Register the request object in the installer so that the utility functions...

Register the request object in the installer so that the utility functions that now depend on it work.

core/includes/install.core.inc

@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 use Drupal\Core\Database\Database;
 use Drupal\Core\Database\Install\TaskException;
 
+use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;
+
 /**
  * @file
  * API functions for installing Drupal.
@@ -261,6 +263,14 @@ function install_begin_request(&$install_state) {
 
   drupal_bootstrap(DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_CONFIGURATION);
 
+  // A request object from the HTTPFoundation to tell us about the request.
+  $request = Request::createFromGlobals();
+
+  // Set the global $request object.  This is a temporary measure to
+  // keep legacy utility functions working.  It should be moved to a dependency
+  // injection container at some point.
+  request($request);
+
   // This must go after drupal_bootstrap(), which unsets globals!
   global $conf;