This restores the symlinks for the installation, but teaches the busybox
info search to look for a relative path to the busybox binary itself
before walking through symlinks. This let's it find the tree structure
when directly invoking `prefix_root/bin/carbon` or similar, either
inside of a Bazel rule or from the command line, and mirrors how we
expect the installed tree to look. This works even when Bazel resolves
the symlink target fully, and potentially to something nonsensical like
a CAS file.
In order to make a convenient Bazel target that can be used with `bazel
run //toolchain`, this adds an override to explicitly set the desired
argv[0] to use when selecting a mode for the busybox and a busybox
binary. Currently, the workaround uses an environment variable because
that required the least amount of plumbing, and seems a useful override
mechanism generally, but I'm open to other approaches.
This should allow a few things to work a bit more nicely:
- It should handle sibling symlinks like `clang++` to `clang` or
`ld.lld` to `lld`, where that symlink in turn points at the busybox.
We want to use *initial* `argv[0]` value to select the mode there.
- It avoids bouncing through Python (or other subprocesses) when
invoking the `carbon` binary in Bazel rules, which will be nice for
building the example code and benchmarking.
It does come at a cost of removing one feature: the initial symlink
can't be some unrelated alias like `my_carbon_symlink` -- we expect the
*first* argv[0] name to have the meaningful filename for selecting
a busybox mode.
It also trades the complexity of the Python script for some complexity
in the busybox search in order to look for a relative `carbon-busybox`
binary. On the whole, I think that tradeoff is worthwhile, but it isn't
free.
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Co-authored-by: Jon Ross-Perkins <jperkins@google.com>
As discussed in #4530 . This required switching to using
`llvm::IntrusiveRefCntPtr` in a number of places.
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Co-authored-by: Josh L <josh11b@users.noreply.github.com>
For reference, we're going down the busyboxing route because Carbon
depends on Clang, and we want both to be available as binaries.
Busyboxing allows this while avoiding duplicating symbols between
multiple binaries.
I'm removing the `cc_binary` for `driver:carbon` because I want to avoid
a significant increase in binary outputs; `bazel run //toolchain` still
works great.
This still doesn't have great test coverage (but non-zero:
`//examples:sieve` still builds/runs, for example). The problem is that
we want to avoid subprocessing for performance, but this mainly deals
with subprocessing. I'm still thinking about good approaches for that,
since we'll probably want more significant testing for `clang`
interaction... the solution might involve busyboxing `file_test` too.
Note development on this ran into the argv issue being fixed in #4405
Chandler CarruthandJon Ross-Perkins
josh11bandJosh L