as Racket
packages makes those libraries accessible.
A disadvantage of this approach to installing native libraries is that
it creates work for implementers of packages that access native
libraries. Those implementers will have to supply packages for 64-bit
Linux versions of native libraries to the degree needed to build and
(eventually) test the package. An advantage of the approach is that it
requires no changes to the package system; it will be cheap to replace
this approach if we find a better way to deal with native libraries
and/or OS packages in the package-build service.
Visual Studio 2008 is still supported by "9.sln" projects and
".vcproj" files, while ".sln" and ".vcxproj" work for 2010, 2012,
and 2013. The "build.bat" script detects which version of
Visual Studio is active and uses the appropriate ".sln" files.
The bad news is that we have two copies of each project until we
decide to drop support for Visual Studio 2008. (We had two copies
before, but one copy was unmaintained.) The good news is that
we have only 2 copies of each project, because recent versions of
Visual Studio are willing to use 2010 projects as-is.
Change project and related files to text instead of always CRLF,
because that seems to be ok for modern Windows tools.
This makes the build more secure, but it's a backward-incompatible change.
To adapt old site-configuration scripts, the simplest option is to set
`#:server' to "localhost" everywhere and rely on SSH tunneling to let
a client reach a server (though, unfortunately, that option doesn't
seem to work if a Windows machine uses freeSSHd). Another possibility
is to se `#:server-hosts' to the empty list.
Client SSH connections now create remote port forwarding port back
to the server, so that making the server listen only on "localhost"
provides an easy improvement for security (except that remote port
forwarding seems not to work with freeSSHd on Windows).
This looks like a good use case for submodules, because the
native-library packages change infrequently, and no one cares
about the history of changes relative to the rest of the
project (except to be able to get a set of packages that is
consistent with the rest of the repository).
The change avoids the problem that `make' on Mac OS X would
try a `git update', which is no good if you happen to be
offline (and have your "buidl.native-pkgs" repo pull from the
obvious place).
Finally, it's easier for Windows users, since `git submodule init'
and `git submodule update' is easier to use and remember than
`git clone <some-repository-URL>'. The makefile more helpfully
complains if "native-pkgs" doesn't seem to have been initialized
as a submodule.
More generally, `LINK_MODE' controls how the `PKGS' value is saved
or restored: "--save" saves the value (the default), "--restore"
uses a previously saved value (if any), and "" disables saving or
restoring.
The `again' target recurs to `in-place' with `LINK_MODE=--restore'.
