Adjust `configure` and makefiles so that `configure` can be run in an
directory, not just the source directory. Initial boot files are found
at either the current directory or the source directory.
Also, add support for `-B` and `--Boot` flags to accept a path that is
resolved relative to the current directory, instead of relative to the
installation.
The `--enable-cs` and `--enable-csdefault` flags now enabled just the
CS build, as long as pb boot files are present or
`--enable-racket=...` is supplied.
Currently, `make` is the same as `make bc`, but the idea is that
`make` can become the same as `make cs` when some other pieces are in
place.
The source of the top-level makefile is now ".makefile", and it's
turned into "Makefile" using "racket/src/makemake.rkt". The
transformation makes non-GNU `make` variants and `nmake` act like GNU
make to propagate variables, which makes abstraction through targets
plus variables (admitedly an abuse of `make`) more reliable and
consistent.
Why abuse `make` this way? Because `make` variants and `nmake` are
similar enough that to constitute a portable scripting language, and
one that conveniently provides a large number of entry points.
Also, schemified "thread", "io", "regexp", "schemify", and "expander"
layers are checked in. Overall, building Racket CS no longer requires
first building Racket BC.
The imported sources are from the `racket/ChezScheme` repository,
which branched from `cisco/ChezScheme`. The commit history is
preserved, but all of the commit IDs have shifted, because bootfiles
have been pruned from the history.
The "cs-bootstrap" package is now in the `racket/ChezScheme` repo,
because it needs to track the Chez Scheme implementation instead of
the Racket implementation.
Move "racket/src/cs/bootstrap" from the Racket source repository to
this one, because the bootstrapping implementation needs to track the
Chez Scheme source much more closely than the Racket implementation.
Currently, any Racket v7.1 or later works.
Also update "README.md" and "BUILDING" to get all the information
consistent and in sync with revised build options.
original commit: a9e6e99ea414b4625fe9705e4f3cfd62bbf38ae2
For example, if the number of floating-point registers in "x86_64.ss"
changes, now only one ".def" file has to change instead of 14 ".def"
files.
original commit: c79524cc3eb516d9bee1708c06b80e3688fdd2ff
Makefile and configure improvements turn on more checking with MinGW,
so fix the resulting warnings-as-errors.
original commit: df2ff94b2b878924b5ca925c48253d147f668e79
This commit does four things:
* Adds "pb.ss" and "pb.c", which implement a portable bytecode
backend and interpreter that is intended for bootstrapping. A
single set of pb bootfiles can support bootstrapping on all
platforms --- as long as the C compiler supports a 64-bit integer
type. The pb machine supports foreign calls for only a small set of
recognized prototypes, and it does not support foriegn callables.
Use `./configure --pb` to build the pb variant.
* Changes the kernel's casts between `ptr` and `void*` types. In a pb
build, the `ptr` type can be a 64-bit integer type while `void*` is
a 32-bit pointer type, so casts must go through an intermediate
integer type.
* Adjusts the compiler to accomodate run-time-determined endianness.
Making the compiler agnostic to word size is not practical, but
only a few pieces depend on the target machine's endianness, and
those can generally be deferred to a run-time choice of byte-based
operations. The one exception is that ftype bit fields are not
allowed unless accompanied by an explicit endianness declaration.
* Start reducing duplication among platform-specific makefiles. For
example, `Mf-ta6osx` chains to `Mf-a6osx` to avoid repeating most
of it. A lot more can be done here.
original commit: 97533fa9d8b8400b0dc1a890768c7d30c91257e0
All back ends had essentially the same `define-instruction`, just with
slightly more functionality, checking, or abstraction each case. The
newly shared version better sorts out some inherent run-time checks
versus safe-mode assertions related to fp and non-fp arguments.
original commit: c70836fa04eb33442fd3ca273ce9ca08ce877fec
Commit 023681947c fixed a problem cooperating with xform, but the
repair assumes xform. The "embed-in-c.rkt" test, for example, uses 3m
without xform (and instead uses macros like `MZ_GC_DECL_REG`.
It's not clear that adding to "HISTORY.txt" is all that useful. But as
long as we do, at least include milestones that were signficant enough
to mention in release announcements.
