Re: [PATCH v2 7/7] gitlab-ci: Add cross-compiling build tests

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 01:17:57PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> Now that we can use all our QEMU test containers in the gitlab-CI, we can
> easily add some jobs that test cross-compilation for various architectures.
> There is just only small ugliness: Since the shared runners on gitlab.com
> are single-threaded, we have to split each compilation job into two parts
> (--disable-user and --disable-system), and exclude some additional targets,
> to avoid that the jobs are running too long and hitting the timeout of 1 h.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> ---
>  .gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds.yml | 113 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  .gitlab-ci.yml               |   1 +
>  MAINTAINERS                  |   1 +
>  3 files changed, 115 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 .gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds.yml

Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>

> 
> diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds.yml b/.gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds.yml
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..4ec7226b5c
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/.gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds.yml
> @@ -0,0 +1,113 @@
> +
> +.cross_system_build_job_template: &cross_system_build_job_definition
> +  stage: build
> +  image: $CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE/qemu/$IMAGE:latest
> +  script:
> +    - mkdir build
> +    - cd build
> +    - PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
> +      ../configure --enable-werror $QEMU_CONFIGURE_OPTS --disable-user
> +        --target-list-exclude="aarch64-softmmu i386-softmmu 
> microblaze-softmmu
> +          mips-softmmu mipsel-softmmu mips64-softmmu ppc64-softmmu 
> sh4-softmmu
> +          xtensa-softmmu"

What does this leave enabled ?  Would it be shorter to just say
--target-list="...explicit targets we want..." ?  It would be clearer
to review at least.

> +    - make -j$(expr $(nproc) + 1) all check-build

None the less, it is functionally fine so

Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>



Regards,
Daniel
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