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fa1b139d17d04cb23bdfb1dd9c2abcdad4bdcd27 Bump python minimum supported version to 3.10 (MarcoFalke) Pull request description: All supported operating systems ship with python 3.10 (or later), so bumping the minimum should not cause any issues. A bump will allow new code to use new python features. For reference: * https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/python3 * https://packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/python3 * FreeBSD 13/14 ships with 3.11 * CentOS-like 8/9 ships with 3.11/3.12 (via `appstream`) * OpenSuse Tumbleweed ships with all python versions, e.g. https://software.opensuse.org/package/python312-base This is for Bitcoin Core 29.0 in 2025 (next year), not the soon upcoming 28.0 this fall. ACKs for top commit: achow101: ACK fa1b139d17d04cb23bdfb1dd9c2abcdad4bdcd27 AngusP: ACK fa1b139d17d04cb23bdfb1dd9c2abcdad4bdcd27 l0rinc: ACK fa1b139d17d04cb23bdfb1dd9c2abcdad4bdcd27 stickies-v: ACK fa1b139d17d04cb23bdfb1dd9c2abcdad4bdcd27 Tree-SHA512: 910b202ff2374bb21c93e5249a151fd2c8f63759bed5659676b0e467afa6e8e977be797c3fccceca303c82575e11ec236a8d7c5880910e4314b3875b820e7e8a
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.