fix(ci): normalize Windows temp path before tar

[proggeramlug]

Summary

• convert the native Windows RUNNER_TEMP value with cygpath before passing it to curl, ar, and Unix file tests
• remove the ineffective GNU --force-local workaround from the Windows native-roots arm
• keep the post-extraction LLVM pair verification and improve its paths

The current failure is ar (child): Cannot connect to D: resolve failed: the Windows runner's tar parses D: as a remote host. A /d/... path avoids that grammar entirely.

Validation

• parsed the workflow as YAML
• exercised the exact quoted cygpath -u conversion under Git for Windows against a native C:... path
• git diff --check

No version bump.

Refs #7970

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved Windows build setup by correctly handling temporary directory paths when downloading and extracting LLVM.
  • Fixed archive extraction verification to report the correct normalized location.
  • Removed an ineffective workaround that could interfere with local archive handling.

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• .github/workflows/gc-native-roots.yml

📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The Windows LLVM setup converts RUNNER_TEMP to POSIX format before constructing paths, downloading the archive, and extracting it. It removes tar --force-local and continues to verify that opt.exe exists.

Changes

Windows LLVM path handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Normalize LLVM setup paths .github/workflows/gc-native-roots.yml	The workflow uses cygpath to normalize RUNNER_TEMP, applies the result to LLVM paths and archive extraction, removes --force-local, and reports the normalized archive location during verification.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Mergeability Score: 🟡 Moderate · up to 721e3

The Windows workflow may still fail to locate the extracted LLVM tools because native executables receive Unix-style paths instead of Windows paths. Merge should wait until those environment variables use Windows-formatted paths.

Suggested reviewers: jdalton

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes normalizing the Windows temporary path before tar processes it.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the cause, changes, related issue, validation steps, and version policy impact.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
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Inline comments:
In @.github/workflows/gc-native-roots.yml:
- Around line 341-342: Update the workflow’s environment setup around llvm_bin
so PERRY_LLVM_OPT and PERRY_LLVM_CLANG are exported using cygpath -w
Windows-formatted paths, while retaining llvm_bin’s POSIX path for shell
commands.

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[proggeramlug]

Audited exact commit 721e391. Converting RUNNER_TEMP to a POSIX path fixes curl/tar parsing, but the same POSIX /d/... path is then exported in PERRY_LLVM_OPT and PERRY_LLVM_CLANG. Those are environment values, so Git Bash does not perform argument path conversion when native perry.exe reads them; Rust turns them directly into PathBufs and checks/spawns them, where /d/... is not the extracted D:\... path. Keep POSIX paths for shell tools, but export cygpath -w forms for the two variables consumed by Perry, and validate both shell invocation and native-process resolution. This should also reconcile the stale --force-local status text introduced by #8018. I have not merged this head.

[proggeramlug]

Re-audited exact head 9f2e2ae. The archive/extraction path remains POSIX for curl, bsdtar, and direct shell tool probes, while PERRY_LLVM_OPT and PERRY_LLVM_CLANG are now separately exported in native Windows form for perry.exe PathBuf resolution. That closes the prior host/path-domain mismatch. The workflow parses with actionlint; it still reports the pre-existing script findings plus two SC2155 warnings on the new export-with-command-substitution lines, but those do not change the resolved values or the functional path contract. Exact head merges cleanly with current main. No functional blocker found.