Deduplicate headers across the per-target sysroots - #656
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This commit is an attempt at addressing WebAssembly#655 to remove duplicate header files across the sysroot. I don't know of an easy way of doing this with the built-in installation processes so a small script is added here which implements the logic of moving files around. The build process now configures the include install directory to be in a non-final location and the script will assemble it into the final location. The end result is that `share/wasi-sysroot/include` directly includes header files which are the exact same across all targets and configurations. This doesn't include all headers, however, and per-target sysroots are still present for headers that differ like `wasi/version.h` or exception-related things in libcxx. Overall this shaved ~300M off a local install which seems like a nice size reduction. Closes WebAssembly#655
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| // Bring all iterators up to `name` | ||
| for (other, src) in rest.iter_mut() { | ||
| while let Some((e, ft)) = other.next_if(|(e, _)| e < name) { | ||
| // cp_r(&mut src.join(&e), ft, &mut dst_root.join(&dst).join(&e)); |
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This commit is an attempt at addressing #655 to remove duplicate header files across the sysroot. I don't know of an easy way of doing this with the built-in installation processes so a small script is added here which implements the logic of moving files around. The build process now configures the include install directory to be in a non-final location and the script will assemble it into the final location.
The end result is that
share/wasi-sysroot/includedirectly includes header files which are the exact same across all targets and configurations. This doesn't include all headers, however, and per-target sysroots are still present for headers that differ likewasi/version.hor exception-related things in libcxx.Overall this shaved ~300M off a local install which seems like a nice size reduction.
Closes #655