The VFS overlay mapping between virtual paths and real paths is done through
the 'external-contents' entries in YAML files, which contains hardcoded paths
to the real files.
When a module compilation crashes, headers are dumped into <name>.cache/vfs
directory and are mapped via the <name>.cache/vfs/vfs.yaml. The script
generated for reproduction uses -ivfsoverlay pointing to file to gather the
mapping between virtual paths and files inside <name>.cache/vfs. Currently, we
are only capable of reproducing such crashes in the same machine as they
happen, because of the hardcoded paths in 'external-contents'.
To be able to reproduce a crash in another machine, this patch introduces a new
option in the VFS yaml file called 'overlay-relative'. When it's equal to
'true' it means that the provided path to the YAML file through the
-ivfsoverlay option should also be used to prefix the final path for every
'external-contents'.
Example, given the invocation snippet "... -ivfsoverlay
<name>.cache/vfs/vfs.yaml" and the following entry in the yaml file:
"overlay-relative": "true",
"roots": [
...
"type": "directory", "name": "/usr/include", "contents": [ { "type": "file", "name": "stdio.h", "external-contents": "/usr/include/stdio.h" },
...
Here, a file manager request for virtual "/usr/include/stdio.h", that will map
into real path "/<absolute_path_to>/<name>.cache/vfs/usr/include/stdio.h.
This is a useful feature for debugging module crashes in machines other than
the one where the error happened.
This patch depends on http://reviews.llvm.org/D17104.