Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 00/24] docker/shippable: cross-build mipsel and powerpc targets

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

Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org> writes:

> This patchset add 2 more architectures to the cross-build farm.
>
> There is still some issue trying to cross-build mips64el-softmmu, it seems the
> cross tools use the system outdated libfdt instead of the one checkouted in the
> dtc submodule. I disabled this target for now.
>
> The branch https://github.com/philmd/qemu/tree/docker_shippable_v5 can be
> checked at Shippable:
>   https://app.shippable.com/github/philmd/qemu/status/dashboard
>
> Each arch builds in around ~9min. Using Shippable free open source projects
> service, the 5 jobs take ~38-44min in total.

Fam,

Are you picking this up or shall I roll a pull-req?

>
> v5:
> - Addressed minor review feedback from Alex/Fam (improving a comment)
> - Added Alex R-b
>
> v4:
> - Addressed review feedbacks from Fam (improving english, cleaner hashing)
> - Added Alex R-b
>
> v3:
> - Addressed review feedbacks from Fam:
> - Keep building images in various layers, but use DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
> - Document '--extra-files', now it supports adding various files at once
> - Checksum extra files to trigger a docker image rebuild if modified
> - Use better regex to generate deb-src entries
> - Reordered extra libs, to ease further add/remove diffs
>
> v2:
> - Addressed review feedback from Alex, added his R-B
> - Fixed the "Problem with the SSL CA cert" problem while cloning from github.com
>   installing the ca-certificates package.
> - Squashed/split some commits
> - use 'apt-get clean' instead of brutal 'rm -rf'
> - checked how many cores are available on Shippable and use them fully
>   (reduced total time from 44min to 38min)
> - build armeb-linux-user target
>
> v1:
> - Reorganize Dockerfiles to use less layers, resulting in smaller images.
>   This also reduce time of image transfer, for example while using:
>   `docker save qemu:debian | ssh remote docker load`
> - Install more debian packages so the configure script enable more features and
>   more code can be compiled/covered.
> - There are still some incorrect multiarch packages on debian/jessie used in
>   the docker images, add a script to generate fake packages and avoid
>   dependencies issues.
> - Modify the docker.py script to include an extra file while building images.
>
> Regards,
>
> Phil.
>
> Philippe Mathieu-Daudé (24):
>   docker: let _copy_with_mkdir() sub_path argument be optional
>   docker: add --include-files argument to 'build' command
>   docker: rebuild image if 'extra files' checksum does not match
>   docker: add 'apt-fake' script which generate fake debian packages
>   docker: install ca-certificates package in base image
>   docker: create deb-src entry and setup Emdebian in the same layer
>   docker: use better regex to generate deb-src entries
>   docker: use eatmydata, install common build packages in base image
>   docker: use eatmydata in debian armhf image
>   docker: use eatmydata in debian arm64 image
>   docker: add extra libs to armhf target to extend codebase coverage
>   docker: add extra libs to arm64 target to extend codebase coverage
>   docker: add extra libs to s390x target to extend codebase coverage
>   docker: add mipsel build target
>   docker: add powerpc build target
>   shippable: use C locale to simplify console output
>   shippable: build using all available cpus
>   shippable: do not initialize submodules automatically
>   shippable: be verbose while building docker images
>   shippable: add armeb-linux-user target
>   shippable: add powerpc target
>   shippable: add mipsel target
>   MAINTAINERS: add Shippable automation platform URL
>   MAINTAINERS: self-appoint me as reviewer in build/test automation
>
>  .shippable.yml                                     | 23 +++++++++--
>  MAINTAINERS                                        |  2 +
>  tests/docker/Makefile.include                      |  8 ++++
>  tests/docker/docker.py                             | 30 ++++++++++----
>  tests/docker/dockerfiles/debian-apt-fake.sh        | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  tests/docker/dockerfiles/debian-arm64-cross.docker | 18 ++++++++-
>  tests/docker/dockerfiles/debian-armhf-cross.docker | 18 ++++++++-
>  .../docker/dockerfiles/debian-mipsel-cross.docker  | 41 +++++++++++++++++++
>  .../docker/dockerfiles/debian-powerpc-cross.docker | 40 +++++++++++++++++++
>  tests/docker/dockerfiles/debian-s390x-cross.docker | 10 +++++
>  tests/docker/dockerfiles/debian.docker             | 18 +++++----
>  11 files changed, 232 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100755 tests/docker/dockerfiles/debian-apt-fake.sh
>  create mode 100644 tests/docker/dockerfiles/debian-mipsel-cross.docker
>  create mode 100644 tests/docker/dockerfiles/debian-powerpc-cross.docker


--
Alex Bennée