Set JULIA_PROJECT when running the subprocess in ensurecompiled()

[DilumAluthge]

Suppose that you have two different projects, where one project contains the packages that will go into the sysimage, and the other project is a "build project".

As an example, consider the examples/MyLib folder in this repo:

• The examples/MyLib/Project.toml is the "main project" that contains the packages that will go into the sysimage.
• The examples/MyLib/build/Project.toml is the "build project". The packages in the "build project" will not go into the sysimage. In this example, the "build project" contains Libdl and PackageCompiler, but neither of those will go into the sysimage.

When the ensurecompiled() function is run, we want to make sure that it precompiles the "main project", not the "build project". That's what this PR does.

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[KristofferC]

I would have think this is already the case from the existing code? Do you have something like an MWE where it isn't?

julia> Base.active_project()
"/home/kc/JuliaPkgs/PackageCompiler.jl/examples/MyLib/build/Project.toml"

julia> project = ".."
".."

julia> run(addenv(`$(Base.julia_cmd()) -e '@show Base.load_path()'`, "JULIA_LOAD_PATH" => "$project:@stdlib"));
Base.load_path() = ["/home/kc/JuliaPkgs/PackageCompiler.jl/examples/MyLib/Project.toml", "/home/kc/.julia/juliaup/julia-1.10.6+0.x64.linux.gnu/share/julia/stdlib/v1.10"]

[DilumAluthge]

Good question. I haven't been able to come up with a MWE. I'm encountering some kind of problem (that I thought was JULIA_PROJECT-related) when I try to move the build-mylib test into the PackageCompiler test suite (instead of having it as a separate CI job). That's what I've been trying in #991.

[DilumAluthge]

Okay, so I do have an example where things don't seem to work unless I have this JULIA_PROJECT change.

In #991, I'm working on moving the build-mylib test into the regular test suite (and thus get rid of the separate build-mylib CI job).

In that PR, if I don't have this JULIA_PROJECT change, then CI fails (see 8308cf8, e.g. this example log) with the following:

ERROR: The following 1 direct dependency failed to precompile:

PackageCompiler [9b87118b-4619-50d2-8e1e-99f35a4d4d9d]

Error: Missing source file for PackageCompiler [9b87118b-4619-50d2-8e1e-99f35a4d4d9d

However, when I add this JULIA_PROJECT change, then CI passes (see f4bdaaf).

The only difference between the two commits (f4bdaaf and 8308cf8) is the JULIA_PROJECT change, same as this PR.