This also switches to a more Bazel-based install layout, skipping the
FHS-based synthetic layout. The FHS-based layout is still reconstructed
explicitly when building an installable tar-ball.
The biggest change is to configure the just-built install as a Bazel
toolchain, including allowing it to build its own runtime libraries as
native Bazel libraries. This removes the need for a monolithic runtimes
build, all of that code logic is removed.
This should also pave the way to using the just-built toolchain for
doing a full 3-stage bootstrap. Building the 2nd stage is included here
as it was a particularly effective way to test that the Bazel
integration was fully working. Adding a 3rd-stage check for stability is
future work, but should be pretty easy.
There is a down-side: this uses the busybox to do the runtimes
compilation, which means they will be re-built after ~any change to
Carbon. However, the integration with Bazel should largely pay for this,
and we can continue to factor the tests away from depending on built
runtimes in most cases.
Now that we're building and testing the runtimes more directly, this
surfaced a problem with the layout of runtimes on macOS that is fixed
here. All of the Darwin OSes use a custom layout for their resource
directory compared to other targets. We now model this in both the C++
built runtimes and the Bazel built runtimes.
Assisted-by: Gemini via Antigravity
Previously, we used the FHS "prefix" concept as the basis of the
install, but this makes it hard to integrate an installed toolchain with
Bazel (or similar) build system where it wants the "root" of the
toolchain to have some specific files (`MODULES.bazel` or
`BUILD.bazel`), and cannot reference anything outside that directory
tree.
An easy solution is to make the `lib/carbon` directory the root of the
install and never walking up from it. Then we simply have a `bin/carbon`
symlink to the busybox that is useful for getting the command into the
PATH, but isn't used for anything else. The FHS-constrained install
paths surround a root we fully control the layout and files within.
While initially motivated by trying to make a single toolchain structure
that works both for installation and for Bazel, it actually makes the
paths we end up using in the toolchain much simpler. We no longer have
awkward `.../lib/carbon/../../lib/carbon/...` sequences in the toolchain
which is cleaner and even a (trivial) efficiency gain.
As I was doing this I noticed several out-of-date comments that I tried
to fix, and I tried to improve some code reuse rather than re-computing
paths.
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Co-authored-by: Geoff Romer <gromer@google.com>
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>
Because install_paths is not presently validated, and it's resolved
after the `SetWorkingDirForBazel` call, if a relative path is used with
bazel then it would fail silently. This starts making the driver share
install path errors, and starts changing how `//toolchain` launches
`carbon`.
Note the implementation is still brittle and will break with symlinks.
That's something I plan to address as part of busyboxing.
Also makes an alias so that this is easier to find. Verified that
running the alias still finds prelude files.
Note the actual target is printed when building (although a symlink is
also created, using that symlink confuses file-finding).
```
╚╡bazel build :carbon
...
Target //toolchain/install:prefix_root/bin/carbon up-to-date:
bazel-bin/toolchain/install/prefix_root/bin/carbon
```
Chandler Carruth
