The `--recompile-only` flag makes sense if machine-independent
bytecode can be deterministically generated from all Racket builds.
While the current compiler is close, there are obstacles such as the
lack of support for single-precision floating-point literals in Racket
CS. We settle for using `--recompile-only` in the main bundle phase,
which is the part that most needs to go fast.
To make fasl writing as determinsitic and portable as possible, write
+nan.0 and +nan.f always with a specific bit pattern.
This choice risks losing information that is potentially useful, but
given the way that Racket treats all NaN encodings as equivalent, that
rick seems low.
For example, `#hasheq()` is `eq?` to `(hasheq)` and `(hash-remove
(hasheq 'x 2) 'x)`. Making empty hash table unique avoids some
potential and actual inconsistencies between traditional Racket and
Racket CS, such as in machine-independent bytecode.
Move different handling of serialized syntax data to the schemify
layer instead of te expander, so that the result of compiling in
machine-independent form is the same for traditional Racket and Racket
CS.
The `--recompile-only` flag is intended to help dectect build
problems, especially distribution builds where packages are
supposed to be in built form.
This allows it to cooperate better with Typed Racket, particularly
regarding the `Any` type. The guard and use of `#:authentic` also
check that it's still a singleton in all cases.
Avoid parsing cross-linklet optimization information until it is
needed. This change also avoids a problem with saving hash codes
that are platform-specific.
Insteda of just consulting `lib-search-dirs` in the host system's
config during cross-build mode, use `lib-dir` if set to arrive at
the expected default when `lib-search-dirs` is not set.
Handle not-this-platform paths that manage to evade the heuristics for
converting paths to and from relative form. Otherwise, building can go
wrong on on Windows when using machine-independent starting files
generated on Unix-like systems.
The `--error-out` and `--error-in` flags are meant to work together to
chain a sequence of `raco setup` steps where one of them might fail,
but other steps should proceed. The last step in that sequence should
use only `--error-in`, so that it exits with failure if any of the
steps failed.
The `both` target of the toplevel makefile uses `--error-out` and
`--error-in` to let a Racket CS build proceed as long as the
traditional Racket build made it to the last `raco setup` step, which
means that it survives package-build errors.
The Chez Scheme fasl format is not machine-independent when record
types are involved, so use the process that serves compilation to also
serve fasl encoding.
In parallel build mode, if attempting to compile a file triggers a
cycle error that is caught and discarded, don't leave behind a
dependency (that is effectively resolved by the error) in the
parallel-worker manager.
It doesn't do anything, but make it a conforming variant of the
identity function. Also, fill in checking for `compile-linklet`,
and correction documentation errors for `compile-linklet` and
`recompile-linklet`.
Makefile and configure refinements, including targets to let the
distro-build package drive a cross-build from scratch. A cross
build on Mac OS for Windows now works, for example.
The intent was never for the data argument to be optional, but a
mistake in traditional Racket's argument dispatch for `log-message`
made it optional in some cases, so the simplest way forward is to make
it consistently optional. Repair traditional Racket to use `#f`
instead of a random value when the data argument is not provided.
Add options to load a "plug-in" cross compiler, which should be a Chez
Scheme patch file plus declarations for the built-in libraries. Since
loading a patch file replaces the initial compiler, a separate
cross-compiler process is used to load the plug-in.
Adjust build process to be able to generate Racket.exe, etc, for
Racket CS using MinGW. Much of this cross-compilation support can work
for building other platforms, too, but some of the details are filled
in only for generating Windows executables.
