fabefd9915802d53d8c83ae66e5cb259196d9422 ci: Turn CentOS task into native one (MarcoFalke) Pull request description: Cross-compiling to `i686-pc-linux-gnu` on CentOS in the CI is mostly redundant with the `ci/test/00_setup_env_i686_multiprocess.sh` task (albeit it using clang):35bf426e02/ci/test/00_setup_env_i686_multiprocess.sh (L9-L12)
One task seems sufficient as a sanity check, given that there seems to be no real demand for this architecture anyway. Turning the task into a native one makes it possible to run the task natively on aarch64 or any other supported architecture. Also, remove the install of the `lbzip2` package, which is unused since commit a46065e36cf868265c909dc5edf29dc17be53c1f Also, remove the `CONFIG_SHELL` env var, which is unused since the cmake migration. (`CONFIG_SHELL` in depends is still kept). ACKs for top commit: davidgumberg: ACKfabefd9915
hebasto: ACK fabefd9915802d53d8c83ae66e5cb259196d9422, tested locally on Ubuntu 24.10. Tree-SHA512: 5a7b3131b379d11ef602e5821165861e9bdf61d605014bf8fcb33b8e12d8823450798af2d3289b96f7559dfa47b839bf939ddc0b3725efecfeac7ae570a981e7
CI Scripts
This directory contains scripts for each build step in each build stage.
Running a Stage Locally
Be aware that the tests will be built and run in-place, so please run at your own risk. If the repository is not a fresh git clone, you might have to clean files from previous builds or test runs first.
The ci needs to perform various sysadmin tasks such as installing packages or writing to the user's home directory. While it should be fine to run the ci system locally on you development box, the ci scripts can generally be assumed to have received less review and testing compared to other parts of the codebase. If you want to keep the work tree clean, you might want to run the ci system in a virtual machine with a Linux operating system of your choice.
To allow for a wide range of tested environments, but also ensure reproducibility to some extent, the test stage
requires bash
, docker
, and python3
to be installed. To run on different architectures than the host qemu
is also required. To install all requirements on Ubuntu, run
sudo apt install bash docker.io python3 qemu-user-static
It is recommended to run the ci system in a clean env. To run the test stage with a specific configuration,
env -i HOME="$HOME" PATH="$PATH" USER="$USER" bash -c 'FILE_ENV="./ci/test/00_setup_env_arm.sh" ./ci/test_run_all.sh'
Configurations
The test files (FILE_ENV
) are constructed to test a wide range of
configurations, rather than a single pass/fail. This helps to catch build
failures and logic errors that present on platforms other than the ones the
author has tested.
Some builders use the dependency-generator in ./depends
, rather than using
the system package manager to install build dependencies. This guarantees that
the tester is using the same versions as the release builds, which also use
./depends
.
It is also possible to force a specific configuration without modifying the file. For example,
env -i HOME="$HOME" PATH="$PATH" USER="$USER" bash -c 'MAKEJOBS="-j1" FILE_ENV="./ci/test/00_setup_env_arm.sh" ./ci/test_run_all.sh'
The files starting with 0n
(n
greater than 0) are the scripts that are run
in order.
Cache
In order to avoid rebuilding all dependencies for each build, the binaries are cached and reused when possible. Changes in the dependency-generator will trigger cache-invalidation and rebuilds as necessary.