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* tests: keep source dir clean

* ci: make first build inplace

* ci: drop dev setting (wasn't doing anything)

* tests: warn if source directory is dirty

* feat: FindPython support

* refactor: rename to PYBIND11_FINDPYTHON

* docs: Caps fixes

* feat: NOPYTHON mode

* test: check simple call

* docs: add changelog/upgrade guide

* feat: Support Python3 and Python2

* refactor: Use targets in tests

* fix: support CMake 3.4+

* feat: classic search also finds virtual environments

* docs: some updates from @wjakob's review

* fix: wrong name for QUIET mode variable, reported by @skoslowski

* refactor: cleaner output messaging

* fix: support debug Python's in FindPython mode too

* fixup! refactor: cleaner output messaging

* fix: missing pybind11_FOUND and pybind11_INCLUDE_DIR restored to subdir mode

* fix: nicer reporting of Python / PyPy

* fix: out-of-order variable fix

* docs: minor last-minute cleanup

fix: include PYTHON_IS_DEBUG

* Fix segfault when reloading interpreter with external modules

When embedding the interpreter and loading external modules in that
embedded interpreter, the external module correctly shares its
internals_ptr with the one in the embedded interpreter.  When the
interpreter is shut down, however, only the `internals_ptr` local to
the embedded code is actually reset to nullptr: the external module
remains set.

The result is that loading an external pybind11 module, letting the
interpreter go through a finalize/initialize, then attempting to use
something in the external module fails because this external module is
still trying to use the old (destroyed) internals.  This causes
undefined behaviour (typically a segfault).

This commit fixes it by adding a level of indirection in the internals
path, converting the local internals variable to `internals **` instead
of `internals *`.  With this change, we can detect a stale internals
pointer and reload the internals pointer (either from a capsule or by
creating a new internals instance).

(No issue number: this was reported on gitter by @henryiii and @aoloe).

- For the debian/buster docker build (GCC 7/C++17) install and use the
  system `catch` package; this also renames "COMPILER_PACKAGES" to
  "EXTRA_PACKAGES" since it now contains a non-compiler package.

- Add a status message indicating the catch version being used for
  compiling the embedded tests

- Simplify some bash code by using VAR+=" foo" to append (rather than
  VAR="${VAR} foo"

- Fix CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH appending: it was prepending the ':' but not
  the existing $CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH value and so would end up with
  ":/eigen-path" if CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH was already set.  (This wasn't
  bug that was actually noticed since currently nothing else sets it).

Fixes a race condition when multiple threads try to acquire the GIL
before `detail::internals` have been initialized. `gil_scoped_release`
is now tasked with initializing `internals` (guaranteed single-threaded)
to ensure the safety of subsequent `acquire` calls from multiple threads.

At this point, there is only a single test for interpreter basics.

Apart from embedding itself, having a C++ test framework will also
benefit the C++-side features by allowing them to be tested directly.