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mimalloc: register fork handlers once per process (fixes macOS abort in astro/vite builds); build: --local-deps - #38291

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What was crashing

test/js/third_party/astro/astro-post.test.js and test/integration/vite-build/vite-build.test.ts SIGABRT on the darwin lanes since #37367 (build 95095). Stack:

abort
init_pthread_fork_detection()      ← BoringSSL aborts when pthread_atfork() != 0
pthread_once
RAND_bytes
bun_runtime::node::crypto::random::__jsc_host_random_bytes

The mimalloc dev3 sync left pthread_atfork(...) in mi_process_init() after its mi_atomic_do_once block instead of inside mi_process_init_once(). mi_process_init() is reached from every mi_heap_new(), so each transpile job / arena reset registered another handler triple (~1050 registrations by the time astro's build reaches its first randomBytes). macOS caps a process's atfork table at one page (~680 entries on arm64); once full, every other pthread_atfork in the process gets ENOMEM, and BoringSSL aborts on that. glibc's list is unbounded, so Linux only leaked entries.

Minimal repro: 700 trivial .ts imports followed by crypto.randomBytes(4) → abort(); 600 is fine.

Fix

Bump oven-sh/mimalloc to 6e891cbe — the bun-dev3-v2 merge of oven-sh/mimalloc#19 — which moves the call back under the once-guard and adds a regression case to the fork's test-fork-user-heap (fails with ENOMEM on macOS before, passes after). process.versions.mimalloc expectation updated.

Verified locally with build:release on macOS arm64, same build config both ways:

mimalloc source 700-import + randomBytes astro-post.test.js
be7eb3f (current pin) abort abort
6e891cbe (tree-identical to the tested f201f52a) ok 4/4 pass ×2

Also: --local-deps=name=path

Added while chasing this so a vendored dep can be built from a local checkout instead of the pinned tarball:

bun bd --local-deps=mimalloc=~/code/mimalloc test foo.test.ts

Works for any github-archive dep (name=path[,name=path]); no fetch / .ref / patches, banner shows local:<name>, unknown or disabled names fail at configure, and an out-of-repo checkout's objects map onto obj/vendor/<name>/. Editing the checkout rebuilds incrementally (for mimalloc: just static.c.o + link). Local/in-tree direct deps also stop stamping their source directory as a PCH dependency (depfiles already track edits). Default-config build.ninja is byte-identical apart from the pin. Docs in scripts/build/deps/README.md.

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The build system accepts --local-deps=name=path mappings, validates them, redirects eligible dependencies to local checkouts, and supports sources without fetch stamps. Documentation and the pinned mimalloc commit were updated.

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Local dependency override

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Configuration and dependency validation
scripts/build.ts, scripts/build/config.ts, scripts/build/bun.ts
The CLI accepts comma-separated local dependency mappings. Configuration resolves paths and validates dependency names and availability.
Local source resolution and build paths
scripts/build/source.ts, scripts/build/compile.ts
Eligible GitHub archive dependencies use local sources. Source validation and direct-build paths support missing fetch stamps. Object paths map local sources into the vendor tree.
Usage documentation and dependency update
scripts/build/CLAUDE.md, scripts/build/deps/README.md, scripts/build/deps/mimalloc.ts, test/js/node/process/process.test.js
Documentation describes local checkout workflows. The mimalloc commit and its process version test expectation were updated.

Possibly related PRs

  • oven-sh/bun#37992: Both PRs modify dependency and path handling in the build system.

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…l checkout

Iterating on a fork (mimalloc, libuv, ...) meant cutting a commit and
bumping the pin per round, or editing vendor/<name>/ in place and losing
it on the next re-fetch. `--local-deps=mimalloc=~/code/mimalloc` redirects
any github-archive dep to a checkout: no fetch, no .ref stamp, patches not
applied, banner shows local:<name>. Objects for an out-of-repo checkout map
onto obj/vendor/<name>/ so nothing escapes the build dir, and local/in-tree
direct deps no longer stamp their source directory (that made the PCH an
implicit dependent of the directory's mtime); the compiler depfiles already
track edits. Unknown or disabled dep names fail at configure.
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…in astro/vite builds)

Bumps oven-sh/mimalloc to 6e891cbe, the bun-dev3-v2 merge of
oven-sh/mimalloc#19. The dev3 sync in bun#37367 left mimalloc's
pthread_atfork call outside the once-guard in mi_process_init(), which
every mi_heap_new() reaches, so each transpile job's heap registered
another handler triple. macOS caps the atfork table at one page (~680
entries); once full, BoringSSL's own pthread_atfork got ENOMEM and
init_pthread_fork_detection() aborted on the first RAND_bytes. That is the
SIGABRT in astro-post.test.js and vite-build.test.ts on the darwin lanes.
Linux was unaffected (glibc's list is unbounded).
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This PR may be a duplicate of:

  1. worker: RSS comes back down after workers exit on macOS (test-worker-memory) #37226 - Adds BUN_MIMALLOC_PATH to build mimalloc from a local checkout, the same capability this PR generalizes into --local-deps=name=path, and bumps the same MIMALLOC_COMMIT line.

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…me map

- The disabled-dep error names the target and the checkout path and says
  what to do about it.
- parseLocalDeps returns a null-prototype record so a name like __proto__
  is kept and rejected as unknown instead of vanishing.

No-Verification-Needed: build-script messages/parsing only
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… the graph never reads

- depSourceDir() returns the --local-deps checkout when one is set, so
  lsquic's -I into boringssl/lshpack/lsqpack/zlib and boringssl's nasm -I
  follow a redirect instead of pointing at an unfetched vendor/<name>/.
- lolhtml is github-archive but build:none with no sources/includes: the
  graph only fetches it and cargo reads vendor/lolhtml through Cargo.toml.
  Redirecting it did nothing while the banner said local:lolhtml; it now
  fails at configure with a pointer to the real consumer. Docs qualified.
… atfork table)

Spawned fixture for the mimalloc pthread_atfork regression: 800 one-line
.ts imports (each transpile job creates a mimalloc heap) followed by
crypto.randomBytes(4). With the fork handlers registered per mi_heap_new
the macOS atfork table fills and BoringSSL's init_pthread_fork_detection()
aborts; fails with SIGABRT on 18391f6's darwin build, passes with the
bumped mimalloc. Darwin-only: other libcs grow the table dynamically.

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Additional findings (outside current diff — PR may have been updated during review):

  • 🔴 test/internal/build-local-deps.test.ts:189-195 — This test hardcodes forward-slash ninja paths (build obj/vendor/mimalloc/..., || obj/.dir) but Ninja.rel() returns raw node:path.relative() output and ninjaEscapePath() doesn't normalize separators, so on a Windows host the emitted line is build obj\vendor\mimalloc\src\static.c.obj: cc ..\mimalloc\src\static.c || obj\.dir — findEdge(...startsWith('build obj/vendor/...')) returns undefined and the .toBe(...) fails. The one-sided .replaceAll('\\', '/') on src (line 191) shows the intent to run cross-host but leaves the ninja text unnormalized. Fix: normalize the whole ninja text before matching (const out = n.toString().replaceAll('\\', '/')) and drop the one-sided replaceAll on src, or gate this one case with test.skipIf(isWindows).

    Extended reasoning...

    What the bug is

    The final test in test/internal/build-local-deps.test.ts ("a checkout outside the repo compiles in place with no fetch, no stamp, and objects under obj/vendor//") asserts on the exact text of a generated ninja build edge using forward-slash path literals:

    const src = relative(cfg.buildDir, join(checkout, 'src', 'static.c')).replaceAll('\\', '/');
    expect(findEdge(out, l => l.startsWith(`build obj/vendor/mimalloc/src/static.c${cfg.objSuffix}: `))).toBe(
      `build obj/vendor/mimalloc/src/static.c${cfg.objSuffix}: cc ${src} || obj/.dir`,
    );

    The file's header comment says "Configure-time logic only … so this runs on every host" and the test is not gated with skipIf(isWindows). But on a Windows host, every path in the generated build edge uses backslashes, so neither the findEdge predicate nor the .toBe(...) expectation can match.

    The code path

    hostConfig() passes no os override, so on a Windows host resolveConfig() sets cfg.os = 'windows' and cfg.objSuffix = '.obj'. resolveDep() → emitDirect() → cc() emits the compile edge via n.build({...}), and Ninja.build() (ninja.ts:215–219) writes each path through ninjaEscapePath(this.rel(p)).

    • Ninja.rel() (ninja.ts:124–129) is just return relative(this.buildDir, path), importing relative from node:path (not node:path/posix). On Windows this returns backslash-separated paths.
    • ninjaEscapePath() (ninja.ts:354–356) only escapes $, spaces, and :; there is no separator normalization anywhere in the writer.
    • n.toString() (ninja.ts:296–316) just joins the accumulated lines.

    So on a Windows host the emitted line is:

    build obj\vendor\mimalloc\src\static.c.obj: cc ..\mimalloc\src\static.c || obj\.dir
    

    Why existing code doesn't prevent it

    The author was aware of separators — src is normalized with .replaceAll('\\', '/') on line 191 — but that only fixes one operand of the equality. The ninja text itself (the output path obj\vendor\... and the order-only obj\.dir) is left in host form, so:

    1. findEdge(out, l => l.startsWith('build obj/vendor/mimalloc/src/static.c.obj: ')) never matches → returns undefined.
    2. Even if the predicate were fixed, .toBe('build obj/vendor/... || obj/.dir') would compare a backslash line against forward-slash literals.

    The sibling files this test was patterned on avoid the problem by chance: build-post-link-ordering.test.ts only asserts on separator-free basenames (bun-profile, bun.exe), and build-debug-info-flags.test.ts pins os: 'linux'. This is the first test/internal/build-*.test.ts assertion on a multi-segment ninja path.

    The earlier assertion at line 185 (resolved!.objects) is fine on Windows — both sides go through resolve(), which normalizes to the platform separator. Only the ninja-text assertion at lines 192–194 breaks.

    Step-by-step proof (Windows host)

    1. tempDir creates e.g. C:\Users\ci\Temp\build-local-deps-XXXX with mimalloc\src\static.c and mimalloc\include\mimalloc.h.
    2. hostConfig({localDeps: 'mimalloc=<tmp>\mimalloc'}, '<tmp>\build') → resolveConfig detects host OS = windows, cfg.buildDir = '<tmp>\build', cfg.objSuffix = '.obj'. clangTargetArch('/fake/llvm/bin/clang') fails to spawn on Windows and returns undefined, so resolveConfig falls through to host.arch — no throw.
    3. resolveDep(n, cfg, mimalloc, ...) → emitDirect → cc(n, cfg, '<tmp>\mimalloc\src\static.c', ...). objectPath() maps the local-deps checkout onto <repo>\vendor\mimalloc\src\static.c and returns '<tmp>\build\obj\vendor\mimalloc\src\static.c.obj'.
    4. n.build({outputs:[…], rule:'cc', inputs:[…], orderOnlyInputs:['<tmp>\build\obj\.dir']}) calls ninjaEscapePath(this.rel(p)) on each path. rel('<tmp>\build\obj\vendor\mimalloc\src\static.c.obj') = 'obj\vendor\mimalloc\src\static.c.obj'; rel('<tmp>\mimalloc\src\static.c') = '..\mimalloc\src\static.c'; rel('<tmp>\build\obj\.dir') = 'obj\.dir'. ninjaEscapePath passes backslashes through.
    5. n.toString() yields a line build obj\vendor\mimalloc\src\static.c.obj: cc ..\mimalloc\src\static.c || obj\.dir.
    6. findEdge(out, l => l.startsWith('build obj/vendor/mimalloc/src/static.c.obj: ')) iterates every build line; none starts with the forward-slash prefix → returns undefined.
    7. expect(undefined).toBe('build obj/vendor/mimalloc/src/static.c.obj: cc ../mimalloc/src/static.c || obj/.dir') fails.

    Impact

    test/internal/*.test.ts files run on the Windows CI lane — sibling files gate individual cases with test.skipIf(isWindows) (build-rust-toolchain-probe.test.ts:31, rust-windows-sys-link.test.ts:28, source-lints/windows-cross-config.test.ts:77), which would be pointless if the directory were excluded. This new test has no such guard, so merging as-is turns the Windows test lane red.

    How to fix

    Either:

    • Normalize once and match on that: const out = n.toString().replaceAll('\\', '/'); and drop the one-sided .replaceAll on src (line 191). This keeps the assertion running on Windows and matches the file's own "runs on every host" claim.
    • Or gate just this case: test.skipIf(isWindows)("a checkout outside the repo …", …) (import isWindows from "harness"), matching the pattern in build-rust-toolchain-probe.test.ts.

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🟡 lsquic's DirectBuild lists depSourceDir(cfg,'lsqpack')+'/lsqpack.c' as a source, so it lands in directSources and is passed to emitFetch as an implicit output of lsquic's fetch — but with --local-deps that mis-attribution now bites both ways. --local-deps=lsquic=… skips lsquic's emitFetch, so on a fresh checkout vendor/lsqpack/lsqpack.c has no producing rule and ninja fails with "missing and no known rule to make it"; conversely --local-deps=lsqpack=… (via the depSourceDir redirect at line 679) makes lsquic's dep_fetch declare the user's <checkout>/lsqpack.c as an implicit output, so ninja -t clean deletes it from their working tree. Consider filtering directSources to paths under the dep's own srcDir before passing them to emitFetch, and declaring lsqpack.c in lsqpack's own provides.sources so lsqpack's fetch is its producer.

Extended reasoning...

What the bug is

resolveDep() collects every DirectBuild source into directSources and, in the github-archive branch (source.ts:788), hands the whole list to emitFetch as compiledSources, which emitFetch declares as implicitOutputs of the dep's dep_fetch edge. lsquic is the one dep whose sources[] reaches into another dep's tree: deps/lsquic.ts:144 includes depSourceDir(cfg, 'lsqpack') + '/lsqpack.c' (lsqpack itself has build:{kind:'direct', sources:[]} and no provides.sources, so lsqpack's own fetch never declares lsqpack.c as an output). Before this PR that mis-attribution was harmless — the file lived under disposable vendor/lsqpack/ and lsquic's fetch was always emitted. --local-deps breaks both assumptions.

Direction A — --local-deps=lsquic=…: no producer

With lsquic redirected, depSource() returns {kind:'local'}, so resolveDep takes the else branch at line 789 and directSources is discarded — it is only consumed in the github-archive branch. lsqpack's own emitFetch receives compiledSources=[] (empty sources[], no provides.sources), so nothing declares vendor/lsqpack/lsqpack.c as a build output. emitDirect(lsquic) still emits a cc edge with vendor/lsqpack/lsqpack.c as an explicit input and lsqpack's .ref only as an order-only input via fetchDepStamps. Ninja checks explicit inputs at graph-load time: an explicit-input node must either exist on disk or have an in-edge, else it errors with "missing and no known rule to make it" before running anything — order-only doesn't help (it only affects scheduling). This is exactly the invariant the emitFetch comment ("otherwise ninja errors 'missing and no known rule to make it' on fresh checkouts") and picohttpparser.ts:5-8 document.

Direction B — --local-deps=lsqpack=…: wrong producer, in the user's tree

Commit 6c057b7's depSourceDir() change (source.ts:679) makes depSourceDir(cfg,'lsqpack') return the user's checkout path when lsqpack is redirected. lsquic (not redirected) then puts the absolute path /home/me/lsqpack/lsqpack.c into its sources[]; resolve(srcDir, <abs>) returns <abs> unchanged, so it flows into directSources → emitFetch(...,'lsquic',...) → implicitOutputs. build.ninja ends up with build ../../vendor/lsquic/.ref | … /home/me/lsqpack/lsqpack.c: dep_fetch | …. dep_fetch has restat = 1 but not generator = 1, so ninja -t clean iterates edge->outputs_ (which holds explicit + implicit outs) and unlinks the user's checkout file — silent loss of whatever they were iterating on, which is the point of --local-deps. It's also semantically wrong: lsquic's fetch (extract lsquic tarball to vendor/lsquic/) never touches /home/me/lsqpack.

Step-by-step proof (direction A)

  1. bun bd --local-deps=lsquic=~/code/lsquic on a checkout where vendor/lsqpack/ has never been fetched.
  2. parseLocalDeps → cfg.localDeps = { lsquic: '/home/me/code/lsquic' }.
  3. resolveDep(lsqpack): github-archive, buildSpec.sources=[], provides.sources undefined → emitFetch(...,'lsqpack',...,[]) declares no implicit outputs.
  4. resolveDep(lsquic): depSource() sees localDeps.lsquic → returns {kind:'local', path:'/home/me/code/lsquic'}. buildSpec.sources includes vendor/lsqpack/lsqpack.c (lsqpack is not redirected, so depSourceDir returns vendor/lsqpack); directSources = [..., '<repo>/vendor/lsqpack/lsqpack.c']. source.kind !== 'github-archive' → the else branch runs; directSources is never read again.
  5. emitDirect(lsquic) emits build obj/vendor/lsqpack/lsqpack.c.o: cc ../../vendor/lsqpack/lsqpack.c || ../../vendor/lsqpack/.ref ….
  6. Ninja loads the graph: node ../../vendor/lsqpack/lsqpack.c has no in-edge and does not exist on disk → "ninja: error: '../../vendor/lsqpack/lsqpack.c', needed by 'obj/vendor/lsqpack/lsqpack.c.o', missing and no known rule to make it".

Step-by-step proof (direction B)

  1. bun bd --local-deps=lsqpack=/home/me/lsqpack --configure-only.
  2. depSourceDir(cfg,'lsqpack') → /home/me/lsqpack (line 679). lsquic.ts:144 → sources: [..., '/home/me/lsqpack/lsqpack.c'].
  3. resolveDep(lsquic): lsquic not in localDeps → github-archive; directSources.push(resolve('vendor/lsquic', '/home/me/lsqpack/lsqpack.c')) → /home/me/lsqpack/lsqpack.c.
  4. Line 788: emitFetch(n, cfg, 'lsquic', source, patches, [...resolvedSources, '/home/me/lsqpack/lsqpack.c']) → n.build({ outputs:[refStamp], implicitOutputs:['/home/me/lsqpack/lsqpack.c'], rule:'dep_fetch', ... }).
  5. ninja -C build/debug -t clean walks every non-generator edge and removes each entry of edge->outputs_ (implicit outputs included) → /home/me/lsqpack/lsqpack.c is deleted from the user's git checkout.

Why existing safeguards miss it, and impact

validateBunConfig (bun.ts:1157-1183) checks the redirected dep's own name/enabled/build-kind, not deps that reference it via depSourceDir(). objectPath()'s remap (compile.ts:531-538) correctly puts the .o under obj/vendor/lsqpack/ but doesn't touch the fetch edge's implicitOutputs. The follow-up commit's manual verification used --local-deps=lshpack=…, and lshpack is only referenced for -I includes — lsqpack is the sole cross-dep whose source file is compiled by another dep. Impact is dev-tooling only: CI and the shipped binary are unaffected, the primary documented use cases (mimalloc, libuv) work fine, direction A is a loud immediate error with a trivial workaround (build once without the flag first, or also redirect lsqpack), and direction B requires the specific combo of redirecting lsqpack + running raw ninja -t clean — but the direction-B failure mode is silent deletion of user-edited source, and the graph is semantically wrong regardless.

Suggested fix

In resolveDep, only pass the entries of directSources that live under this dep's own srcDir to emitFetch (e.g. directSources.filter(p => p.startsWith(srcDir + sep))) — a dep's dep_fetch should never declare files it does not extract. Separately, add sources: ['lsqpack.c'] to lsqpack's provides so lsqpack's own fetch declares vendor/lsqpack/lsqpack.c as its output; that fixes direction A even when only lsquic is redirected. (Direction B is not fixed by provides.sources alone — with lsqpack redirected to local, lsqpack has no fetch edge — so the srcDir filter is required.)

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const name = entry.slice(0, eq);
let path = entry.slice(eq + 1);
if (path === "~" || path.startsWith("~/")) path = join(homedir(), path.slice(1));

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🟡 The tilde expansion here handles ~ and ~/ but not ~\ — on a Windows host, --local-deps=mimalloc=~\code\mimalloc resolves to <repo>\~\code\mimalloc and fails the existsSync check with a confusing path. The sibling site at scripts/build/deps/webkit.ts:178 already handles all three forms; per REVIEW.md's "fix the whole class — grep for every sibling site sharing the pattern", this should match (or both should share an expandHome() helper).

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What the bug is

parseLocalDeps (scripts/build/config.ts:1454) expands a leading ~ in a --local-deps path with:

if (path === "~" || path.startsWith("~/")) path = join(homedir(), path.slice(1));

This handles the POSIX form only. On a Windows host, where backslash is the native path separator and cmd/PowerShell do not shell-expand ~, a user who types --local-deps=mimalloc=~\code\mimalloc gets no expansion — the string ~\code\mimalloc falls through to resolve(cwd, path) and becomes <repo>\~\code\mimalloc.

The sibling site

scripts/build/deps/webkit.ts:178 performs the same tilde expansion for $BUN_WEBKIT_PATH and already handles all three forms:

if (env === "~" || env.startsWith("~/") || env.startsWith("~\\\\")) return join(homedir(), env.slice(1));

These are the only two ~-expansion sites in scripts/build/. REVIEW.md's "Fix the whole class in the same PR — grep for every sibling site sharing the pattern; prefer moving the guard into the shared helper" applies directly: the new site should either match the established pattern or both sites should call a shared expandHome() helper.

Step-by-step proof

On a Windows host, with --local-deps=mimalloc=~\code\mimalloc:

  1. parseArgs puts overrides.localDeps = "mimalloc=~\\code\\mimalloc".
  2. parseLocalDeps splits on ,, finds eq at index 8, sets name = "mimalloc", path = "~\\code\\mimalloc".
  3. path === "~" → false. path.startsWith("~/") → false (second char is \\, not /). No expansion.
  4. resolve(cwd, "~\\code\\mimalloc") → C:\Users\me\bun\~\code\mimalloc (on Windows, ~ is not special to path.resolve; it's treated as a relative segment).
  5. cfg.localDeps.mimalloc = "C:\\Users\\me\\bun\\~\\code\\mimalloc".
  6. validateBunConfig passes (mimalloc is a known, always-enabled, direct-build dep).
  7. resolveDep → depSource returns {kind:'local', path:'C:\\...\\bun\\~\\code\\mimalloc'}, so srcDir is that path.
  8. Build kind is direct → stampFile = "", sourceStamp = undefined, and the existsSync(sourceStamp ?? stampDir) assert fires with: local dep "mimalloc" source not found at C:\Users\me\bun\~\code\mimalloc.

The user intended C:\Users\me\code\mimalloc. The error message is loud but points at a path with a literal ~ component, which is at least mildly confusing.

Why nothing else prevents it

Nothing between arg parsing and resolveDep normalizes separators or expands ~ — the only expansion is this line. Windows shells don't expand ~ themselves (unlike bash), so the raw string reaches the process argv verbatim.

Impact

Minor. This is dev-only build tooling; the shipped binary and CI are unaffected. The docs, help text, and PR description only advertise the ~/ form (--local-deps=mimalloc=~/code/mimalloc), so a Windows user typing ~\ is off the documented path. The failure is immediate and loud (configure-time error naming a path), not silent misbehavior. But it's an inconsistency with the established sibling site, and REVIEW.md explicitly asks for sibling sites sharing a pattern to be fixed together.

Fix

Match the sibling:

if (path === "~" || path.startsWith("~/") || path.startsWith("~\\\\")) path = join(homedir(), path.slice(1));

Or better — since two call sites now hand-roll the same expansion — extract an expandHome(p: string): string helper (e.g. in config.ts or a small paths.ts) and call it from both parseLocalDeps and webkitSrcDir.

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