These comparisons are useful for sorting while avoiding the overhead
of conversions to bytes or strings.
Having `path<' reduces the cost of sorting in `directory-list'.
Consistently sorting shouldn't cost much relative to the
cost of `directory-list' (except for the path->bytes conversion?),
and it makes directory traversals (including archive packaging)
more deterministic across runs and platforms.
(Eli suggested this a long time ago.)
A launcher can have a ".desktop" file (found like other files: as the
same name as the main launcher file, but with a ".desktop" suffix),
where the "Exec" and "Icon" fields are added automatically. A ".png"
or ".ico" file can be supplied for the icon (where the ".ico" file
is already used for Windows launchers).
Closes PR 13953
Fix various problems with Unix-style install from an installer.
Also, add an ugly icon for the Racket Package Manager, with the hope
that it will provoke someone to create a nicer one.
The issue is that gcc and the Sun linker do not cooperate
correctly to implement thread-local variables on x86_64.
Since gcc is normally configured to use the Sun linker by
default, enabling places and futures is asking for trouble.
Fix SIGCHLD suspension for fork()-based file locks (i.e., Solaris).
Also, fix commit ea51d32e, which broke termination of process groups
where the main process terminated before the rest of the group,
because it used sigwait() before the terminate action.
Make the GC always use the mmap() block cache, since mmap() on Solaris
allocates much more than a page when a single page is requested.
Enable places and threads by default on x86 and x86_64.
Fix pthread-related compilation flags.
the check is to avoid drawing check syntax arrows
that go too far away; this may not be really possible
anymore, but in the past the old limit could be hit with
a long file and an arrow that went its length
