[Haiku] Nimcache glitches on Koch boot

[Teashrock]

Attempt to bootstrap with boot results in weird error, where symbol ':' is somehow replaced by '/'. I tried to trace the error with my own hands.

koch.nim, begins at line 321

exec "$# $# $# $# --nimcache:$# --compileOnly compiler" / "nim.nim" %
  [nimi, bootOptions, extraOption, args, smartNimcache]
exec "$# jsonscript $# --nimcache:$# compiler" / "nim.nim" %
  [nimi, args, smartNimcache]

Current Output

iteration: 1
bin/nim c --skipUserCfg --skipParentCfg -d:release -d:useLinenoise --nimcache/nimcache/r_haiku_amd64 --compileOnly compiler/nim.nim
command line(1, 2): Error: invalid command line option: '--nimcache/nimcache/r_haiku_amd64'
FAILURE

Expected Output

The above "invalid command line option" should be --nimcache:nimcache/r_haiku_amd64, not that example above.

This issue is completely absent on Windows and Linux, so I decided to look at generated code on all three systems and compare it source written on Nim.

On all three systems the generated code is similar to each other (aside the string numbers on Windows):

Windows:

Linux:

Haiku:

The problem strings...

STRING_LITERAL(TM_xRS4M9adyeRIWGepJlj9bcoA_72, "$# $# $# $# --nimcache:$# --compileOnly compiler", 48);
STRING_LITERAL(TM_xRS4M9adyeRIWGepJlj9bcoA_74, "$# jsonscript $# --nimcache:$# compiler", 39);

...are similar too. So i didn't localize the problem, but found a temporary solution:

Possible TEMPORARY Solution

• In file koch.nim make problem symbol ':' be a raw string, concatenated to others.

Was:

exec "$# $# $# $# --nimcache:$# --compileOnly compiler" / "nim.nim" %
  [nimi, bootOptions, extraOption, args, smartNimcache]
exec "$# jsonscript $# --nimcache:$# compiler" / "nim.nim" %
  [nimi, args, smartNimcache]

Will be:

exec "$# $# $# $# --nimcache" %
  [nimi, bootOptions, extraOption, args] &
r":" & "$# --compileOnly compiler" / "nim.nim" %
  [smartNimcache]
exec "$# jsonscript $# --nimcache" %
  [nimi, args] &
r":" & "$# compiler" / "nim.nim" %
  [smartNimcache]

Additional Information

• Not needed.

$ nim -v
Nim Compiler Version 1.1.1 [Windows: amd64]
Compiled at 2020-01-03
Copyright (c) 2006-2019 by Andreas Rumpf

git hash: 0ecb709cbeec2e77d6ce8dae251270a7d1e3826e
active boot switches: -d:release