Rather than `zig0 build ...` the build now does
`zig0 build-lib ...`, avoiding the requirement of linking the build
script, and thus avoiding the requirement of finding native libc,
for systems where libc is the system ABI.
* libc_installation.cpp is deleted.
src-self-hosted/libc_installation.zig is now used for both stage1 and
stage2 compilers.
* (breaking) move `std.fs.File.access` to `std.fs.Dir.access`. The API
now encourages use with an open directory handle.
* Add `std.os.faccessat` and related functions.
* Deprecate the "C" suffix naming convention for null-terminated
parameters. "C" should be used when it is related to libc. However
null-terminated parameters often have to do with the native system
ABI rather than libc. "Z" suffix is the new convention. For example,
`std.os.openC` is deprecated in favor of `std.os.openZ`.
* Add `std.mem.dupeZ` for using an allocator to copy memory and add a
null terminator.
* Remove dead struct field `std.ChildProcess.llnode`.
* Introduce `std.event.Batch`. This API allows expressing concurrency
without forcing code to be async. It requires no Allocator and does
not introduce any failure conditions. However it is not thread-safe.
* There is now an ongoing experiment to transition away from
`std.event.Group` in favor of `std.event.Batch`.
* `std.os.execvpeC` calls `getenvZ` rather than `getenv`. This is
slightly more efficient on most systems, and works around a
limitation of `getenv` lack of integration with libc.
* (breaking) `std.os.AccessError` gains `FileBusy`, `SymLinkLoop`, and
`ReadOnlyFileSystem`. Previously these error codes were all reported
as `PermissionDenied`.
* Add `std.Target.isDragonFlyBSD`.
* stage2: access to the windows_sdk functions is done with a manually
maintained .zig binding file instead of `@cImport`.
* Update src-self-hosted/libc_installation.zig with all the
improvements that stage1 has seen to src/libc_installation.cpp until
now. In addition, it now takes advantage of Batch so that evented I/O
mode takes advantage of concurrency, but it still works in blocking
I/O mode, which is how it is used in stage1.
See discussion here for context:
c6df5deb34 (comments)
Michael - I appreciate what you did here, making the configure script
work better for people in practice. When it was checking the build type
against a whitelist, I think it was worth it. However, now that we are
supporting systems which use non-standard cmake build modes, I don't
think this case-mismatch detection thing is worth it. It's starting to
get to the point where it's a lot of complication for very little
benefit. Besides, cmake is not case sensitive. If we support
non-standard build modes, then we would need to support a hypothetical
build mode of `release` (lower case).
So let's just remove this and rely on people to use the build system
correctly (like they will have to do when building any cmake project
from source).
Various maintainers pass custom build types and we don't need to check
those. We are interested only in checking and diagnosing common errors
for Zig project supported types.
Check is now limited to look for case-mismatch only on the well-known
values { Debug, Release, RelWithDebInfo, MinSizeRel }.
