pickle: replace compilers with those in the coredata By storing an environment in the compilers, commit a6c4a4d introduced a link from coredata.dat to the Environment object. This creates a circular link between build.dat and coredata.dat. Until now, the circular link caused build.dat to store separate copies of the compilers, and potentially through those compilers even a different Environment and CoreData (!). The previous patch fixed all references from Compiler to Environment, by storing a proxy to the Environment in coredata.dat. However, there is still the problem that targets can refer to compilers that are different from those in the CoreData, resulting in incorrect introspection data. Fix this by storing proxies from the Build to the compilers in the coredata. This creates a cycle because the Environment is needed to load the CoreData, and Build (which contains the Environment) needs the CoreData to be loaded first. To break it, first load the Environment minus the coredata, then the CoreData, then the Build. A much cleaner solution would be to make callers of build.load() use either the introspection data or (as a last resort) the coredata; and remove altogether the need to pickle the Build and Environment. But that is a bigger change, and even if that is done, the need for MesonPickler (to avoid new occurrences of the bug) and CoreDataPickler remains. Only this commit and "pickle: extract checks on loaded objects" could be reverted. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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