Lucas Chollet cc0939a666 Everywhere: Stop using pc in our target triples
While `pc` is not particularly wrong on x86_64, it's nonsensical on
other supported platforms, namely aarch64 and riscv64.

For consistency, we now don't use this vendor anymore, regardless of the
platform.

Within the LLVM project, we now build as `$arch-serenity`. This is
enough in most cases, the only place where we have to specify a vendor
is the target .cfg file where we use `$arch-unknown-serenity`.

When building GCC and friends, again we simply identify as
`$arch-serenity` and this is enough.

As a result, the tools in Toolchain/Local/$arch/bin are now named after
this pattern: `$arch-serenity-$tool`.

These changes affect the toolchain build scripts, serenity's build
scripts and the Ports.

The last place where we should see `x86_64-pc-serenity` is the output of
`config.sub`, which assume the vendor is `pc` on vendor-less `x86*`
triples. So `x86_64-serenity` is expanded to `x86_64-pc-serenity`,
luckily enough and AFAICT, the whole GNU ecosystem considers `pc`,
`unknown` and vendor-less target triples the same. So `configure`
shouldn't have an issue finding the right tools anyway.

The gn files were edited with sed and are not tested.

This commit also includes a check in `Meta/serenity.sh` to give a nicer
error message when trying to build the system with an old toolchain.

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To test this patch, on a clean tree I:
 - Ran `./Meta/serenity.sh x86_64 GNU`
 - Ran `./Toolchain/BuildJakt.sh`
 - Tested these ports: python3(configure based), libjxl(cmake based) and
   rizin(meson based)
 - Also booted on aarch64 and risv64

I also repeated the steps above with a Clang toolchain.

On a working tree I tested all the affected ports, the results are:
 - tinycc build fine but can't compile programs, I observed the same on
   master.
 - gdb and epsilon don't build but report the same errors as on master.
 - I manually edited the libgpg-error, and it builds fine.
 - The gcc port works fine.
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SerenityOS

Graphical Unix-like operating system for 64-bit x86, Arm, and RISC-V computers.

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About

SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces with a custom Unix-like core. It flatters with sincerity by stealing beautiful ideas from various other systems.

Roughly speaking, the goal is a marriage between the aesthetic of late-1990s productivity software and the power-user accessibility of late-2000s *nix. This is a system by us, for us, based on the things we like.

You can watch videos of the system being developed on YouTube:

Screenshot

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Features

  • Modern 64-bit kernel with pre-emptive multi-threading
  • Browser with JavaScript, WebAssembly, and more (check the spec compliance for JS, CSS, and Wasm)
  • Security features (hardware protections, limited userland capabilities, W^X memory, pledge & unveil, (K)ASLR, OOM-resistance, web-content isolation, state-of-the-art TLS algorithms, ...)
  • System services (WindowServer, LoginServer, AudioServer, WebServer, RequestServer, CrashServer, ...) and modern IPC
  • Good POSIX compatibility (LibC, Shell, syscalls, signals, pseudoterminals, filesystem notifications, standard Unix utilities, ...)
  • POSIX-like virtual file systems (/proc, /dev, /sys, /tmp, ...) and ext2 file system
  • Network stack and applications with support for IPv4, TCP, UDP; DNS, HTTP, Gemini, IMAP, NTP
  • Profiling, debugging and other development tools (Kernel-supported profiling, CrashReporter, interactive GUI playground, HexEditor, HackStudio IDE for C++ and more)
  • Libraries for everything from cryptography to OpenGL, audio, JavaScript, GUI, playing chess, ...
  • Support for many common and uncommon file formats (PNG, JPEG, GIF, MP3, WAV, FLAC, ZIP, TAR, PDF, QOI, Gemini, ...)
  • Unified style and design philosophy, flexible theming system, custom (bitmap and vector) fonts
  • Games (Solitaire, Minesweeper, 2048, chess, Conway's Game of Life, ...) and demos (CatDog, Starfield, Eyes, mandelbrot set, WidgetGallery, ...)
  • Every-day GUI programs and utilities (Spreadsheet with JavaScript, TextEditor, Terminal, PixelPaint, various multimedia viewers and players, Mail, Assistant, Calculator, ...)

... and all of the above are right in this repository, no extra dependencies, built from-scratch by us :^)

Additionally, there are over three hundred ports of popular open-source software, including games, compilers, Unix tools, multimedia apps and more.

How do I read the documentation?

Man pages are available online at man.serenityos.org. These pages are generated from the Markdown source files in Base/usr/share/man and updated automatically.

When running SerenityOS you can use man for the terminal interface, or help for the GUI.

Code-related documentation can be found in the documentation folder.

How do I build and run this?

See the SerenityOS build instructions or the Ladybird build instructions.

The build system supports a cross-compilation build of SerenityOS from Linux, macOS, Windows (with WSL2) and many other *Nixes. The default build system commands will launch a QEMU instance running the OS with hardware or software virtualization enabled as supported.

Ladybird runs on the same platforms that can be the host for a cross build of SerenityOS and on SerenityOS itself.

Get in touch and participate!

Join our Discord server: SerenityOS Discord

Before opening an issue, please see the issue policy.

A general guide for contributing can be found in CONTRIBUTING.md.

Authors

And many more! See here for a full contributor list. The people listed above have landed more than 100 commits in the project. :^)

License

SerenityOS is licensed under a 2-clause BSD license.

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