builder: refactor link file inputs

Add a 'result' member to the compileJob struct which is used by the link
job to get all the paths that should be linked together. This is not yet
necessary (the paths are fixed), but soon the paths are only known after
a linker dependency has run.

builder/jobs.go

@@ -27,12 +27,23 @@ const (
 type compileJob struct {
 	description  string // description, only used for logging
 	dependencies []*compileJob
-	run          func() error
+	result       string // result (path)
+	run          func(*compileJob) (err error)
 	state        jobState
 	err          error         // error if finished
 	duration     time.Duration // how long it took to run this job (only set after finishing)
 }
 
+// dummyCompileJob returns a new *compileJob that produces an output without
+// doing anything. This can be useful where a *compileJob producing an output is
+// expected but nothing needs to be done, for example for a load from a cache.
+func dummyCompileJob(result string) *compileJob {
+	return &compileJob{
+		description: "<dummy>",
+		result:      result,
+	}
+}
+
 // readyToRun returns whether this job is ready to run: it is itself not yet
 // started and all dependencies are finished.
 func (job *compileJob) readyToRun() bool {
@@ -150,9 +161,11 @@ func nextJob(jobs []*compileJob) *compileJob {
 func jobWorker(workerChan, doneChan chan *compileJob) {
 	for job := range workerChan {
 		start := time.Now()
-		err := job.run()
-		if err != nil {
-			job.err = err
+		if job.run != nil {
+			err := job.run(job)
+			if err != nil {
+				job.err = err
+			}
 		}
 		job.duration = time.Since(start)
 		doneChan <- job