Re: [PATCH v3 00/17] testing: various docker clean-ups post meson tcg conversion

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> writes:

> On 9/15/26 22:53, Alex Bennée wrote:
>> This cleans up a few bits and pieces although doesn't totally solve
>> the issue of an apparent stall while meson builds the docker image.
>> However with these changes there should be no difference between the
>> meson build and the equivalent "make docker-image-foo" invocation.
>> We also finally get rid of the ill-advised magic caching support in
>> docker.py.
>> v3
>>   - Update make2test to trigger docker build from Makefile.include.
>>   - add Daniels's suggested console: true patch
>>   - fixed up some unref vars from the reverts
>> v2
>> I've restored the configure based compiler checks for so we can
>> build
>> roms and the vdso blobs again. It looks like we could never build roms
>> with container based images so I've left it for now. Unlike the vdso
>> build we can't trigger a container build through Makefile.prereqs.
>> TODO
>> ----
>> I've still got Ilya's s390 test image patches to look at but I'm
>> sending v2 because enough people are hitting issues.
>> I also need to look at the timestamp stuff that Pierrick has
>> suggested
>> to see if that improves the caching from the registry.
>> The following still need review:
>>    tests/tcg: add console property to docker image custom target
>>    scripts/make2mtest: add docker dependencies for check-tcg-% targets
>>    tests/docker: fix brown bag typo for docker-ccache
>>    tests/docker: swap --quiet for --verbose
>>    tests/docker: add container registry to configure and use
>>    tests/tcg: use --add-current-user when building containers
>>    configure: re-purpose the tcg test compiler configs for vdso building
>>    Revert "tests/tcg/meson.build: implement ./configure -cross-cc-* options"
>
> Still missing 20260915110855.491985-1-iii@linux.ibm.com
> ("[PATCH] tests/tcg: Fix building outside of the source tree")
>
> which is second behind --disable-containers in my current pain points.

Both those and the SKIP issue are addressed in v4.

>
>
> r~

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Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro